Hi everyone - from the Garden of England

Just bought our first Octavia a week ago - veeery impressed. Not an expensive buy - 1.9 non-turbo diesel £1495 on a V plate with 100k on the clock & the bodywork hasn't been particularly looked after.

One problem - when changing down it's reluctant, to say the least, to go into 2nd from 3rd. Is this a known fault that develops? If so, is it likely to be in the gearbox or is there some linkage between the gearchange lever & the box that could be the source of the problem?

Or something else?

Chaning up's smooth & the clutch doesn't come in early so I don't think that's dragging.

My thoughts are: If it's in the box it's likely to cost more to fix than we paid for the car so add something like Slick 50 to the oil, see if that improves it & run it until it packs up altogether. Then get it sorted.

If it's a linkage problem, that's probably cheaper.

Thanks in advance.

Ian