RoryW
New Member
Hi all,
Ive been running a lovely little A2 for the last 20k and its been faultless.
Pulled onto a roundabout couple weeks ago, went for 2nd and the gearstick became solid. Not even able to wiggle to indicate neutral. I could however pull it down into 4th, if I let go it would ping straight back up and lose drive. Limped it into the lay-by.
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Went back and tried resetting the cables, assuming that's usually the issue with gear selection on the little bugs. No joy.
I ended up disconnecting cables, I can then select gear (Manually on the box) and it holds well in gear. Locked into 3rd, managed to get it home sat in gear (Manually selected on box basically)
I reset the cables again the next day, I get movement now, sometimes its get into gear but usually jumps out.
Decided to check the selector tower out. Moves ok, doesn't seem too bad to be honest, I'm kind of lost now. Anything else I should look at before forking out 300£ for a new tower? is there a trick to the cable calibration on the older, longer mileage cars?
Im not in immediate despair, but genuinely cannot afford to daily an M3. Im not sure how I did it for so long
Ive been running a lovely little A2 for the last 20k and its been faultless.
Pulled onto a roundabout couple weeks ago, went for 2nd and the gearstick became solid. Not even able to wiggle to indicate neutral. I could however pull it down into 4th, if I let go it would ping straight back up and lose drive. Limped it into the lay-by.
Link
Went back and tried resetting the cables, assuming that's usually the issue with gear selection on the little bugs. No joy.
I ended up disconnecting cables, I can then select gear (Manually on the box) and it holds well in gear. Locked into 3rd, managed to get it home sat in gear (Manually selected on box basically)
I reset the cables again the next day, I get movement now, sometimes its get into gear but usually jumps out.
Decided to check the selector tower out. Moves ok, doesn't seem too bad to be honest, I'm kind of lost now. Anything else I should look at before forking out 300£ for a new tower? is there a trick to the cable calibration on the older, longer mileage cars?
Im not in immediate despair, but genuinely cannot afford to daily an M3. Im not sure how I did it for so long
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