sarah
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Registered: 6th Jun 06
Location: Huddersfield
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Help, when i put my gears into reverse it makes the most aweful grating noise (so embarasing) i've been starting car in gear to stop this, what can it be and what can i do to stop it. Also having trouble changing gears been nearly at the point of breaking the gear stick trying to get it into gear i need. Its not a women thing either as had boyfriend driving it and it happens with him. Car is a corsa B by the way.
Please help!
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DarkBahamut
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Registered: 4th Jun 06
Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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Reverse gear grinding is common on most manual gear boxes as reverse doesnt have a syncro (make sure your at a full stop before selecting reverse, sometimes deselecting and reselecting a forward gear before selecting reverse can help). However if all your gears are difficult to engage then you could have a clutch problem.
[Edited on 18-07-2006 by DarkBahamut]
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Dave A
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probably needs the linkage seting up first. see if that helps.
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Ry_B
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I had/have this problem. Way round it is:
Make sure you are totally stopped when you select reverse. If you are moving a slight bit forwards it happens a lot more.
Press the clutch in then out once or twice before you select reverse, duno why but that fixes it
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Wad_2002
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Registered: 26th Feb 06
Location: Falkirk
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mite just need the clutch adjusted thts wot happened to mines
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Kyle T
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Registered: 11th Sep 04
Location: Selby, North Yorkshire
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Reset the gear linkage, doesn't take long and is worth a try.
It solved my issues with hard to select gears.
http://corsasport.co.uk/board/viewthread.php?tid=133496
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Toby
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Registered: 29th Nov 05
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is the biting point of the clutch on the floor and the pedal a lot closer than it used to be if so might just need the cluctch cable tigthening, did mine otherday
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Sly_SRi
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Registered: 9th Apr 04
Location: Reading, UK Drives: Corsa C
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yea, if you have a very low biting point then its likely that the clutch cable has stretched and needs adjusting
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