Fiesta 1.6D Mk7 Gear Problems

[oobie]

Hi!

Im new to this forum,and also non-english.. Im from Sweden :)

Car : Ford Fiesta 1.6D, 7800 miles.

Well then, to the problem im having on my car.

Im having a hard time getting into First, Third and Fifth gear,

it worked fine when i was driving non-stop for 2 hours, including

lots of gear changes, then it stood over night.

With engine running : The gears do engage when i gently push and "find" them and push the gearstick

softly in to them, the feeling of the stick is distorted when jerking it around when

the clutch is down.

When i Engage a gear and let the clutch up, it crunches to

let me know i havent eganged it properly...

Sometimes it does feel like normal, oddly enough..

When engine off : It feels just as it is supposed to feel.

What could possibly be the problem?

Im thinking gear linkage, what am i supposed to look after?

[Magenta]

Hi!

Im new to this forum,and also non-english.. Im from Sweden :)

Car : Ford Fiesta 1.6D, 7800 miles.

Well then, to the problem im having on my car.

Im having a hard time getting into First, Third and Fifth gear,

it worked fine when i was driving non-stop for 2 hours, including

lots of gear changes, then it stood over night.

With engine running : The gears do engage when i gently push and "find" them and push the gearstick

softly in to them, the feeling of the stick is distorted when jerking it around when

the clutch is down.

When i Engage a gear and let the clutch up, it crunches to

let me know i havent eganged it properly...

Sometimes it does feel like normal, oddly enough..

When engine off : It feels just as it is supposed to feel.

What could possibly be the problem?

Im thinking gear linkage, what am i supposed to look after?

I had a problem with the gears on my Mk 7 1.6TDCI at a very early mileage. It was the gear linkage which came completely adrift and left me stuck at the side of the road. The AA came and fixed it temporarily and the patrolman said that it was a known problem on the Mk 7 that Ford were aware of. He escorted me to my local Ford dealer who checked the car and said there was nothing wrong other than the gear linkage had probably not been assembled correctly in the first place. I would get your Ford dealer to check it out. Hope this helps.

I've now changed to a Fiesta Auto but for other reasons !

[oobie]

I had a problem with the gears on my Mk 7 1.6TDCI at a very early mileage. It was the gear linkage which came completely adrift and left me stuck at the side of the road. The AA came and fixed it temporarily and the patrolman said that it was a known problem on the Mk 7 that Ford were aware of. He escorted me to my local Ford dealer who checked the car and said there was nothing wrong other than the gear linkage had probably not been assembled correctly in the first place. I would get your Ford dealer to check it out. Hope this helps.

I've now changed to a Fiesta Auto but for other reasons !

Okok, thanks!

I really really hope that it only is the gear linkage.

Im going to let them check it out :)

I will post what my problem was, just wrote this post

to be sure that it wasn't a common gearbox-problem

"just" a gear linkage problem :)

[oobie]

Took the problem in my own hands, read for quite a while and saw others mentioning the linkage..

It was the gear linkage, the upper/left one, seen from the front, it had popped out of it's so called bracket...

Idiot-engineers that designed it.

I took away the :

battery,

battery-box,

plate under battery,

the whole air-filter box,

the black plastic cap that is over the Linkage.

The cap also had popped out because the linkage had left its bracket and pushed it out of place.

Really easy to fix, if you can screw and unscrew nuts and bolts.. ^_^

Took about 1 hour to sort out.

I did take pictures and tried to upload but "My Media" can't seem to find them...