Hi everyone,

I have a 2013 Fiesta Zetec S and recently I’ve started to hear a squeak coming from the gear stick, it sounds like it’s coming from one of the linkages, I mainly hear it when I go up and down and never when I go across? Anyone have any ideas what this could be? Maybe a little grease or should I get it checked out?

Thanks 

Lift up gear gator and spray linkages with a little wd40 or ptfe spray(dry) , should solve the squeak.

35 minutes ago, Gazcaz said:

Lift up gear gator and spray linkages with a little wd40 or ptfe spray(dry) , should solve the squeak.

I had a little can of silicons grease knocking about and sprayed that on it didn’t really do much maybe WD40 should do the trick thanks!

Your problem might lay at the gear cable linkages/selector at the gearbox and the creaking noise is being transmitted from the gearbox to the gear lever ?

To access these cables & pivots first pop your bonnet and then remove all the air filter box & pipes, then look down at the gearbox and you'll see a black plastic cover, this is simply clipped on, 6 clips lock onto the gearbox casing, when the cover is off, have a good look at the cables & pivots, if it's like most Fiesta's everything will have dried up and gone rusty, you need someone in the car and get them to go through all the gears and you blast everything with WD40, most likely the noise will go and changing gear will become much easier, after spraying the WD40, allow it to dry up, then spray on some thicker/silicone type oil, then refit the plastic cover and airbox.

Cover and selector linkages looks like these....

3 hours ago, Ian Lanc said:

Your problem might lay at the gear cable linkages/selector at the gearbox and the creaking noise is being transmitted from the gearbox to the gear lever ?

To access these cables & pivots first pop your bonnet and then remove all the air filter box & pipes, then look down at the gearbox and you'll see a black plastic cover, this is simply clipped on, 6 clips lock onto the gearbox casing, when the cover is off, have a good look at the cables & pivots, if it's like most Fiesta's everything will have dried up and gone rusty, you need someone in the car and get them to go through all the gears and you blast everything with WD40, most likely the noise will go and changing gear will become much easier, after spraying the WD40, allow it to dry up, then spray on some thicker/silicone type oil, then refit the plastic cover and airbox.

Cover and selector linkages looks like these....

I see thanks for ur response! Is this for  an older fiesta? As I had looked online before just to quickly check and I noticed most of the guys with similar suggestions like urs it applied to the older fiestas, as some of the parts shown in pics were different to how my gear box and linkage/selector looked, I will have a look at the gearbox end like you have suggested as I hadn’t thought of that and will update!

Cheers

4 hours ago, Rundle123 said:

 Is this for an older fiesta? 

The pics look like my gearbox linkages which is a 1.4 petrol on a 10 plate, pics just to help you see what might be the problem.

1 hour ago, Ian Lanc said:

The pics look like my gearbox linkages which is a 1.4 petrol on a 10 plate, pics just to help you see what might be the problem.

Okay thanks for the help!

2 hours ago, Ian Lanc said:

The pics look like my gearbox linkages which is a 1.4 petrol on a 10 plate, pics just to help you see what might be the problem.

Forgot I had a photo of them, this is what mine looks like the joint the arrow is pointing to seems like wheeler the noise is coming from I don’t think the grease done much the gears do move a bit more free but still hearing the noise 

19 hours ago, Rundle123 said:

Forgot I had a photo of them, this is what mine looks like the joint the arrow is pointing to seems like wheeler the noise is coming from I don’t think the grease done much the gears do move a bit more free but still hearing the noise 

Did you get someone in the car to keep going through the gears as you blasted the cable with WD40 ?

1 hour ago, Ian Lanc said:

Did you get someone in the car to keep going through the gears as you blasted the cable with WD40 ?

I haven’t had the chance for someone else to go through the gears for me I’ve only tried it myself as I can spray them whilst changing them too, I’m not really sure if the grease is getting right in the joint.

19 hours ago, Rundle123 said:

I haven’t had the chance for someone else to go through the gears for me I’ve only tried it myself as I can spray them whilst changing them too, I’m not really sure if the grease is getting right in the joint.

I got the missus to go daft changing the gears whilst I blasted at the cables, also pointing upwards to go by the rubber seal! Actually thought she was having an ***** or a seizure .....lol

Just now, Ian Lanc said:

I got the missus to go daft changing the gears whilst I blasted at the cables, also pointing upwards to go by the rubber seal! Actually thought she was having an orgassm or a seizure .....lol

 

On 1/28/2020 at 3:23 PM, Ian Lanc said:

I got the missus to go daft changing the gears whilst I blasted at the cables, also pointing upwards to go by the rubber seal! Actually thought she was having an ***** or a seizure .....lol

Will give that a blast then! Appreciate the help!