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Can't move the gearstick into second from higher gears?

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It happened fairly suddenly, I was never hard with the gears, smooth changes etc and about last week I started having an issue with second gear. Sometimes when I'm coming from a higher gear, I can't shift the gear stick into the second gear position, like something is in the way and I'm scared of snapping it. Goes in smoothly from first and usually when I double clutch, sometimes have to do it again because its still stuck. Any ideas? 

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    More than likely the synchro is failing, not uncommon on these, especially 2nd. 

    If you rev match (high revs as dropping from a higher gear) then it'll probably slot in ok, or double declutch as you have been doing. 

    Can be repaired at a transmission specialist, or replaced with a used box, (although that may be just as bad).

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    do reckon repairing it is expensive? read somewhere it could just be the transmission fluid, the car has 85k miles so it might be worthwile to check that before going to a shop, unless that's incorrect then I'll take it to a transmission specialist on monday 

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    12 minutes ago, Ghggggg said:

    do reckon repairing it is expensive? read somewhere it could just be the transmission fluid, the car has 85k miles so it might be worthwile to check that before going to a shop, unless that's incorrect then I'll take it to a transmission specialist on monday 

    Personally I'd take it straight to a trans specialist to ask their opinion.  They may suggest a fluid change first, but it's very unlikely that old gear old would only affect one gear in this way. 

    It won't be a cheap fix if it is the synchro unfortunately.  Looking at a few hundred for repair, plus a few hours labour to remove and refit the 'box, and while it's out it'd be worth replacing the clutch at the same time. 

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    what do you think the total cost would be? It's my first car so I have no idea how much it would be at all.. I'm also not exactly swimming in money at the moment so could driving like this break any other components/be dangerous at all? 

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    If you can escape from the garage with the gearbox repaired and the clutch replaced for under £1000 you have done well !!

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