Reversal Of Fortune !

[Steve S.]

Hi One and All,

Well, after a period of more or less trouble free motoring, I suspect that nasty character "Big Bill" is about to put in an appearance.I left a job today, and with the intention of doing a " three point turn" turned into a street , selected reverse....nothing but revving engine! Fortunately I was able to go round the block forwards and got home ok. Any ideas what has befallen the old warhorse? Forward gears are all selected normally, I tried the reverse when the engine had cooled but still no joy.( AG4 Auto by the way.) I plugged in my Gendan code reader which threw up the following:

028C....Gear monitoring VAG code 00652

463A....Engine control unit blocked VAG code 17978

Needless to say, this doesn't make any sense to me either...anyone?

To be fair the box has been playing up lately, a bit of slippage, whistles and squeaks on some up changes, "cattle grid " effect, and a delay in reverse selection (now permanent it would appear!) so it was only a matter of time. I'd been to two auto box specialists for advice and they both said it was knackered or nearly so but would probably last a bit longer than it has. Anyway, I've provisionally booked it in at Eddie Rose (Mansfield) but he can't do it for a week so really I'm stuck for a bit...I wonder how far you can drive without the need to reverse.Actually nowhere in my case, I'm facing the wrong way on the drive..uhmmm!

Ah well ,lets know any thoughts that you may have.

Regards,

Steve S.

[mumof4]

WEll you could try pushing it out of the drive to face the way you want to go :( ..once you get the beasties moving they aint that hard to push..Had to push the Gal i had 50 yards once.

 

Otherwise..i aint got a clue..will be interesting to see how many miles you can cover without useing reverse...gonna try it?.. :16:

[gregers]

used to work with a guy who owned an early honda shuttle and he was driving it around for months without reverse,he even took it to be m.o.t,d AND IT PASSED.