kevinp Posted September 10, 2004 Report Posted September 10, 2004 Last week whilst crossing a busy road junction, I lost all gear selection and was RAC recovered home. You could stir the gearstick round like stirring soup!. Having searched this forum, I checked all the gear selector cables and everything was working OK including the mechanism on top of the gearbox. Suffering the indignity of a second trip on a low loader to my local (non-Ford) garage, they found a sheared bolt on the selector sleeve/linkage inside the gearbox. Now repaired OK but the bolt head has been lost into the gearbox! Looking back at the service history, it seems the same thing happened 2 years ago and was repaired at a main dealer. Two questions .... Is this another achilles heel of the Galaxy/Sharan/Alhambra range (although I've not heard of it before)? How worried should I be about probably 2 bolt heads floating around in my gearbox? Hopefully the sump is big enough that they sit at the bottom in the oil! Quote
Ivor_E_Tower Posted September 10, 2004 Report Posted September 10, 2004 Time to buy a big magnet and slap it on underneath the lowest point of the gearbox? Quote
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