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Technical 'Loose/Clunk' feeling on gear change (500S 85 TA)

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Technical 'Loose/Clunk' feeling on gear change (500S 85 TA)

DBunX

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Hi,

Bit of a strange one this but I thought I'd ask anyway. I've just (over the last few days) started to notice a bit of...clunking / resistance or something when changing gear from the south end of the gear stick (so when going from 2nd/4th). It's quite intermittent, and nothing seems wrong, but I can most definitely feel something different when moving the stick out of those positions.

Any ideas? Car is coming up to 2 years old, had from new.
 
This anecdotal, but since I'm not aware of anyone reporting this on a 500 here goes. My Jeep (Mercedes sourced 6 speed), started being difficult to get into gear after about 10K miles, it was fine when cold (well it was always a bit sticky cold), fine when hot (it takes about 30miles to warm up a gearbox fully), but resistant when 'warm'. This lasted about 2K miles and went away all by itself....
 
UFI said:
This anecdotal, but since I'm not aware of anyone reporting this on a 500 here goes. My Jeep (Mercedes sourced 6 speed), started being difficult to get into gear after about 10K miles, it was fine when cold (well it was always a bit sticky cold), fine when hot (it takes about 30miles to warm up a gearbox fully), but resistant when 'warm'. This lasted about 2K miles and went away all by itself....
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It's so weird, it doesn't seem to make any difference on moving the stick at all so there isn't any resistance, but it just feels...how do I explain this...that it might be (the whole stick) moving up or down a bit when it is doing the 'thing'.

On this mornings drive it only happened a few times. The thing is 95% of my journeys are from Portsmouth to Havant which is only about 10 miles or so, and then its left in the carpark for 8 hours and then the same thing again later.
It is due a service soon (provided the gearbox doesn't suddenly fall out the bottom) so I'll ask them about it then.
 
DBunX said:
It's so weird, it doesn't seem to make any difference on moving the stick at all so there isn't any resistance, but it just feels...how do I explain this...that it might be (the whole stick) moving up or down a bit when it is doing the 'thing'.



On this mornings drive it only happened a few times. The thing is 95% of my journeys are from Portsmouth to Havant which is only about 10 miles or so, and then its left in the carpark for 8 hours and then the same thing again later.

It is due a service soon (provided the gearbox doesn't suddenly fall out the bottom) so I'll ask them about it then.
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Sounds like something in the selector or linkage is loose, probably easily fixed under warranty
 
Mercky said:
Sounds like something in the selector or linkage is loose, probably easily fixed under warranty
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I hope so, it was doing it on the way home tonight and it was really obvious, a very definite clunk you can just about hear and feel.
 
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