General Gear shifter locking up

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General Gear shifter locking up

Jay4176

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I have a 2010 fiat 500, owned for couple of years but over last few weeks the gear shifter has started to lock up when going from reverse to neutral, goes into neutral with a good slap but clearly that’s not a long term solution, Does this all the time wether engine is running or not. Selects and moves freely between all other gears.

Anyone able to help?
 
Does it wether engine on or off and fluid is at maximum in the reservoir. Started happening out of the blue one day. Haven’t tried not pressing the clutch when exiting reverse
 
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I have had the cables disconnected from the gearbox during last week as had the gearbox out to do a clutch in the 500 and all cables seem fine at gearbox end, going to strip down the gear shifter end this weekend and see if there is any obvious signs at that end
 
What was cause and solution?

I never did get to the bottom of why it started sticking, stripped it down and checked all connections and all seemed the way it should be. However did end up changing the gearbox in the car as the old one was making some nasty noises and I was losing oil out of it and since then never had an issue with a sticky gear lever
 
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