Gear stick trouble.. Help please.

[Hannah47]

I have a punto mia 2001, Y reg. My 5th gear and reverse gear arent directly in line so it would make sense for me to have one of those gear sticks that has a bit that you lift up to then allow you to put your car into reverse, however mine has a bit you lift up, but there is no spring in it so if i lift i up it stays up, if i push it down it stays down. Sometimes il lift it up and it will stay up, then when im stopped and want tp put my car into reverse, i realise that its slid back down of its own accord. It took me a while to work out that my car actually had the bit to lift up. Originally I thought that i had broken my car and i couldnt put it in reverse.

Am i supposed to have a bit to lift up to put it into reverse? And if so, should it be springy so that after you've lifted it up it returns back to being down?

 

[Fiatseicento2002]

I assume that the gear stick design in the Punto is the same as the seicento

On mine you lift up the bit and then select the gear and it stays up until i take it out of reverse maybe the spring in urs is broken ?

 

[Hannah47]

it must be broken then. Or its come off or something. Atleast I know that it should be there though. Thanks x