RE: Slipping out of gear

[Colin <cwass99@home.com>]

Stop driving the car and check the transaxle fluid level!  It might only be
just low, but you really don't want to be taking any chances.  The position of
5th is such that it will start to have problems from lack of fluid before
anything else, but if you don't get it soon, you won't have 5th gear at all.  I
learned this the hardway.  It only popped out of 5th once on me, then I lost
5th completely.  $750 to fix things was a tough lesson.

Cheers,
Colin


On 25-Nov-01 Zack LeGrow wrote:
> Well, it just got cold here. very cold.. :(
> 
> So anyways, I'm driving home in the snow, and suddenly my car 
> drops out of gear. As my hand was on the shifter, I thought I may 
> have just pulled it out of gear accidentally. Then it happened twice 
> more before I got home, with my hand nowhere near the stick. I 
> was in fifth gear all three times.
> 
> Do i need a new clutch? I hope not, but I fear it may be so...
> 
> And my backup lights dont work... They seem to turn on when I go 
> into fifth gear, instead of reverse... and they're bright! It kept 
> blinding people behind me at night, until a friend told me and I 
> removed the bulbs. Though I try, I'm an amateur mechanic at best, 
> and I have no idea what could be wrong.
> Zack LeGrow
> '86 Scirocco 8V - The Red Baron
> 
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