sup guys,
my girl just got a lude and its quite nice, however ive picked out some problems.
When you shift into 5th gear, you feel and hear the gear lever crunch/grind a little (only for 5th gear, all others are fine as well as reverse). Now this only happens when you're travelling over 60km/h (it rarely or hardly occurs when going 60km/h or less). Its not really a bad grind/crunch, more like that the gear stick vibrates a little and feels a bit funny to put it.
In stand still and in idle there is no crunch/grinding either.
She got it checked out by her mechanic and he says he will have to take out the gearbox and check it out - may be the syncromesh or somewhat.
What do you guys think? I have read elsewhere that its a common problem that many ludes have had, but whats the solution?
The mechanic estimates $1500-$2500 to replace it (or fix it - cant remember what he said).
Another problem i noticed is that the tachometer plays around a little (bounces around say from 2krpm to 3krpm and back again), but it looks merely a problem with the tacho. There is no change in the 'feel' of the car (by that i mean it doesnt feel like the rpms have changed) and the car sounds normal when it occurs. What you reckon about this?
thanks guys, thats all for now!
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