The more I need it the more likely it is I don't get it.
I change gears a hundred times a day in normal driving without any problems. But take it out on the drag strip and try to get a time, and time after time the same thing happens, I go from first to second OK, but when I change up from 2nd I find myself in 5th. Or if I pull onto the motorway into the gap ahead of a big truck, a gap the 172's acceleration means I should have no trouble fitting into easily, when I change up from 3rd I either find myself in 5th with very little acceleration or in neutral with no acceleration and with a annoyed truckie coming up rapidly on my arse. Its not just damn annoying, its a safety issue. I'm going to get shunted up the arse one of these days, and I'm going to be held responsible.
The car's got 45,000 kms on it. The gearbox did its synchros and had them replaced under warranty, but it did the same before it was rebuilt, and it still does it now. When I take it in for service I complain every time, and every time they do nothing, they just dismiss my complaint with a comment that I just need to take the upchange more slowly/carefully. But, gees, I've driven cars for 40 years, I know how to change gears, and I've never had any similar problem to this on any car I've driven ever. I've never driven a car that missed going into the right gear exactly when you need it to.
It doesn't crunch. It either just slips cleanly into gear, only 5th instead of 3rd, or it just balks for long enough that your left foot starts coming back up off the clutch before your brain realises your left hand had only made it to the middle of the H-pattern not all the way into the next gear.
Its like under full power the engine and gearbox and moving just enough that the gear linkages are thrown just a bit out of alignment. But I don't know if that really is the problem.
Its due for service again soon. Is there anything I can suggest to the dealer that they might be able to do that might sort out the problem?
I change gears a hundred times a day in normal driving without any problems. But take it out on the drag strip and try to get a time, and time after time the same thing happens, I go from first to second OK, but when I change up from 2nd I find myself in 5th. Or if I pull onto the motorway into the gap ahead of a big truck, a gap the 172's acceleration means I should have no trouble fitting into easily, when I change up from 3rd I either find myself in 5th with very little acceleration or in neutral with no acceleration and with a annoyed truckie coming up rapidly on my arse. Its not just damn annoying, its a safety issue. I'm going to get shunted up the arse one of these days, and I'm going to be held responsible.
The car's got 45,000 kms on it. The gearbox did its synchros and had them replaced under warranty, but it did the same before it was rebuilt, and it still does it now. When I take it in for service I complain every time, and every time they do nothing, they just dismiss my complaint with a comment that I just need to take the upchange more slowly/carefully. But, gees, I've driven cars for 40 years, I know how to change gears, and I've never had any similar problem to this on any car I've driven ever. I've never driven a car that missed going into the right gear exactly when you need it to.
It doesn't crunch. It either just slips cleanly into gear, only 5th instead of 3rd, or it just balks for long enough that your left foot starts coming back up off the clutch before your brain realises your left hand had only made it to the middle of the H-pattern not all the way into the next gear.
Its like under full power the engine and gearbox and moving just enough that the gear linkages are thrown just a bit out of alignment. But I don't know if that really is the problem.
Its due for service again soon. Is there anything I can suggest to the dealer that they might be able to do that might sort out the problem?
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