Perhaps fair do is from abroad and not familiar with. VW model names. You have various bushes and joints between the bottom if the stick and the actuators on the gearbox. Yours are worn. Any garage can sort this out. No need for a main dealer. Call round. You ought to be able to get a quote and it won't be a lot. It would make driving it much nicer though.
You dont say what the car is but as all the gears are selecting OK the problem is probably easily fixed.
The gear stick to gearbox connection could be by cable or by rod in cars where the gear lever does not go directly into the gear box. Rods may have a Rose joint (like a ball and socket) such as found in older small Peugeots and that could mean replacing the rods or maybe just the joints. With cables it will probably be because they have streched and need adjusting. On gear levers going direct into the box it can sometimes be a worn gate allowing the lever to slop about. Get a Haynes manual for your car, it is probably a diy job.
Complex! We had a job to do in London the one time and we were traveling down there from 150 miles away, just as we went to pull on to the motorway the gear level snapped off leaving nothing more than a stub : /
Hello all, just to get it out of the way I am an IT man, my knowledge of cars doesn't pass driving it, I have very little understanding, but my gear stick for my polo is very loose I could just push it with my finger and it would flop around, it gets every gear perfectly and drives fine.
Can the gear stick just be loose? Or is it a case that the cables could of snapped? Any help on this would be great just need to know how much this could potentially cost me.
Thanks!
