Hey,

Just brought a facelift 2004 ep3 of my not so bright brother in law. Firstly;

- Central locking doesn't work, he put a full custom sound system install in including the head unit.. However since he did this central locking no longer works.. No alarm or even by the key in the lock?

- secondly more importantly he's lost 3rd gear? :s.. He said it was becoming hard to engage and eventually just went... After looking at it today, It engages easily but there's no clunk like it's engaging. If we wiggle the gear linkage mechanism on the box and let clutch out it crunches and spins like it's not engaged.. However if we keep playing with it and let the clutch out it does move the car a little bit until it stops. ( ie half the clutch) on a hill engaged in 3rd clutch out if you move the gearstick back slightly it will start to role back but if you then push it forward it would hold itself on the hill? Basically like a forward and backwards lever? All other gears work fine? It's just the 3rd gear that is slipping? The biting point on the clutch is very low also.

Thanks for any help .

 

Stop messing with 3rd gear you are just going to make it worse and eventually ruined more parts in the transmission. Drop the transmission and be prepared to swap out 3rd gear set and synchros.


As far as locks goes sounds like you need to go in and pull all of the old stereo stuff out and he probably installed an aftermarket alarm. Get rid of that and then reset your original key fob.