Citroen Saxo Forte W Reg - Crunching & Trouble engaging gears

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Sun 21 Oct 2012 11:36
Citroen Saxo Forte W Reg - Crunching & Trouble engaging gears - happyhotspur

My Saxo has started to give problems when trying to engage either first gear or reverse, when actually getting it into gear there is a lot of crunghing and grinding of the gears, all geselection is becoming difficult but first and reverse are the worst.?

Yesterday the car seemed to keep accelerating despite my braking this was a bit of a worry as I was joing the M25 at the time. I eventually managed to get the car into fifth and then it seemed okay, except engaging all gears was very stiff.

Is this a gearbox problem or clutch? I will have to decide if the car is worth a repair and don't want to take it too a garage unless I know

thanks

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Sun 21 Oct 2012 16:22
Citroen Saxo Forte W Reg - Crunching & Trouble engaging gears - madf

Sound l ike clutch to me. IIRC it's cable operated and can be adjusted.

Any semi competent garage could do a quick diagnoses.

A new clutch vai a clutch specialist (Mr Clutch?) would cost in the region of £300: ring them for a quote.

Of course, it may not be the clutch but sounds like it is..As for your acceleration issue ??

If you appear not mechanically minded there is no way you will "know" what the problem is before you take it to a garage.

Edited by madf on 21/10/2012 at 16:23

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Thu 31 Jan 2013 18:17
Citroen Saxo Forte W Reg - Crunching & Trouble engaging gears - villamarc

I have a saxo west coast and i have the same trouble, but mine is first and second gears. and also have the same thing with the car speeding up when in traffic jams . you just touch the throttle so your traving in say second gear, release the throttle and all of a sudden the rev counter goes up to 2000rpm the car shoots forward, so i dip the clutch dab the throttle and it goes back to normal, though some times it will go up and down from 700 rpm to 2000 rpm and seem as though its going to cut out then is ok again. rather dangerous really, garage could find nothing wrong.

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