(I did my research and found exactly 3 posts about this same topic.)
I had a weird thing happen to me last night. I was driving through a parking
lot and went to back up. I put the shift lever into reverse, but the car was
in first and went forward. Needless to say, this was a bit disconcerting!
Any ideas anyone? I tried a bunch of times since then to duplicate the
problem, but it hasn't come back.
Chris
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this happened to me in my golf... turns out the ball on the shift knob had
slid out of its socket. don't know if everything's the same on the 02A,
never bothered to pop the shifter boot off and have a look, but check
that...

Jason Wall
Network/NT Administrator
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1998 VW GTI VR6 (almost NOSed)
1997 VW Golf 8V
1988 Toyota Celica Turbo All-Trac

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Chris Franson [SMTP:chris_franson@ulsaker]
> Sent:	Thursday, July 15, 1999 12:37 PM
> To:	GTI-VR6 list
> Subject:	[gti-vr6] forward in reverse?
> 
> (I did my research and found exactly 3 posts about this same topic.)
> I had a weird thing happen to me last night. I was driving through a
> parking
> lot and went to back up. I put the shift lever into reverse, but the car
> was
> in first and went forward. Needless to say, this was a bit disconcerting!
> Any ideas anyone? I tried a bunch of times since then to duplicate the
> problem, but it hasn't come back.
> Chris
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In a message dated 7/15/99 2:38:49 PM, chris_franson@ulsaker writes:

<< (I did my research and found exactly 3 posts about this same topic.)
I had a weird thing happen to me last night. I was driving through a parking
lot and went to back up. I put the shift lever into reverse, but the car was
in first and went forward. Needless to say, this was a bit disconcerting!
Any ideas anyone? I tried a bunch of times since then to duplicate the
problem, but it hasn't come back.
Chris
-- >>

This happened to me a couple times in my '84 Rabbit GTi and later found it to 
be a linkage problem.  Take a look at the linkage to see if it's loosening up 
or needs to be replaced.
Nate
'98 Black VR6 Gittie
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Chris,

Yep, I've had a similar experience.  Twice as a matter of fact.  First time
wound up that a bolt had worked its way loose inside(!) the tranny.  I had
nothing to grab except for 2nd gear at that time.  Fixed that under warranty
at 5K miles.  2nd time was around 25-30K or so.  I couldn't grab reverse for
anything.  Every time I tried for reverse, I got either 1st, 2nd or nothing
at all.  Dealer adjusted the linkage and its been fine ever since.  I'm
around 75K now, so it seems to be a "permanent" fix.

Brian Kling
C/S Manager
Worldwide Customer Support Center
EMC Corporation
kling_brian@emc
508-435-1000 X:70809

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 18:33:12 EDT
From: Nfe100@aol
Subject: Re: [gti-vr6] forward in reverse?

In a message dated 7/15/99 2:38:49 PM, chris_franson@ulsaker writes:

<< (I did my research and found exactly 3 posts about this same topic.)
I had a weird thing happen to me last night. I was driving through a parking
lot and went to back up. I put the shift lever into reverse, but the car was
in first and went forward. Needless to say, this was a bit disconcerting!
Any ideas anyone? I tried a bunch of times since then to duplicate the
problem, but it hasn't come back.
Chris
- -- >>

This happened to me a couple times in my '84 Rabbit GTi and later found it
to 
be a linkage problem.  Take a look at the linkage to see if it's loosening
up 
or needs to be replaced.
Nate
'98 Black VR6 Gittie

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