I have launched this as a NEW topic because the problem is quite serious and I don't want it submerged beneath other Gearbox problems.
My 208 1.6 eHDI 5-door Allure will suddenly jump out of first gear. The gearlever springs across the box into the 3/4 plane almost hitting my leg as it does so. There are graunching sounds when it does it.
The conditions for this happening are:
(1) Car is being driven in 1st gear.
(2) Speed less than 10mph
(3) light throttle
(4) usually going down a steepish incline.
I described the fault to the dealer and they checked it out at the 1000 mile service, but of course it would not do it for them.
Annoyingly the fault DID occur within about a mile of their premises when I was on my way, going down an incline in heavy rush hour traffic and queuing to traffic lights, where vehicles were moving at walking pace. When I later took their mechanic on a test drive to the same location (without rush hour traffic) of course it did not do it to order.
Now with the speedo on 1400 miles the fault seems to happen more often, so I have taken the car back to the dealer and left it there for 3 days asking them to take it home and drive it.
On the way in to them the car faulted TWICE on the short descent from my car park to the main road (about 200 metres long and steepish at the top then flattening out), speed shown as 9mph. Then about 2 miles from the dealer I had to negotiate 2 sets of traffic lights, both on flat level road. Stop at the first set, then on green engage 1st and move forward to the second set of lights which are still on red. The second lights are about 150metres from the first set. Car jumps out of first gear again.
Nearer to the dealer I tried to replicate the fault on the same piece of road where it had faulted in rush hour traffic previously, but it would not do it to order.
This problem only seems to occur at low speed, in conditions where the terrain, visibility or traffic demand caution.
If I take away fast, I can max the revs in all the gears without problem, I just can't go slow in first gear. Otherwise the gearbox is good to use, and it copes easily when I change straight from 3rd into 5th or from 5th back into 3rd (a U-shaped change); no evidence of a clunky change here.
I might add that the 208 1.6 eHDI is the 4th Peugeot I have owned, all at the same location, and all mechanically almost identical (206 1.4 HDI, 207 1.6 HDI, 207 SW HDI 1.6). I think I know how to change gear and how to drive a Peugeot.
QUESTIONS:
How can I get my dealer to recognise the fault if it wont do it for them ?
Is there something the dealer can check even if they can't experience the fault ?
What can I do to get it fixed if the dealer insists that all is well ?
Has this happened to anyone else, either with a 208 or any other car?
My 208 1.6 eHDI 5-door Allure will suddenly jump out of first gear. The gearlever springs across the box into the 3/4 plane almost hitting my leg as it does so. There are graunching sounds when it does it.
The conditions for this happening are:
(1) Car is being driven in 1st gear.
(2) Speed less than 10mph
(3) light throttle
(4) usually going down a steepish incline.
I described the fault to the dealer and they checked it out at the 1000 mile service, but of course it would not do it for them.
Annoyingly the fault DID occur within about a mile of their premises when I was on my way, going down an incline in heavy rush hour traffic and queuing to traffic lights, where vehicles were moving at walking pace. When I later took their mechanic on a test drive to the same location (without rush hour traffic) of course it did not do it to order.
Now with the speedo on 1400 miles the fault seems to happen more often, so I have taken the car back to the dealer and left it there for 3 days asking them to take it home and drive it.
On the way in to them the car faulted TWICE on the short descent from my car park to the main road (about 200 metres long and steepish at the top then flattening out), speed shown as 9mph. Then about 2 miles from the dealer I had to negotiate 2 sets of traffic lights, both on flat level road. Stop at the first set, then on green engage 1st and move forward to the second set of lights which are still on red. The second lights are about 150metres from the first set. Car jumps out of first gear again.
Nearer to the dealer I tried to replicate the fault on the same piece of road where it had faulted in rush hour traffic previously, but it would not do it to order.
This problem only seems to occur at low speed, in conditions where the terrain, visibility or traffic demand caution.
If I take away fast, I can max the revs in all the gears without problem, I just can't go slow in first gear. Otherwise the gearbox is good to use, and it copes easily when I change straight from 3rd into 5th or from 5th back into 3rd (a U-shaped change); no evidence of a clunky change here.
I might add that the 208 1.6 eHDI is the 4th Peugeot I have owned, all at the same location, and all mechanically almost identical (206 1.4 HDI, 207 1.6 HDI, 207 SW HDI 1.6). I think I know how to change gear and how to drive a Peugeot.
QUESTIONS:
How can I get my dealer to recognise the fault if it wont do it for them ?
Is there something the dealer can check even if they can't experience the fault ?
What can I do to get it fixed if the dealer insists that all is well ?
Has this happened to anyone else, either with a 208 or any other car?
