Gears

WILLPENNING1

MEMBER
2008 VAUXHALL CORSA
1.2L
3 CYL
2WD
MANUAL
60,000 MILES

May sound odd, but if I sit in my drive stick my clutch down without the engine on the gears are all so smooth and easy. As soon as I start properly driving for about five minutes my gear one is very hard to get into. When I change from second to first or any gear to first it is a straight up battle I have to jam it in and it makes a noise, I recently bought this car second hand so I have six months warranty on it would you recommend taking it back or feel it would be an easy fix?

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JACOBANDNICKOLAS

MECHANIC
108,310 POSTS

Hi and thanks for using 2CarPros.com.

First, check and make sure the clutch fluid is full. Most of these vehicles have a hydraulic clutch which consist of a clutch master cylinder and a slave cylinder. If the fluid is low, basically you are not disengaging the transmission from the engine. It would be similar to shifting without a clutch.

If the fluid is full, I suspect it will be one of the aforementioned components. Take a look through this link. It discusses the parts I mentioned. Please note that the link shows fluid being added to the master cylinder. On many cars, there is a separate reservoir for the clutch fluid.

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/clutch-doesnt-work-sometimes-or-not-at-all

Let me know if this helps or if you have other questions.

Take care,
Joe