Rearlly Notcy Gear Shift and car pulls when braking

[monk180]

Hi,

My car has developed an awful gear shift, where it is heavy to push out into another gear, and also cannot rush it into another one, until it rev matches. Needless to say downshifting without rev matching is awful.

Could this be dragging clutch or a cable issue between the stick and the gearbox? Oddly if the ABS / ESP has been activated the gear shift gets alot better, then worse. Is this something to do with the ABS pump bleeding the system?

I got the car just after it had all new rotors and pads, perhaps the garage did not follow the vacuum bleed? Car only done 58k, I do not think it could be the slave in the clutch, car has a history of easy out of town driving.

Also on top of that, under very hard breaking (full pressure with ABS), then the car will I would not say "pull" to the right, but sort of grab, with the front right seeming to brake harder than the left.

So if the brakes and clutch share the same reservoir, could all this just be air in the system?


Thanks

[Chris_R]

Sounds like it could be related to brake fluid system - as you say the clutch and brakes share the same hydraulic system. The difficulty to shift could be attributed to the clutch not fully engaging
Even though you have had pads and discs done unless you explicitly asked for a brake bleed too it is unlikely it would be done during a pad/disc change.
If there is air in the system it's easy to fix and cheap too, if you lack the skills/tools then get it to a local VAG specialist it shouldn't cost you much at all, even VW's price is reasonable for a bleed. You want a garage with VCDS or similar to run the ABS pump cycle to bleed it properly which any old garage may not have/do. Make sure you ask them to bleed the clutch slave too.

[pudding]

Could also be worn console bushes and/or pendulum gearbox mount.  I don't think this one is going to be easy to diagnose online.  I think it needs an inspection on the ramp.