Can't find 1st gear.

charley · Sep 19, 2013

First of all hi to everyone and thanks in advance for your help. My wife has just bought a 2009 CRD manual Patriot (Sports pak). Now, every now and then after having reversed up she finds it "impossible" to find first gear. Saying that it just keeps going onto reverse. She says even with the reverse latch under the gear knob down and having gone from reverse all the way to the other side over to where 5th and 6th gear are and then coming all the back across she is still unable to find 1st as it keeps allowing her go into reverse.
I have had quick look under the gear stick cover and it looks as though the mechanism for the reverse gate is a manually operated system with a cable that lifts the gate allowing the stick to be pushed over to engaged reverse. Is this right and has any had similar issues with this?
Cheers,
Jarrod.

harold · Sep 19, 2013

we have the same problem
now when i go from reverse to 1st, i go via 2nd ! if that makes sense......

charley · Sep 19, 2013

Yeh, that does make sense and that's what I have told her to do. Have you researched it further or is something that you have just adapted too? She's getting a bit stressed out that it may be something more serious than what I think.

harold · Sep 19, 2013

haven't a clue what causes it - guess would be the collar not reseating properly
doesn't bother me
just do that conscious move it fully into 2nd before moving it up to 1st

harold · Sep 19, 2013

oh sorry - WELCOME !!!
:smiley_thumbs_up:

charley · Sep 19, 2013

Cheers for that. I'll pass it on to the wife. And tell her to chill.

dixiedawg · Sep 19, 2013

Welcome!

Jeepies · Sep 20, 2013

I had similar troubles when new (except i had trouble getting it in reverse), it helped to let out the clutch all the way, then try again...

goguadi · Sep 20, 2013

welcome and enjoy your pat!
try this:
under the hood,take out the crd cover and the filter box.
you will then be able to visualize the gearbox.
at the top of it you will see the place where the shifting cables connect.
there should be a plastic safety there that holds them firm.
make sure it isn' t loose.
if it is in place but loose,get some plastic retainers over it,at least 2 diagonally.
i mean those plastic retainers used for fixing electric cables together.
if that safety is in place and firm,you don't need to do this,might just be a gearbox syncro problem.

charley · Sep 21, 2013

Thanks for that. I will have look tomorrow. I did give the whole mechanism under the gear stick cover a spray with lanolin. It all seems to be moving a lot smoother. So we'll see how that goes.

pertaandrew · May 6, 2023

Hello there, l have got exactly the same issues with finding the 1st gear and most of the time I put it in reverse.
Has anyone managed to take a few pictures at where I should look ?

Can't find 1st gear.

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