Hi all,

Thank all of you for sharing your thoughts with me. I had to make a decision about driving to italy or not...very difficult because driving with Wify and 3 cats...you wouldn't get stranded along the German Autobahn. Finally decided to take the chance and take the FF (other car I can't trust either because of some strange noise when accelerating).
We just arrived in Italy and all went well; really, really happy Reverse is still there...Keep fingers crossed

Glad to hear it

just try and avoid reversing up any steep slopes whilst away! There is nothing that can't be fixed with a hammer😜😜
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Sure will do that!

Mine does that too (jump / shudders), it only does it when I go to the Folks, their driveway is downhill and on reversing out on to the hill (uphill, back higher that the front all the time) that they live on, if I give the car a foot full it will jump/shudder/hicup, I recon that it's low oil / all run to the front of the gearbox sump, and when you hit the loud peddle the rest of the gearoil rushes forward starving the box hence the loss of drive, in a rearwards fashion

The gearbox probably needs a deeper sump and lower pick up to cure the fault, but as it's only when your going backwards, does it really matter? just be more gentle with the loud switch  Yesterday I couldn't spell Engineer... Today I are one!
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