I have a question I'd like to ask the VW people but my contact at the dealership sounds like she knows as much about cars as me, diddly squat, the VW customer care people are just rude and go out of their way not to enter into conversation and the technical people, the ones I really want to talk to are like a threatened species, so protected a mere pleb like me is totally forbidden from contact.
Maybe you guys might know.
I don't know for sure but think it's possible my car started having problems finding first and reverse after I reversed backwards up my neighbours driveway. I fed their animals for a week and so reversed up an incline every day. My neighbours do it all the time and have lived there for 20 years and it's never been a problem for any of their cars. It's not a steep incline but possibly one of the only times my car has been reversed up hill in it's life. I read somewhere on the internet about a guy who's Passat also started the false neutral problem straight after he'd had to reverse up a hill out of a car park. Anyone think there's a connection? So far it's been confirmed that the mechatronics unit had a manufacturer fault so they've paid to replace it but now they've found the problem is also with the gearbox and clutch.