Regardless of if you have an automatic or a manual gear box, any vehicle can develop gear box issues. It may be that for some time you have noticed a noise when changing gear, or that the gear box has started to become sloppy, or you may not be aware of any issues until it stops working altogether. There are a number of components that make up a gearbox and the linkage and even if only one stops working as it should, it can make the car un-driveable.
Manual cars have two cables that drive the gears, one does the forward and backward motion of the stick and the other does the side to side. If one of these cables breaks then you may find that you lose half of your gear positions or possibly all of them.
If the gear stick has a lot of play in it and seems lose even when in a gear, then the cable may well of stretched and need replacing. Replacing gear box cables can be a costly job as often it is quite labour intensive. If you do notice something that doesn’t sound or feel quite right, then be sure to get it checked out as soon as possible, rather than leaving it until something goes wrong.
