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This question revolves around an oddity that came up just after I retrieved my car for a Twice replacement. I can't connect it to anything the dealer did, but it perplexes me, all the same.
I own a 200 9-5 Turbo, 5 speed manual.
When I started driving it, I immediately noticed that the shift stick was very stiff, more so in moving it to the left [N at 1/2]. Moving up/down into 3/4 or right to 5 was a little stiffer than normal. Up into 5 was not changed.
I also noticed that while in N, and not touched, the shifter rumbled, reminiscent of gearing partially rotating [like a gear is whirring, and rumbling]. I'm guessing that there are 5-15 bumps/clicks per second; I can't say, right now, that the frequency increases if I increase the engine speed, but I have the sense that it doesn't, but might. (I can go check this if someone thinks its useful to know).
I notice that if I lean the shifter to the left, such manipulation takes away the rumbling partially -- fully if I pull up [or push down?] on the stick at the same time.
The tech had demonstrated to me how the leather cover came off the metal stick [why he knew that, I can't say, since he also claims to have not touched the console when he pulled the seats and jute/carpet]. All the same, I have an uneducated sense that something is in/on/around the white plastic and whatever that is under the leather, or that some change has been made to the spring loading, or that he bottomed out the car, causing this odd behavior. Of course, this is only me guessing, for no real reason other than it seems like...
I do not notice any change in the way the clutch works, but can't exclude that it is different [as in, it's not relieving the clutch plate fully?] I have not checked clutch fluid, specifically, since I don't know where it is, specifically, but no visible fluids in their compartments are low [is clutch fluid somewhere else...?]
I have noticed in the past, on this car, and in others, that even with the clutch in, some gear or another still whirs around, and if one slowly moves towards 1st gear [clutch down!], there is a rumble where the gear teeth ride each other, and that I can stop it by throwing the shift [clutched down, of course] into another gear [like 2nd], and then no longer will this whirring gear whir. I mention this because the rumble, now noticed by me, is reminiscent of that kind of whirring.
Does anyone have an explanation (or ideas to think on) for what's up with the stiffness, and the rumble, suddenly appearing after the dealer had the car for 11 days, to replace a Twice and Battery? [They did test drive it...]
Water in the car was likely from above, from the sunroof, not rising water. Water only came up high enough to float the rear foot well carpet with a puddle of water, and damage the Twice under the driver seat. We're talking an inch or two, only, and probably only in the inside passenger wells, and not under the car, rising into the cabin, and impacting other car elements outside the cabin well.
Your help appreciated in advance....
posted by 173.149.211...
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