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I have had this problem since I bought this car. Here are the symptoms: The shifter feels heavy and awkward to shift, it grinds if I shift into first too fast or reverse and the throw of the shift is very long and impersise. I have changed the fluid, when installing the new driveshaft I noticed that the bottom shift seal looked a little worn out. I wouldn't think that this is the linkage because my old 533i had bad shift linkage but no grinding. In my old 533 I used to be able to drive at 40mph, shift the thing into reverse, redline it and dump the clutch, causing the car to smoke tires, with a finesse of the wheel, do a perfect 180 then shoot backwards, after driving backward at a rediculis speed I would jam it into first pop the clutch and spin it back around. Very dangerous yet wicked fun, anyone try it?

In my 535i I can't even put it into reverse or first unless the car is stopped. The problem has not progressed. I'm no transmission expert but I hope the syncro's aren't bad, so guys help me out. Clutch? Tranny? Pressure plate? Linkage?

It sounds like it could be the synchros. The manual transmission I had on my old 528e had a problem shifting into 4th unless I let the revs drop down pretty low before shifting into the gear.

I really think the synchros are bad.

I also think that whoever bought your 533i got screwed. The same goes for whoever may buy your 535i when you decide to sell it, if you drive it like you did your 533i.

My 533i ended up in the junk yard. This is a great story. I bought my 533i for $400. The guy who sold it to me didn't know what was wrong with it. It ran like crap. But I didn't care I needed a ride back and forth to work. After a while of getting sick of it running like $hit, I brought it to the dealership to get a full diagnosis. They gave me a list about a page long of misclaneus sensors and bad suspension parts. One of the things that got to me was one of the cylinders was not firing due to a bent valve. They said it didn't have too long left to live. Pouting on the way home...SLAM some angel came down from heaven in a red mitsubishi mirage and smashed the whole rear end in. Her insurance company gave me $2500 for damages on my car and they would give me another $400 for the car itself. Yippie!!!! So with the crumpled rear. I took it out with all intensions of serious abuse. With a bungie cord holding down the trunk I scraped guardrails, jumped it numerous times, once I landed on the front end crumpling the bumper(which hurt) I did some serios off road drifting sideways action around every corner, I hit a tree (with the car still drivable) I smashed through a chain link fence and donuts hole shots E brake redlined with no oil in it with no oil cap on. I could not blow that motor or kill that car. I just gave it to the junkyard looking like something that went through jurassic park. I kicked myself when I bought the 535i and the 533 would have made a great parts car.

I used to be able to drive at 40mph, shift the thing into reverse, redline it and dump the clutch, causing the car to smoke tires, with a finesse of the wheel, do a perfect 180 then shoot backwards, after driving backward at a rediculis speed I would jam it into first pop the clutch and spin it back around. Very dangerous yet wicked fun, anyone try it?

With a bungie cord holding down the trunk I scraped guardrails, jumped it numerous times, once I landed on the front end crumpling the bumper(which hurt) I did some serios off road drifting sideways action around every corner, I hit a tree (with the car still drivable) I smashed through a chain link fence and donuts hole shots E brake redlined with no oil in it with no oil cap on. I could not blow that motor or kill that car

I am scared of you. How could you treat a machine like that. Have you no respect for the ....DUDE, you are headed for some BAD karma.

and you guys were giving me crap about not wanting to play check-book-roulette with relays????

yeesh.

also, get a new shifter, I have a UUC, its nice (came with car).... won't solve the problem of needing new synchros (which sounds about par for the course)... but its a bunch less money and I don't really see how your car is going to last long enough to pay-off a tranny rebuild...

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I am scared of you. How could you treat a machine like that. Have you no respect for the ....DUDE, you are headed for some BAD karma.[/QUOTE]

Why not? the car was usesless, bent valves, leaking head, every electrical problem in the book, and a crunched rear end.
All for $hits and giggles

C'mon everyone has had a field car!!! Mine was just a BMW.

[QUOTE="smackmybutter535i"]Why not? the car was usesless, bent valves, leaking head, every electrical problem in the book, and a crunched rear end.
All for $hits and giggles[/QUOTE]

I'm sure the taxpayers who have to fix that guardrail, whoever hit your oil slick, and whoever owned that chain link fence could tell you "Why not?"! Sounds pretty selfish for a bit of "$hits and giggles."

When getting parts out of a junkyard car, do you obliterate every good part in your way?

What a dolt!!!!!!!!

wow....

***grabs popcorn***

I have outgrown my hellraising stage, that was me three years ago. Now I have settled down with a decent job and a wonderful, beutiful girl. I am not proud of my actions nor do I regret them, but the experiences that I have lived made me the halfway responsible 22 year old that I am today. With the knowledge I hold now on automechanics I'm kicking myself knowing that with a little work that could have made an excellent car for parts.