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Originally Posted by Razi
It's not a 'problem', from what I understand, the reverse gear is a different type of gear than the others.
That is why the car whines when you move in reverse
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Like I said above, reverse is a straight cut dog gear. All forward gears are helical cut for noise reduction. Dog gears are stronger but makes more noise. Imaging reversing down the freeway. That's why helical gears are used in the forward gears.
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Originally Posted by Razi
is also the reason why you have to move the car a little or put it into another gear if it doesn't go into reverse.
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Straight cut gear is not why reverse is hard to select. Reverse gear has no synchroniser. Forward gears usually have one, two, or even three synchronisers. That's why you can know nothing about rev-matching and still drive.
Reverse requires perfect revmatching. Otherwise the gears won't mesh correctly.
Don't go into reverse until you stopped. If it still doesn't want to go in, put it in neutral, pop the clutch, blip the gas, and push the clutch in and try again.
If still nothing, push the clutch, select a forward gear, then select neutral and pop the clutch, then try again for reverse.