I dont have a cobalt so i cant figure this out on my own so, how do you get the cobalt in reverse, do you have to do something special or can you just slide it in?

EDIT: lemme know if my question doesnt make sense, i dont know how to describe it....

 

pull up on the shifter then slide it in

 

lol, thanks,! i changed it!

 

assuming you have an SS.. its a safety feature to keep you from accidently trying to put it in R

 

no no no no... not at all ill change it... i ment nothing bad

 

oh, ok sweet thanks!

 

np... did you just get the car?

now you can trick your friends & ask them to back it out & watch em freak out

 

The shift guard is there b/c we were originally going to have a 6 speed from what I have read.

 

I'm sorry, but how did you get the car home from the dealership if you didn't know this. Wow...some people just shouldn't drive.....

 

let me edit my 1st post. I dont have a cobalt I should have made it more clear, but when I do ill be more then glad to trick my dad and my friends, lol.

 

what does the guard have anything to do with haveing 6 speeds? i dont get it

 

From everything i know the transmission is right out of GM's saab 9-3 and therefor like all the saabs since an eternity ago you had to pull up on the shifter to put into reverse, it indeed was a safer feature from saab. Unlike saab though you dont have to leave the car in reverse to get the key out which i am assuming is called a reverse lock, yet another safety feature. So it should be there because its a manual saab transmission which saab's have had for forever or atleast i am lead to believe correct if im wrong

 

If you look at the shifter, and go to where you slide up to 5th, it hits the guard. Reverse is further over than on other manual trasmissions. 6th would have been right below 5th, and without that guard, you could have hit the slot to go to reverse.

 

He is right....Reverse is WAY THE HELL OVER THERE!!!!

 

Don't feel bad. My salesman couldn't figure it out either.

 

most manual's i've driven the reverse gear has been in an odd position. the t-5's in the 3rd gen f-body's was way over too

 

For the non ss, you dont need to pull up, it goes right in.

 

Reverse lock outs are nothing new and most people who have driven sticks for years will automatically just shift the right way when going into reverse.

 

Yeah, my Mom had to tell the salesman how to get it in reverse.

 

Way to go Mom

 

That really wasn't a nice post. I got my car all the way home before ever having to put my car in reverse. Then when I went to, I thought I had a broken car, My husband and brother in law were laughing at me because I couldn't figure out how to put it in reverse. My brother in law got into the car and he couldn't figure it out either. It took three of us including a Cobalt SS owner and we still had a hard time figuring out that you need to pull up on the ring to shift in reverse. The SS has a button to lock the reverse out, in the SS/SC you have to pull up on the ring under the shifter knob to put it in reverse.

 

wow, chill out. I didn't know when I was taking my cavy home 2 years ago. I had to use reverse once too, and had to wait until the guy parked in front of me to move first. Thankfully he was just leaving at the time. I had to check once I got home.

Oh yea, and if you look at the official cobalt 1/4 list, even though I'm the #1 spot in stock, I guess I shouldn't be driving.... sheesh, I wish I knew this when I was picking up my SS.

 

Ok guys after deleting 25 posts lets keep this subject going. No more flaming. As far as I think GM, is the only people that put the safety feature on the manuals. Of course I've never really seen/driven any other cars with manuals.

 

VW and i believe audi you have to push down and put it into reverse and i believe saab is the same way the cobalts are

 

the new eclipse gt has this feature too.