Peugeot 206 goes forward instead of reversing?

Ok so occasionally when I'm going to park, I put it in reverse but it just goes forward until it stalls. I first discovered this when I was parking in a car park. I then put the clutch in and went back into reverse but it just carried on going forward into a stall. In the end I just had to move off again and redo the park, but when I turn the engine off and on again it's fine. At first I thought it was because I was going into 4th which would explain the stall but it doesn't make sense. It happened again in tesco when I wanted to reverse to correct my parking but it also went forward + tyre screeching? It happened again 2 days ago I was parallel parking. I keep making sure that it's not in 4th and I go back and forth from neutral to reverse to make sure but it doesn't work until I restart the car. Has anyone else's car or peugeot done this? I'm getting my dad to look at the car but it's a weird one. It is a relatively old car, got it from a previous female owner who was 17 and she managed to hit a lot of things including scrape the kerb so hard the hubcap squashed and god knows what else lol.

Appreciate any comments.

(edited 7 years ago)

Reply 1

username2387497

I have a feeling something is wrong with the gearbox. Maybe its not going into reverse and its slotting the mesh into 4th?
Id take it to a garage though to get it fully checked out!
If shes hit a lot of things, that could have something to do with it!
She doesnt sound like the best driver and might have ****ed the gearbox!

Reply 2

mrpopodopalaus

Original post by FireFreezer77

I agree that she might of messed it up, it's due for MOT at the end of the month anyways. Cheers for the reply.

Reply 3

randomgeeza

My Polo would go forward like it was in first gear when I would reverse. Took it to the mechanic and he tightened a few nuts near the gearbox or something and it fixed it. Literally took him 5 minutes at most to figure out what was going on and fix it.