Faulty suspension valves.
High oil consumption.
Faulty suspension pipes.
Premature clutch failure.
Heavy clutch.
Jumps out of reverse.
Gearbox is starting to fail at 80K.
It's a nice car that would benefit from a VW engine and gearbox.
Your gearbox isn't failing. Remove the gear-lever cover. You will find a second cover inside the console (covering the hole through the cars bottom), it is ruptured and thus jamming the lever movement. Replace this cover and she will shift like new! All 16 and 19 (D) models start having this problem around 100.000km/60.000 miles...
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