Q: Gearbox gets stiff(self centred) after hour driving?

asked by on March 06, 2017

After hour of driving gearbox gets stiff (self centred) in nutral not moving right to left.Difficult to select gear one and reverse.What problem could be ?

My car has 9300 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.

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