Q: My 2007 manual cobalt is very difficult to shift in the cold.
It's been in the single digits all week. My car is a stick and it shifts perfectly fine either when it's warm out or whenever my car warms up but whenever it's cold my car is so freaking hard to shift. It takes so much effort to put it into gear and to shift while driving until it warms up. Why is this happening?
My car has 139500 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.
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