Cannot get manual trans into reverse

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Rexthedog
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Suddenly I lost the ability to get my Manual trans 991.2 into reverse.
Anyone have any experience with this?
2018 911 Carrera

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I ran into a situation last year where I couldn’t bring the shift lever far enough over to the left to get into reverse. Mine is a 981 Cayman which has a 6 speed instead of a 7. Mine ended up being a shift cable came loose from the bracket that holds it in place above the transmission. It was just a matter of popping it back into place. I haven’t had an issue since. I had to jack up the car to crawl underneath it and set my camera on video to record what the linkage was doing while I tried to shift gears.
Hopefully yours is something simple like that.

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Rexthedog
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researching it tells me the same thing, thanks for your feedback.

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