A lot of newer cars have a "lever" you must lift to shift into reverse. It's a safety feature to keep from throwing your car into reverse instead of 5th gear. Mine is a ring right below the knob that you lift up. See if you car has something similar.
Shading coils provide a phase shift between the magnetic field of the rotor and stator, which is necessary to get the motor spinning.
It is a type of transmission where you can shift forwards to backwards or the other way around with out having to come to a complete like normal tractors have to.
The direction of the current flowing through it must be changed after every half rotation. Otherwise, when the north pole of the coil comes near the south pole of the magnet, there will be attraction between them and the coil will stop rotating.
Non-uniform magnetic field and a phase shift of 120 electrical degrees will occur.
As anything to do with timing values for an electronic system of controlling a motor. Based on the question, the simple answer is that the capacitor causes a 90 degree lead which allows the motor to have a magnetic shift which causes the motor to start rotation.
There are several things that can cause your manual transmission not to shift out of first gear or reverse. The most common cause is a broken shifting fork.
Check the motor mounts
if its like other VW's, push down and then shift LIKE going to 1st gear, but its in reverse..
Some manual cars have a safety built into the reverse shift of the transmission. You need to push the shift knob down, and then over into the reverse gear.
if its not warm mine does that too. try reving the motor when you shift and see if it stays running. it doesn't do it when warm though...
Check with vehicle on level ground Engine at normal operating temperature Start @ park Shift to Reverse Shift to Neutral Shift to Drive Shift to Low Shift to park Then check Level on dipstick DO NOT OVERFILL
Top of the transmission.. on a manual shift, it should be just behind and to the left of the shift column.
the reverse safety back up switch is located on top of the transmission next to the clutch resivior
it could be the shift linkage being that both gears over there wont work
No they did not produce a V6 stick shift. If you want a manual you have to motor swap down to the 4 cylinder motot
shift to nutral,then move lever to reverse
I know on the 06 Z4 you just have to pull toward you a little harder, its kinda spring loaded reverse and first are side by side they do this to keep you from shoving it in reverse on a shift down.