2003 Passat TDI can't shift it in gear

Hello!

Yesterday I had a weird thing happen to me. Basically I was driving in the city in 3rd gear (manual trans) then I wanted to shift into 4th, but I couldn't, it felt like something was blocking it. So i decided to stop and investigate.
Stopped at a parking lot and tried to shift, but again failed. Now none of the gears worked. Then I shut down the engine, put it into 1st (I could move through the gears with the engine off), released the clutch and it drove off normally, then somehow I managed to get it into 2nd and 3rd. Soon I stopped again at a shopping mall for some groceries, went back and tried to move again, this time I needed to put it into reverse, but again - 0 success, the weird thing is that even with the engine off it was not going into reverse (other gears - fine).

Ok.. called a friend who towed the car home..

When we arrived I decided to give it one more try, and YES, I was able to shift through all of the gears with both engine on or off (including reverse).

Today checked it once more - everything seems normal. Clutch feels like always, no noises, nothing.

Can somebody explain this mystery? What the hell happened?

P.S. sorry for broken english

Broken English? At least you use caps and punctuation, unlike many here.

The only thing that I could imagine would be either a linkage issue, or something is up with the master and/or slave cylinder.

1854sailor said:

Broken English? At least you use caps and punctuation, unlike many here.

The only thing that I could imagine would be either a linkage issue, or something is up with the master and/or slave cylinder.

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It's the first time something like this happen.
So, should I keep driving it or..? As far as I understand this can and will happen again? Unexpectedly?

It's really a mystery how it "fixed" itself though.