[Merc for hire]

Hi guys. I am happy to join the 2 Series family. My previous car was an old 2000 BMW 323ci 5MT and I loved that car for the 3 years that I owned it.

Now after having my new 228i 6-Speed for a bit over one month. I noticed a rather serious problem right away.

The car has 2000 km on the odometer, and within the past 50 km or so. It started to develop problems downshifting to 2nd and only the 2nd gear 70% of the time. Upshifting from 1st to 2nd is perfect.

For example:
I am at 3th gear at 3000 rpm, clutch in, blip the throttle to about 4500, push the shifter into 2nd gear position, and it won't go in! The shifter would refuse to shift into 2nd gear until the engine has dropped down to idle and then it would finally open up the 2nd gear gate.

I have also tried double clutching. Which still did not help.

Is this an issue with the synchro? Or simply gearbox is not worn in yet.
This only happened in the past 50 km or so. Never had this problem on my old e46 BMW 5-speed with over 280,000 km

Thanks everyone and I hope this isn't a common problem.