... then my mate thought "OH i'll tighten up this cable for the big man" ... to which i knew nothing about 
till tonight i thought, think i'll take the 320 a spin ..... all was fine till ?? no gear change from the Auto box!! my mate told me later that he had a go at tightening a cable, to which he pointed at a cable which runs from the acc/ linkage to the gear box, i tried to slaken it of but it actualy feel's like it's came off at the gearbox end? is this posable ... would this effect the Auto box from changing gear??sorry i'm slightly tippsey ... and i'm not best
at the best of times at describing fault's! 
thanks ED ... you wouldn't happen to know what the gearbox end of the cable look's like (picture?) all looks well at the engine/linkage end, just feel's like there is to much give in the cable? i think my mate has slackened it off instead of tightening it? .... the dam thing was changing gear fine tooo! 
.. i think he may have givin it to much slack and it may have came of at the gearbox? (if this is posable) and to top matter off, i found a hole the size of a 50p, right in the bottom corner of the drivers footwell 
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i'll be moving it to a rather large shed in a few week's so i'll gather some parts together for then and 
i left the house about 10:30 this morning and ive only just came in .... and most of that time was spent out on my driveway, cleaning 