5th Gear Synchro Out?

[02PewterBird]

I posted this already, but I accidentally put it in suspension so I'm reposting.

I let someone drive my car for about five minutes last night and he couldn't get it into "third" gear for the life of him. I had to drive about 70 miles to a school thing today, and noticed that now when I shift to 5th at over 70 mph or so it grinds, kinda like when going to reverse without going to 5th first.

I think he was actually trying to put it into 5th from 2nd, so it was just grinding instead of going in. Could a few times of trying to put it in 5th and grinding actually make the synchro go out? I'm not sure what he was doing, but every single time he tried to shift to 3rd it would grind. I reached over and shifted normally, so I have no idea what his problem was except for it grinds going into 5th now.

[zerofailure]

OT: you normally shift in everyday driving going to 4th to 5th at 70MPH??? other then that i dont know what it could be man..

[ZeroDueceV6]

my 00 and my 02 have had the same problem. it just seems to me that 5th gear in the t5's suck. before i wrecked my 00 i had to have the tranny rebuilt for the second time in the short 6 months that i had the car i have had my 02 for 6 months now and the same thing that is happing to yours is happing to me again