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Sounds like your brakes are sticking. Possibly the emergency brake is not disengaging entirely? Stop the car and put in park. Apply emergency brake as hard/far as possible. Then release and put in drive and try to go. Most emergency brakes are self adjusting. If the problem still persists, have it taken to your mechanic.
Does it also hold first gear longer that it should and then shift right from 1st to 3rd? It sounds like you broke the sun shell in the transmission. The trans will need to replaced or rebuilt.
Is it only when you go from park to reverse? Or is it just as bad going from neutral to reverse? I've noticed on mine that it's often tight if I park on even a slight slope. If it only happens when going from park to reverse, try this. Hold your foot on the brake, and put the car in drive. Keeping constant pressure on the brake, go back to park, then back into drive. Did you feel the stiffness when you had your foot on the brake?
VW TRANS FOR YOUR MODEL ARE KNOWN TO HAVE WEAK REVERSE GEARS IF ITS CLICKING YOU PROB HAVE A BROKE OR CHIPED GEAR TOOTH IF ITS SOUND REAL WINEY ITS OK,JUST TAKE YOUR TIME IN REVERSE AND YOU RELLY DONT USE IT MUCH ANYWAY.IF ALL GEARS WORK FINE AND ONLY REAVERS IF GIVEING PROBLEMS I DONT RECOMEND HAVE IT FIXED
Sounds like a problem with the gear selector itself. These can wear and cause the problems you describe. Another possibility is that something underneath the car is interfering with the action of the gear selector. I recently had a car with a broken exhaust mount. As a result he exhaust had dropped into a different position and was preventing the free movement of the gear selector underneath the car. All gears could be engaged apart from reverse - so worth investigating.
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