I guess I gotta wonder about someone who doesn't know the shifter is sloppy. Although I guess if your car has always been sloppy you just might not know any better.
In any gear, your left and right shifter movement should be an inch or less. Yes, if the bushings are shot, getting out of gear is sloppy, but that isn't the usual complaint, its just getting into gear is 'experimental'.
I gotta say at one point my first Capri, a 93 na, started getting stiff getting into first gear. It took real effort to push into gear, almost to the point of worrying about breaking something off. Within a few months it worked itself out, I never knew what the issue was...Chris
