As usual, I decide to drive the thing to work and something new goes wrong. This time, its suddenly become very difficult to shift gears. The car runs fine, no weird noises from the transmission, but I have to use a lot of force to get the car through the shift points. I went in and made sure there was lubricant on all the joints I can see from the open shift plate, but still no go. As I was making sure to work in the lubricant, I noticed a metal on metal sounding squeal coming a bit further back under the arm rest. It got worse as I moved the shifter till it became quite loud. Probably the last of whatever lub was in there working out. Problem is I can't see how I can get access to look inside and/or lubricate whatever is making noise.