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Recently had my cat and parts of my exhaust replaced to try and get rid of a really annoying sounding vibration, worked for a few days. it rained and now the exhaust sounds terrible when it's a damp day and when i go through a puddle i get a sequence of short banging noises similar in sound as when ...

mine sometimes has a similar problem, causes the rev counter to go mental, happened after a recent gearbox, driveshaft and cat change, not too much hassle as it only rarely does it. 1400 miles with the only problems being a dodgy exhaust and taillight wiring. either goin back to a Mk3 or gettin a ...

would be cool to see it go in a straight line

had car in for MOT, passed, exhaust blows like anything though, but still it passed
asked the garage to check the rattling underneath (i suspected the cat guard)
They told me it was the cat itself, and that it has about 4 months left in it, and welding it would be constituted as being illegal
is ...

bout £70-90 depending on garages labour charge

it just gets worse, driving to work today i hear a loudd bang, and repeated banging noises, and have completely lost all acceleration, i'm beginnig to not like this car a lot

anyone know anything about rev counters? and why sometimes the dial is slow to respond and inaccurately displays the true RPM?

sorry, just noticed i've posted this twice

would erratic rev counter behaviour and excess vibration be a side effect of a gearbox replacement, just had a 2nd hand one put in as mine died, yet these problems weren't present beforehand. someone has said it could be the clutch slipping, but it was only done 10k ago, and it was fine before

yep, taking it back tomorrow, people have said irt may be the clutch slipping, it had one 10,000 miles back, bu as you say, it was fine before. good thing i haven't paid them yet

So, picked up my car from the garage after hours today, had it in to fit another gearbox, so far that seems fine, i now have a new set of problems, car car vibrates, a lot now, and the rev counter is behaving erratically, similarly like it does when the sparki plugs/HT leads are knackered, except i ...

its going again, £270 labour, new problems though which i'll present in a new thread

has been several weeks now but finally found a box, out of an R reg with 40k miles, only £150, hopefully it's not a dud, gets fitted tuesday. reckon labour costs are gonna get me, ut i'm happy nontheless. now just gotta treat it a bit better this time around

what if i take it up the garage and got them to take the broken metally bits out? would it keep working for a time? i can live without 4th gear for the time being

right, here again with another tale of woe from a polo.
Gearbox trouble today, i suspect it's a bearing got loose, read that whirring is the telltale sign in the early stages, i had that, didn't know was a problem at first, then the thing starts making the grinding bangings something crunching sound ...