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Well you've heard it all before! Mine decided to go about a 5 minute drive away from home after coming back from the polo show today!
The bloke who picked me up from the RAC and said had been a VW mechanic for 15 years strangely enough.
He mentioned a company called "Ace gear boxes" in Northampton as a good place to get a reconditioned box...has anybody used these?
If not can someone suggest where they got a reconditioned box? About every GTi owner now has had their box go so hopefully someone can point me in the right direction?
Yeah, well i heard noises from my clutch a while ago, possibly my thrust bearings that didn't sound too healthy, and i thought to myself that my gearbox sounds on its way soon also.
Then coming back round some country roads near my house, just heard a whining noise and thats when i thought "uh oh"....then *CLUNK* and i stopped! i was waiting nearly 2 hours for the RAC chap
Never got to play football after all lol, was good catching up with you again anyway mate.
I am REALLY apprehensive about this happening to my car, as I can't afford the expense, or inconvience of being without a car. Although I don't have any signs, I am overly warey of ANY noise i hear.
I am amazed VW have not taken note and seemed to have ignored/overlooked this major design fault. I can't believe how many 6n2 gti's it has happened to.
Not too bad a quote for the re-conditioned box, i assume labour for fitting is on top of that?
Fingers crossed you get it sorted without too much hassle.
I took my car in this morning to have my box looked at after some dodgy noises which have been getting worse recently. I'm not too sure about the price yet until the garage know whats up with it. Fingers crossed it's not a whole new box!