Wrong gearbox from ACE GEARBOXES!

1 GTI · Post by **1 GTI** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:03 pm

Had my VW mechanic tonight to take out my GTI box and replace it with a re-con box from ace gearboxes. He looked at the box and compared it with my old one and they've sent me a box for a 6N1 VW Polo 1.4 8V, how they can make that mistake when I gave him my transmission code aswell. Can anybody else confirm their transmission code with mine please, mine is FFW and the engine code is AVY. Cheers people

Dee-vub · Post by **Dee-vub** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:53 pm

That is extremely careless! I hope they give you a considerable discount for completely wasting your time!!

Sorry, but cant help you out with the codes mate. Good luck with it though

hurricane · Post by **hurricane** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 11:39 pm

it should be in your service book at the front : vehicle data

engine ARC my trans code on my gti says ETG

hope this helps matey

Jay

1 GTI · Post by **1 GTI** » Tue May 01, 2007 11:33 am

Phoned up Ace this morning and told them what happend and he said can you change the bell housing over because he's sure the internals are for a GTI, told him to bugger off. Asked him for my money back and told him to come and collect the box. I can re-build mine for Â£450 with this guy I know, so im dropping it off to him this afternoon. Thought id let you all know whats happening

Dangerous Dave · Post by **Dangerous Dave** » Tue May 01, 2007 12:13 pm

1 GTI wrote:Phoned up Ace this morning and told them what happend and he said can you change the bell housing over because he's sure the internals are for a GTI, told him to bugger off. Asked him for my money back and told him to come and collect the box. I can re-build mine for Â£450 with this guy I know, so im dropping it off to him this afternoon. Thought id let you all know whats happening

It is true the casings are the same across the engines, I've heard of a GTi that had the internals put in a 1L boxes casing as the GTIs casing was damaged. I would however get yourbox rebuilt at least you know the full history of it and that all the required bits will get replaced.

1 GTI · Post by **1 GTI** » Tue May 01, 2007 12:17 pm

It will have 12 months warranty aswell. I've spent so much on my GTI and it's starting to annoy me now, but there's something about the car which I love, lol

LiverpoloGTi · Post by **LiverpoloGTi** » Tue May 01, 2007 5:46 pm

1 GTI wrote:I've spent so much on my GTI and it's starting to annoy me now, but there's something about the car which I love

I know that feeling oh too well,

1 GTI · Post by **1 GTI** » Mon May 07, 2007 5:27 pm

Car all sorted now. Got it done in the end at a garage about 10miles from where I live. Had my gearbox re-built for Â£425 cash including 12 months warranty. Gearbox feels lovely now, hopefully it will for a while aswell. Had some more bad luck, got my MOT this month and 2 bald tyres in the back. Just ordered 2 goodyear F1's from mytyres.co.uk, awesome site for tyres. Let you know how it goes

ModifiedMadness · Post by **ModifiedMadness** » Mon May 07, 2007 5:29 pm

Regarding the Goodyear Eagle F1's, make sure they have 'Made in Germany' on the sidewall.

There are some 'Made in Taiwan' tyres going around that aren't E-Marked for this county

1 GTI · Post by **1 GTI** » Mon May 07, 2007 5:40 pm

I've got 2 on the front now, not sure what they are though. I'll check them now. Thanks for that mate

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