Grrrrrrrrr

bristolgeezer · Post by **bristolgeezer** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:12 pm

Bloody gearbox is shafted

went to go out at 4 and its whining like a beauty in all gears and sounds rough as, so i drove round the block and parked it back up,

gonna have to ring around tomorrow getting some quotes on the gearbox, what would you guys recommend getting a new box put in or get the current one reconned?

gonna have to post pone powerflow too

cheers,

ash.

mk4 glx 1.6 · Post by **mk4 glx 1.6** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:43 pm

I'd only get the box reconditioned. I don't think any 'new' ones are available, and wouldn't trust a company who say they have reconditioned ones off the shelf.

Sorry to hear that, hope you get it fixed wihtout too much time off the road / expense

.

Post by **alexperkins** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 6:03 pm

Ouch dude thats bad news. Recon box from VW is Â£900 and its an exchange part so theyll take your old one in part ex.

gazmangti · Post by **gazmangti** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 9:06 pm

Sorry to hear about the gearbox. Take it to glouster road gearboxes and they will put a recon box in.

I bought a genuin clutch from vw which cost about Â£90. Gave it to them and the apparently the flywheel needed skimming and did the job lot.

I think to supply and fit the new clutch and gearbox costed about Â£750

If you just want the box doing it's Â£500.

Mine was done six months ago and it's still sweet.

Give them a call.

Dont go to bristol transmisions.

r_penny23 · Post by **r_penny23** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 10:35 am

Dont go to bristol transmisions.[/quote]

Yeh, really don't go to these guys, mine was sent there last year and It came back with more problems than when It went.

bristolgeezer · Post by **bristolgeezer** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:42 am

gazmangti wrote:Sorry to hear about the gearbox. Take it to glouster road gearboxes and they will put a recon box in.

I bought a genuin clutch from vw which cost about Â£90. Gave it to them and the apparently the flywheel needed skimming and did the job lot.

I think to supply and fit the new clutch and gearbox costed about Â£750

If you just want the box doing it's Â£500.

Mine was done six months ago and it's still sweet.

Give them a call.

Dont go to bristol transmisions.

i gave them a call and they wanted a hell of alot of money, 580 plus vat for the recon, 200 plus vat if the case was damaged and 180 plus for labour!

its being done at mr clutch, 910 including vat and labour.

r_penny23 wrote:Dont go to bristol transmisions.

Yeh, really don't go to these guys, mine was sent there last year and It came back with more problems than when It went.

lucky they weren't open today then cause i did try ringing them :p

bristolgeezer · Post by **bristolgeezer** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 12:47 pm

even more grrrrrrrrrrrrr ing now

was promised the car back today but when they went to fit the gearbox the company that rebuilt it had used the wrong bell housing!!

any guesses who the culprits were?........... bristol transmissions!

they had my old gear box there with them so surely they'd notice the difference?! not happy now, even the guy from the garage re-fitting the box couldnt understand how they'd got that mixed up!

i'm hoping for it back monday so powerflow can now have it monday evening.

ash.