At the moment ive got a love hate relationship with my little GTI, I love everything about the car except for its stupid gearbox.
28th Feb '07 (at 47k) the cars original gearbox practically exploded leaving it stranded at the roadside and needing a new gearbox and clutch. I paid £1200 for a new Black Diamond sports clutch and a re-con Black Diamond gearbox (with 12month warentee).
19th Feb '08 (at 55k) the gearbox makes a terrible whining noise when in gear but off the gas, mechanic advises it is the gearbox differential over-run and replaces the box with another Black Diamond re-con under warentee. (although i had to pay £200 for him to fit it, as he advised that if we sent it Black Diamond to do the repair for free then they would knock it back due to my mods).
2nd March '08 (only 535miles on the latest box) whining noise has started again when changing up from 1st or 2nd gears, took it back to the mechanic. Who told me that it sounded like the diff over-run again and also that my warentee had expired on the 1st of March and that any parts and labour are likely to be chargeable.
Ive got absolutely no confidence in the gearbox in the Polo GTI and if I could afford to sell up and upgrade my car I would, but Ive gotta keep it at least until Nov '09 when i'll have paid it all off. (unless i downgrade to a more reliable but less exciting car)
From the experiences of all you other Polo GTI drivers once the gearbox has gone once am i likely to be looking at repairing replacing it every year? Or is there a chance that my next box might be a good one that lasts or all they all as crap as one antoher. Coz I just cant afford to shell out for multiple gearboxes on a car that has already had more spent on it that I paid for it in the 1st place.
If your gearbox has gone what did the mechanic say (if anything) was the cause of it?
Why wont VW acknowledge the 6n2 GTI gearbox issue as when i've spoken to them about it they advised that there are no known issues with the gearbox on this car!
(The lady i spoke to also tried to tell me that the Polo GTI shares a gearbox with the Lupo GTI, however when challenged on this she couldnt advise why the same gearbox on the Polo has 5 forward gears whilst on the Lupo has 6, muppets!)
