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Can anyone tell me why there has been so many problems with GTI 6n2 gearbox??

Is it a common fault ?

I think volkswagen should recall all of our cars and fit brand new state of the art gearboxes!! ha ha ha

It seems like every other person on the forum is having gearbox problems. Soo Annoying. Touch wood mines been ok.

I dont think theres any chance of a recall. Somebody sent a letter to vw its on here somewhere.

If only they woud recall them.

They recalled them for pedal boxes.

Why not gearboxes ??

I guess it all comes down to how much it'd cost financially to do all that.

So i guess as has been said before, we'll have to get use to driving a nice car with a s**t gearbox

Thats all that seems to be cropping up on the forum at the moment!

I hate VW for snubbing the Polo GTi about this, surely they realised a long time ago...

Yup. They've made all the money there going to make on these cars now, so they wont recall them unless its a safty issue.

olop_chris wrote:Thats all that seems to be cropping up on the forum at the moment!

I hate VW for snubbing the Polo GTi about this, surely they realised a long time ago...

Course they've known about it, or they wouldn't have changed the lupo gti from 5 speed to 6 (The very first loops were 5 speed)

As the lupo gti uses the same Avy engine in the later 6n2 Gti's

RICHARD HARPER wrote:

olop_chris wrote:Thats all that seems to be cropping up on the forum at the moment!

I hate VW for snubbing the Polo GTi about this, surely they realised a long time ago...

Course they've known about it, or they wouldn't have changed the lupo gti from 5 speed to 6 (The very first loops were 5 speed)

As the lupo gti uses the same Avy engine in the later 6n2 Gti's

Yeah i know that mate, Im just suspicious that they knew all along and tried to cut back on costs in the first place...hoping that it would last long enough for them not to have to be involved through warranties. Who knows ey!

RICHARD HARPER wrote:

olop_chris wrote:Thats all that seems to be cropping up on the forum at the moment!

I hate VW for snubbing the Polo GTi about this, surely they realised a long time ago...

Course they've known about it, or they wouldn't have changed the lupo gti from 5 speed to 6 (The very first loops were 5 speed)

As the lupo gti uses the same Avy engine in the later 6n2 Gti's

The change on the lupo gti from the 5 to 6 speed box was unrelated to the failure of the polo gti boxes, there aren't any problems with the lupo gti 5 speeds and the 6 speed is simply the 5 with another cog (and lower ratios), they just added it to increase drivability and help justify the high price of the car. The lupo sport gearboxes seem to have exactly the same problem as the polo gti's though !