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Box and clutch is all you need, though whoever's fitting it may not have the m8 spline drive male bit to undo the driveshafts. You'll need a gearbox code to order the box, it'll either be etg or ffw. Probably ETG. They may not take your old one back for the surcharge for if its a different code.

Buy the bearings and do it yourself, looks to be about £50 for the bearings. I may do a rebuild guide on these when i do mine, but dunno if anyone would use it!

Bet you they would use it!

I was going along the lines of most people would take it to a garage and spend £700 when all it needs is a weekend and £30!

CymruPolo wrote:No way am I doing it myself . The reconditioned box is going to cost me £360. No idea how much labour will cost. It should't be a crazy price though (I hope) my dad's mate who works for Skoda and an ex VW mechanic re doing it for me.

I would confirm with them if the recon box is just a 2nd hand box if it is, likely just another box that could go at anytime. If you get your bearings done on your current box it should be good for another 50k, labour costs to replace the bearings should be similair to getting the 2nd hand box. Also you could look at it if everyone gets 2nd hand boxes theres going to be none left very shortly !!

CymruPolo wrote:I've asked them and they told me the reconditioned boxes have had all the bearings changed and there's also a 2 year guarantee.

I got my current box fully rebuilt, at a cost of £360, not including labour, I asked them about a recon box but they advised that i would be better getting my re-built and bearings re-placed etc so thats what i did.

CymruPolo wrote:

thedees1 wrote:

CymruPolo wrote:I've asked them and they told me the reconditioned boxes have had all the bearings changed and there's also a 2 year guarantee.

I got my current box fully rebuilt, at a cost of £360, not including labour, I asked them about a recon box but they advised that i would be better getting my re-built and bearings re-placed etc so thats what i did.

I would do that but there's nowhere close that can do it for me except for VW and I'm not going to pay £70 an hour. So I have no option to be honest.

Ah i see, thats unlucky.

CymruPolo wrote:I've asked them and they told me the reconditioned boxes have had all the bearings changed and there's also a 2 year guarantee.

Thats what your looking for some places rebuild a recon box some don't looks like where your getting yours does it properly !!, with a 2 year warranty thats good aswell.

dont forget to get a release bearing if it doesnt already come with it.

I have rebuilded my gear box with following parts

New Final Gear Set:


New Bears:


After rebuild it, still have some noise, but much less than before