Anyone bought a gearbox from these guys?

[P34RC3]

http://www.volkswagenspares.com/page.php?page=Gearboxes

Im looking into getting a recon box. These guys sound like they know what their on about. Anyone delt with them before?

[kentphil1]

Most of the places on that estate are breakers yards and small units, have to say I have not come across these before down there, but in all fairness, I wasn't really looking.

 

You could check out someone like this - http://www.transmissionskent.com/, or this http://www.helicalgearboxes.com/ , both do their recon work on site and have good equipment. I should add I have no attachment to either, just seen a few of their jobs done through friends of mine.

 

Having said that, I'm sure there must be someone of equivalent quality up nearer to where you are based?.

[P34RC3]

I have no idea really. Ill have to ask around I guess. Are the rivets in the diff easy to replace?

[kentphil1]

Once the diff is out, then they are drilled out and replaced with bolts.............................................but to get to the diff is a gearbox strip, not so easy without appropriate tooling to reset it afterwards.

 

Most gearbox re-conditioners of repute belong to the same trade associations, perhaps see if the association has a re-conditioner in your area from their website?