My friends golf has just eaten its gearbox after just 50k it was only 4 years old! doesn't say alot for VW quality does it.

Luckily the local dealer said they could fit a VW exchange unit for

em dont think its just the golf that uses that gearbox....maybe wrong.

makes you wwonder when we all have VAG gearboxes

The 1.6 'rod change' box is a bit of a weak one. Not heard of that sort of failure in a while but quite often they can have troublesome changes.

You could have proberbly got a secondhand gearbox from a breakers for a lot less money including fitting.

My third gear went in my box, can't understand why.

the std gearbox is crap... it cant take much more than 250hp /280tq without dying.

my second box cost me 325 fitted.

when it breaks i will buy a third.

when it breaks i will buy a fourth.

......(repeat to fade)

the std gearbox is crap... it cant take much more than 250hp /280tq without dying.

my second box cost me 325 fitted.

when it breaks i will buy a third.

when it breaks i will buy a fourth.

......(repeat to fade)

Paul

she hasn't done anything yet so far we've got down to

My neighboor has a new Golf 1.6 Match and they have had 2 gearbox's fail in 4 month's. Car is only run around town mostly on school runs and never pushed hard. Don't know if it was the same fault on both gearbox's.

Paul

she hasn't done anything yet so far we've got down to

while driving down the road last night i got to the bottom of my road when i heard a sharp metal on metal bang and felt the car suddenly jolt as if i had slamed the brakes on, i continued to drive and it happened again, after the second time the gearbox started making a whining sound, after i pulled over i noticed the gearbox oil was leaking out of the box somewhere, i couldnt tell exactly where abouts on the gearbox the oil were coming from. The car has done 116k with full dealers service history and a female owner previous, i got the car with 111k and had nothing but problems with it, so far i have spent around