Get lost. What I meant was it is a forum aimed at motor enthusiasts and often have trained mechanics on there that know what they're talking about. I'd much more be inclined to listen to those, than car dealers themselves.
Wrong gearbox oil
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Get lost. What I meant was it is a forum aimed at motor enthusiasts and often have trained mechanics on there that know what they're talking about. I'd much more be inclined to listen to those, than car dealers themselves.
So you mean the people trained the same as the people you took the car to!?
Excuse me? You and the others are the ones with all the rude condescending comments. If you have nothing productive to say, don't post. Simple as.
They're trained, they just failed to see the necessity to use the correct oil.
Can you prove it? Stranger coincidences have happened.
Anyway just drop the oil and replace it yourself with whatever you like, job done. People are now just on the wind up and you're biting
Can you prove it? Stranger coincidences have happened.
Anyway just drop the oil and replace it yourself with whatever you like, job done. People are now just on the wind up and you're biting
I can't, and that's the plan. I'm not biting any more. I've RTM the thread, and requested its closure. Sick of the attitude in this place.
I'm done.
Seriously, chill out man, you'll give yourself a hernia at this rate
It's more likely that you have an issue with your clutch than that the garage used the wrong oil. Maybe the clean oil changing the characteristics of the gearbox emphasised an underlying issue that was there before.
If you dont want to accept that then its your issue, but you're working yourself up over very minor and unoffensive remarks made by strangers on the internet
Ahahahahahahahaha. Let's listen to Barry on the internet
Everyone knows Steve is the guy to listen to
TBH, the RX8 forum I go to 100% knows more than any Mazda dealer currently I know of... so, in certain circumstances, I would take the knowledge (within reason) off a forum as opposed to a dealer. Remember, I've just took JEEP to court for fitting a gearbox to a JEEP (Brand new) and it's took them THREE yes 3 Gear Boxes to get it right!!! That's a dealer... and they caused orther problems while it was there. Bear in mind, their poor fitment of the original cooler caused my heartache in the first place!
So, in the replies that go on about reading off forums as opposed to dealers, yes in certain circumstances you should just incase! Use every available knowledge source!!! but rely on NONE 100%
Also, is that not what every single person in here does? get advice of other enthusiasts? if you don't want that, I'm failing to see why people would post anyway surely? Do we not post questions to get opinions, i.e. LIKE THE ORIGINAL OP DID?
So, in the replies that go on about reading off forums as opposed to dealers, yes in certain circumstances you should just incase! Use every available knowledge source!!! but rely on NONE 100%
Also, is that not what every single person in here does? get advice of other enthusiasts? if you don't want that, I'm failing to see why people would post anyway surely? Do we not post questions to get opinions, i.e. LIKE THE ORIGINAL OP DID?
Thanks dude, a helpful post. There are too many muppets in here that like to just wind up people - they forget it's real people they're offending and upsetting.
And as others have said, even if changing the oil isn't technically needed, it is a consumable item and (if the right stuff used) should do only good for the car. I bet all the people in here saying I'm a moron for doing it haven't even owned a TSI engine...
What's the relevance of your TSI engine?
I bet all the people going around changing their gearbox oil haven't owned a V12.
FWIW I'm not saying you do have a clutch problem, just calling out the silly comment about a garage blaming a stiff gear change on a clutch as being a sign of incompetence.
If they really have put DSG oil into your gearbox I'm a little surprised if it had such a significant impact on the shift quality. The oil viscosity appears to be the same and the active parts of direct shift gearbox are fundamentally the same a a manual box i.e. it's a constant mesh design that uses the same type of synchromesh system to synchronise gear speeds. The only major difference is that the older DSG boxes have wet clutches which may require some specific oil formulations to work correctly.
Also, as others have said, it would be an expensive mistake for the garage as the VW DSG oil is far from cheap. It's also rather obvious if a gearbox is a manual or DSG just from inspection, and the fact that one has an H pattern shift lever between the seats.
That doesn't rule out the incorrect oil being used of course, you might have engine oil in the box, or they have used a generic non-VW spec oil.
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The DSG oil i've seen looks and feels thinner to normal gearbox oil. Also doesn't the DSG box contain an oil pump meaning the oil is operating under different conditions anyway?
I'm starting to wonder if the OPs gearbox has been filled with enough oil?
I was told by the "head mechanic" at a Vauxhall dealer that the reason my fuel gauge didn't work was because the price of diesel had gone up.
I don't understand why you all think it's so unlikely that someone put the wrong oil in.
Didn't someone on here recently have a brand new car delivered that was an auto and not a manual or something?
I don't understand why you all think it's so unlikely that someone put the wrong oil in.
Didn't someone on here recently have a brand new car delivered that was an auto and not a manual or something?
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I don't put much faith at all in dealer mechanics, at a Mazda main dealer at the 4 or 5 year service they changed the spark plugs on my wifes 2.0 MX5 and fitted the wrong plugs... Took me months to diagnose the weird driving problem and i ended up changing the plugs for the correct ones myself.
I've got something similar with my Accord. Had the clutch, master and slave cylinders replaced and since then when the car is cold it's quite difficult to put it into gear or change gears. After it's warmed up no problems. I took it back a number of times to the garage and they claimed that they had checked it and found no problems so I just put up with it now. Only affects me for the first 2 or so minutes of driving.
Most dealers, independant or Skoda etc, want to do as little work for as much profit as possible, as it is a business. Why would they not trust their "£1000 per year system" to give them the right code? Doesn't mean it is, or that they would care that they've used the wrong stuff.
I'm simply going to just change it myself when I can.
I'm simply going to just change it myself when I can.