Gearbox died, is this normal?

Dr House

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I have a 2002 golf V5 with 100 000 km on the clock. The gearbox just died, it’s a 2.3 with a tiptronic auto sport box.

How is this even possible for a car of this age unless there was some sort of inbuilt fault.
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Gearbox failure seems fairly common on cars from the VAG within the last 8years or so, iirc Octavia's are quite bad for it, although most were replaced under warrenty.
 
VW gearboxes ain't what they used to be. My 99 Bora made a 2 inch hole in the bell housing when something went in the gearbox at 23,000 miles. Complete new gearbox, diff, clutch etc a week before the 3 year warranty ran out.
 
2 golfs with gear box problems in one day? :eek:

And from different decades aswell :eek:
 
MagicBoy said:
Complete new gearbox, diff, clutch etc a week before the 3 year warranty ran out.
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My best mate who originally worked for VW and now at Audi said they will try to do jobs like this as 'good will' if the cars not long out of warrenty.
 
moss said:
My best mate who originally worked for VW and now at Audi said they will try to do jobs like this as 'good will' if the cars not long out of warrenty.
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They were very decent with me. I drove in the next morning to ask if they could take a look. It was up on the ramps within 5 minutes and within 15 minutes I was driving to work in a loan Bora.
 
Paras said:
so no chance i can get something out of VW for this?

btw its only got 100 000km on the clock not 120
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Phonel them and see. You'll have a better chance if it's got a full VW Service History.
 
MagicBoy said:
Phonel them and see. You'll have a better chance if it's got a full VW Service History.
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Ahhh **** i knew I should not have got my friend in the skoda dealer to service it.

I will try tomorrow but I just spoke to a friend who does not think I have a chance. Could not have come a worst time, One of my engineers wrote off a Skoda last week on 3rd party insurance and I bought a flat 2 weeks ago
 
The gearboxes fitted to 97ish-2000 1.4 and 1.6 vag cars have a lot of problems with the rivets shearing on the crown wheel at around 30k miles. VW has a fix for this which involves replacing the rivets with bolts. This wont be the problem with yours though as its a totally different gearbox.

As for you gearbox you should look on the various VAG forums and see if its a common problem, you may find they will be more helpful with the repair costs if you can prove that you know its a common fault. Try phoning some independant transmission specialists and see if they have repaired many and also get a quote to rebuild yours, you will find it a lot cheaper than VW if they can do something with it.
 
dearbox dieing - normal apparently
costing silly money for an auto box replacement - definitely normal!
 
Well the funny thing is that VW said they would pay 80% of the cost


Until they saw that the last service was done in a skoda Garage and not a VW garage so they did not pay anything at all
 
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