Car Warranty \ pos failiong gearbox

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I'm really a nice guy. If I had friends, they would tell you.

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IIRC there`s a US based website that lists all the warranty recalls (publicised or not) and includes failures that the dealer can try to get customers to pay, despite them being authorised to repair FOC by the manufacturer for known defects.

Damned if I can think what the hell its called though :-} - i'm pretty sure its

though... If you can find something on there relating to VW knowing its a common problem and authorising free repairs, you might have more sway when you get to the dealer and / or rattle VW UKs cage.

She clearly hasn't read it properly as 99.9% of those policies are so full of weasel words that they're not worth the paper they're printed on.

my octavia did that, it was a rivet on one of the dif cogs that falls off, then the shaft starts nibbling as the box casing, and all that metal gets into the oil and the gears and makes a mess. the rod punched a hole in my case.

Waste of money! Basically they work like this, give the company your money and lots of it, if nothing goes wrong with your car all is fine just keep giving them the money, if something does go wrong, then after calling the company and some hassle, you may get some of your money back. The money you would pay for a policy, save it up. If your car fails, use some of the savings, if it does not great even better.

Sell your car now. Sell your car and never ever buy another. They ALL have faults that will manifest themselves.

Thank you for that insight into cars.

This is a particularly expensive fault.

Thats what I'm thinking as I've had little to no luck with these policies. I had one when I got the car chucked in from the place I bought it and it was utter crap, they wouldn't pay for a thing and sent me highlighted sections of the policy which said why, charming. In my experience of them not worth the paper they are printed on.

Thats exactly the problem, I have had a look at some photos on a golf forum and the holes in the casing look like bullet holes.

Ok, thinking about it in the cold light of day that sounds more logical.

Cheers

Yep, it's alomost a significant percentage of the first weeks depreciation on a new car.

Your opinion of course.

I bought a warranty from Warranty Direct for our Bora V5 when the VW one expired. It cost around £230 for 1 year with an extra month free. Within 3 months of taking out the warranty, our air con compressor packed up. Total repair cost was £900 which Warranty Direct paid in FULL.

If the OP's gearbox costs £1K to repair then that's approx 4 years worth of warranty payments. I'd rather have that peace of mind.

its called self machining syndrome

google it. Basically one of the rivets loses its head, stresses the others, and the crownwheel scythes through the casing. All my customers when working on these VW boxes replace the rivets with bolts as a matter of course. Saves the hassle of the customer coming back after a couple of years saying 'you were the last one to have your hands in my box'

The innards for this box (bearings, crownwheel) are my best selling items. Closely followed by Renault Master bearings, but that's another story!

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You must have been lucky/unlucky, I have had VWs for 20yrs and never had a major problem with any of them, nothing to gain on purchasing a warranty. I will have to check with a colleague as he had a Vectra and took out a warranty policy (may have been the same comapny you mention) however his cam belt failed and as such the engine was wasted, the warranty company was saying the gaurantee from the service should cover him, and did everything they could not to pay up, he had to scrap his car Vectra 2.4 1999 and has moved onto an Audi .

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Don't know where you are, but my daughter's '99 Lupo had a gearbox problem. Took it to an independent repairer close to Staines, Surrey and it cost just over £600, to remove, repair and refit. His opinion was that VW boxes are now only made to last for the 3 year warranty period, after that of course, it's your problem. In this case it was a bearing starting to break up, made more obvious when a few rollers came out with the oil. Seems to me you could ask around at independent gearbox specialists, and get it sorted BEFORE it smashes the box to bits, that way you get the repair done cheaper. Or you could sell the car now, and pass on the problem to some other unsuspecting person.