Hi All,
I have a 1998 Golf IV 5 speed manual that has done 92000kms. The last 6 months has been hell for me with this car. it's a beautiful car and i'm very disappointed i'm having problems. Below is what has occured. Please let me know if you have any ideas on the following.
Purchased 2nd hand in 2001. Previous owner had installed the golf GTi suspension and 16inch after market wheels (which makes it look very cool).
Anyway no problems at all until my reverse gear somehow ended up with a chipped tooth in July 03... $4K later i basically have a brand new gear box.
1 week later driving along minding my own business when crack and grind........ my cv joint and bearings go on the left hand front. Noone can give me an answer why the cv joint blew itself to pieces with no prior warning of wearing or any other signs. I dont do burn-outs or drop the clutch or anything like that may have caused it. gearbox repairers deny any fault or connection. which would be anybodies first thoughts being 1 week after it got the gearbox job done.$500 later i had a new cv joint and bearings.
December 03.......driving along minding my own business again when crack and grind.......the 6 month old cv joint blows itself to pieces again. my poor golf on a tow truck for the second time in 6 months.
It is currently at the guy who has done all the work on the car so far. he cant work out why it keeps breaking or why it broke in the first place. The gearbox repairers dont know why, the cv joint suppliers dont know why, VW workshop doesnt know why. some say it could be the gti suspension, but i'm not sure how that is possible. they are basically blaming everybody else with me stuck in the middle with a very fast decreasing bank account.
HELP!! Anyone have any ideas what would be the cause of my cv joints to keep busting????
Thank you
John