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- From: aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.vw
- Subject: Re: * Tranny grind turned to broken GTi*
- Date: 15 Nov 1992 18:37:11 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <milo-151192102730@mielo.dorm.rutgers.edu>
- Reply-To: aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer)
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- In a previous article, milo@dorm.rutgers.edu (james mielo) says:
-
- >
- > HELP HELP HELP. I have a 90 GTi with 38k and it's broke. I wrote earlier
- >about grinding in the tranny 1-2 shift. Well, to day something went
- >drasticlly wrong.
- >
- > MY GTI IS DEAD. Earlier, I had the pinion pop off and grind up the
- >tranny. No problem, VW gave me a new 1st,2nd gears plus synchro and
- >hardware free.
- >
- > Didn't stop grinding so I called the VWOA number and they suggested it
- >might be normal. I thought it was normal based on what everyone on the
- >board has told me. So, I just didn't pay it much attention. I even put the
- >redline fluid on order.
- >
- > Then, this morning I get a call from my brother ( I loaned him my car).
- > The car has quit. Second gear will not engage. The car shutters on
- >acceleration in all gears and all gears with grinding noises. The grinding
- >noise is less pronounce in the lower gears( 1st quitest-5th loudest) The
- >clutch engages but makes a tumping noise . plus the idle lumpy.
- > Sounds like the clutch is a goner or at least a bearing or something
- > I was thinking it could be the tranny but am not sure.
- >
- > I need some help on this and fast
- >
- >James Mielo
-
- take it back to VW, bitch, bitch, bithc more! tell them that you called
- and that you were told that the noize was normal..even if the thing is
- no longer under the warrentee(you didn't say what kind the new stuff
- came with), but you DID DO SOMETHING while it was still under warantee,
- they may do something about it..they did for me....then they tried to
- charge me for a clutch, after the one that got burned up was BRAND NEW!!
- mind you, we wrote the dealer a nice, neat letter, telling them that
- they could take a camshaft and shove it up their ....well..or VWoA was gonna
- refund the cash we paid for the clutch change when it was THEIR fault it
- was gone..we promptly were refunded 200 of the 300 bucks...so..it wasn't
- perfect..but bitching, even though the car was no longer under warantee,
- did get the job done..they changed the bad seal on their rebuilt tranny
- for free, and changed the oil soaked clutch (also their fault do to the
- missing seal on the tranny!) for 100bucks...coulda been better, but woulda
- been much worse if i'd tried to screw with it myself..woulda cost about
- as much after chasing parts and down time, not to mention lack of
- facilities!..well...that is my suggestion, good luck with it!
- DREW
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