sc0ott
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Guy at work has a basic astra 1.9 cdti and its on around 50k miles.
The gearbox decided blow its load and vauxhall have quoted not far off £2000 to supply and fit a new one.
Did they fit these to any of the petrol engines excluding the vxr?
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gez bay
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mk2 focus rs has the same gearbox. not sure if anyone has heard of them blowing up though
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Eddx14xe
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Take it to warren, he will fix it.
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3CorsaMeal
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i'm suprised no one has confronted vauxhall yet, like M3 owners did with the alloy wheels that were cracking
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IvIarkgraham
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quote:
Originally posted by gez bay
mk2 focus rs has the same gearbox. not sure if anyone has heard of them blowing up though
is it exactly the same box though? or has it had different bearings or work done on it?
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Steve
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how come vauxhall dont offer to fix it rather then replace? its only a bearing or two usually needs doing
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3CorsaMeal
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they will charge you £2k, take your old box, then fit £10 of new bearings to that and charge the next person £2k for it.
its a great business plan really
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3CorsaMeal
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think you can sell someone a £23k car, then get another £2k out of them for it, and after 3yrs they buy the car of you for £6.5k
still, better to do that, then have an old car that might go wrong and cost you millions of pounds to fix
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gez bay
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quote:
Originally posted by IvIarkgraham
quote:
Originally posted by gez bay
mk2 focus rs has the same gearbox. not sure if anyone has heard of them blowing up though
is it exactly the same box though? or has it had different bearings or work done on it?
im not sure on different bearing ect, but i know its an M32 gearbox.
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markg87
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the petrol and diesel m32 boxes are diffrent, diffrent bellhousings if i remember rightly.
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smcGSI16V
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Location: Farnborough Drives: Thurlby 888 CDTi No.98
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
how come vauxhall dont offer to fix it rather then replace? its only a bearing or two usually needs doing
because they can't source the bearings and parts to replace them. Warren has to get the parts from elsewhere as vauxhall don't sell/stock them.
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Steve
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I dont mean to be rude m8, but naths dad works for SKF
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sc0ott
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quote:
Originally posted by gez bay
mk2 focus rs has the same gearbox. not sure if anyone has heard of them blowing up though
Blowing its load was an expression. I didnt actually jizz 
It did however fuck up.
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Jambo
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Your mate at work can't drive.
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Edd
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quote:
Originally posted by Jambo
Your mate at work can't drive.
yep gearbox has no known problems
i know a guy who has had three cars with these gearboxes and they where fine
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Jambo
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Exactly. If one or two are fine that means the other thousands must be shit drivers
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Mertin
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What gearbox was fitted to the vectra vxr?
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Nath
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
I dont mean to be rude m8, but naths dad works for SKF
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Ojc
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I heard M3s most overated performance car since the Civic Type R
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mwg
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Location: South Lakes
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Originally posted by Ojc
I had 3 and none of them went wrong so there is no problem with the M32 gearbox
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Corsa_Sport21
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quote:
Originally posted by Mertin
What gearbox was fitted to the vectra vxr?
F40.
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Nath
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I sold all my VXR's before this happened as I got scared
Knew it.
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3CorsaMeal
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CS trackday crew drive like girls imo, apart from AK who gives it the beans.
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Robin
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Registered: 7th Jan 04
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quote:
Originally posted by gez bay
mk2 focus rs has the same gearbox. not sure if anyone has heard of them blowing up though
Not the same box at all. The focus uses a Volvo unit, M66
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mwg
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quote:
Originally posted by 3CorsaMeal
CS trackday crew drive like girls imo, apart from AK who gives it the beans.
too much time thinking and writing about it on here and not enough doing
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