Hi Ho Hi Ho its to off the transmision shop I go.

**gecko2k** · 31-10-2012, 11:59 AM

Wow. Good progress, hope it works out well for you. Keep us updated!!!

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**Rebuild** · 31-10-2012, 03:48 PM

Regarding cleaning the filter, i would not chance it.
The opening is small and unless you dismantle it somehow(it has rolled edges) you would never be sure of removing all particles from the far corners.

They are cheap and easy to replace if the gearbox is open

**Sunny43.5** · 31-10-2012, 09:01 PM

I am not repairing the Transmission my self its at a specialist who has worked on this particular model many times so he has a good working knowledge of the box , he gave me the old filter as he will only replace with a new one , I am keeping the old one as evidence if required .

**Sunny43.5** · 13-11-2012, 06:06 PM

Final post for this thread I think , 2 emails to Germany both replied and was told that they would contact the Australian VW for some sort of reply . Well Jason Aqualine replied both times nice polite man with virtually no knowledge of VW,s it seems , he has rung me twice now each time after I made contact with Germany . He is just another VW hat wearing person , it does not matter what technical information you can explain to this person he hasn,t got a clue . I posed the question of what is meant by sealed for life , he does not know the answer I cannot believe that someone as high up in this company could be so out of touch with his companies vehicles terminology . I asked him to put himself in our shoes and how would hew react to the problem if it was his car , I should have just hung up it was such a waste of time . I have never found such apathetic responses to a customer with a legitimate problem . I knew in my mind that this would be the eventual outcome but hey if you don,t try it will just give them a higher level of arrogance and ignorance , with that in mind I will continue through other media to try and make a point , if I can get one outlet to climb on board I will be happy to make these Bastards squirm a bit .

**BrianJ** · 13-11-2012, 07:52 PM

It probably won't make you feel any better, but these gearboxes are in many cars in all countries of the world and have many failures. But from what I can deduce, you won't get anywhere until you can get enough failures and anger to get a class action going. Here is a link to the outcome of the Toyota 2001-2003 RAV4 AUTO failure settlement.
Toyota RAV4 Class Action Settlement

I know about this one because I owned the 2002 RAV4 before my current VW, although mine dod 100,000km and was still ok when I traded it. I think the quality of machines world wide is falling especially since the GFC in 2009.

Brian

**Sunny43.5** · 13-11-2012, 10:24 PM

Thanks Brian when I spoke to the man at VW I told him that I believed that because of Australia,s slack Consumer laws and the lacklustre authorities and their lack of power I believed that VW are just thumbing their noses at customers as they know that the consumer people have no power or ability to do anything against the big companies . When I mentioned that the class action was ongoing in the US with the Tiptronic auto that they fitted sealed for life to VW,s there I think he was surprised I actualy knew about it . I also told him that if we lived in China this would not have been tolerated as the Chinese Consumer laws came down very hard on VW because of problems they were having with over half a million customers VW were made to extend warranties to 160.000 km and ten years [wish our consumer laws were as good] What was interesting was an item in the Asian newspapers apparently three quarters of ALL complaints made to the motoring authorities over the last three in China were you guessed it VW owners . If you want a good read check this out http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/12/15/VWCA.pdf It is amazing that VW knew they had a problem with the Tiptronic auto and they just told customers that they should have found out about the problem while in warranty and as such the deny any responsibility for repairs etc shameful . It will be interesting to see what happens in the US .

**GUV** · 14-11-2012, 06:26 AM

Originally Posted by Sunny43.5

with that in mind I will continue through other media to try and make a point , if I can get one outlet to climb on board I will be happy to make these Bastards squirm a bit .

Can you just hold off until we all sell ours.

**Racemag** · 14-11-2012, 08:14 AM

If I understand it the general van must be to your liking.
So thinking outside the box: you current van is worth little and a new van is the best part of $50k.
So have you considered an engine/transmission transplant? Put a reliable and cheap to service Japanses engine and transmission in there? It would be a bit of stuffing around, but such swaps are not uncommon and I'd imagine the cost would be around $10k

**Sunny43.5** · 14-11-2012, 08:49 AM

The days of that sort of job for me have long gone , in my younger days I actually transplanted a Holden 186 motor and auto into a 1600cc Toyota Hi Ace van in the early seventies , did every thing myself manufactured engine gearbox mounts exhaust and tailshaft big job went like the clappers though . The main issue with the current one is that the engine is fine and every other thing about the van is okay as well its just a shame its been let down so low in klms by a dodgy transmission with ahuge repair bill . We are currently looking at some alternative options , today we are going to buy the new T5 outright the choice I have to make is do I sell the current one and try and recoup the money spent or do I sell my T5 petrol 2.0 lt work van and keep the diesel auto T5 for work and just keep running it on and getting some use out of the money spent to date . The work van is a manual and does not have the stigma the auto has so I might get more money for it who knows .