big eck
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The engineering place have taken the box apart and looked at the damage and it's worse than first thought. They thought it would just be replacing the bearings but the centre shaft is fucked as well.
Total cost to fix is £1170 all in and that was the cheapest place I could find 
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Daimo B
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Owwwwwwww
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3CorsaMeal
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it is a big job then to take the gearbox off on one of these?
or is most of that cost in the gearbox parts?
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Jambo
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Originally posted by Daimo B
Owwwwwwww
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Nath
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Jesus
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adiohead
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Did you try Vauxhall customer care?
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Tomnova16
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eating into the M3 fund
http://www.lemass.co.uk/ for all your automotive/bodyshop needs
Located in Chalfont st Peter
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big eck
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Taking the box off is a big job afaik. The subframe and everything else needs to come off.
That's £2800 been spent on new parts since the 25th of may.
It's not eating that much into the fund but there is no chance in hell I'll be selling the car for a penny less than the asking price now lol.
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Ian W
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Gutted
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big eck
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quote:
Originally posted by adiohead
Did you try Vauxhall customer care?
No point mate. It's out of warranty and been modded so they won't even touch it. There was another astra getting the box fixed in when I was there with the same problem as mine with only 29k miles on the clock. It was the diesel version tho.
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_Allan_
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I'm sure Cadbury's could have give a better price than that? 
 
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adiohead
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aah, ok
I'd of probably still tried my luck, removed mods and such
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Daimo B
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quote:
Originally posted by big eck
No point mate. It's out of warranty and been modded so they won't even touch it. There was another astra getting the box fixed in when I was there with the same problem as mine with only 29k miles on the clock. It was the diesel version tho.
For us, they wanted £500 just to split the box open to investigate. Then, IF it could be done under an investigation from Vauxhall, they may have repaired it, or offered part cost repair.
Or, if they didn't do that, we'd have had to pay a further £2200 for the replacement parts and labour. But they wanted £500 to get to this stage, which would leave us with a £500 bill, a split open gearbox, that still wasn't repaired.
Hence why we never bothered with Vauxhall. 
Shame your so far away, WarrenG offered me a much better quote. Depends if you know any vauxhall home repair nuts?
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big eck
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I contacted a guy called danny18 on aon and offered to help but then he just didn't bother lol.
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