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pandaman:
Recently had trouble with 1st gear. Sometimes it's hard to put it into 1st and a few times it's actually got stuck in 1st gear and required a worryingly large  amount of force to get it out, once on a roundabout too.(that was fun)

After some googling turns out early 02q boxes are.prone to this problem, it could be solved by adding a shim or by the sounds of it a new box might be in order.

On my interwebbing travels I saw that @Pudding had similar problems and ended up with a 2011 TSI Scirocco gearbox with a custom shim. Found one on eBay for £300ish with something like 48k on the clock supposedly.

Will any 02q box fit? Are there ones that are better than others? Any to avoid? And any other things I should be doing whilst the box is off and easy to access??

Cheers

 

pandaman:
More searching led to this post by pudding a couple years ago.

https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,126407.0.html

Seems to answer my questions, any other advice appreciated though!

pudding:
Yeah exactly the same issue I had, especially getting it out of first when rolling in traffic. Super annoying.  It was always fine when cold though, just got progressively worse the hotter it got.

Simply swapping over to the MK6 gearbox solved everything and it's been sweet as a nut ever since  :smiley:  My old MK5 gearbox wasn't utterly shagged or anything. No excessive shaft play etc, I guess it was just super tired at 150 odd K miles.

Any 2.0 petrol turbo box will fit, from the 2009 to 2013 era....so basically Golf 6 GTI, Scirocco TSI etc.

breeze:
Be a bit careful with advertised mileages for gearboxes.

If they give a VIN/Reg to check mileage that is a good start, sometimes it is pretty obvious (like if the seller is on eBay only selling parts from a 2011 Scirocco, including clocks at 48k, your box advertised at 48k might be genuine). Just don’t trust the advert and do some research. Still a bit of a gamble, but hopefully can reduce risk.

pudding:
True, but you can spot a VW gearbox casing that has 150K miles worth of wear and tear on it vs a 48K one.   Breakers are too lazy to deceive people like that.

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