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With the power that's going through my gearbox it's no surprise that it's started to give up the ghost a bit. Idler shaft is very noisy, bit of a crunch 1st to 2nd and sometimes baulks going into first.

Question is whether it's worth picking up a 2nd hand unit off of a standard car or whether anyone has experience of getting one rebuilt (if indeed this is economically feasible)?

When i get mine done i have a dogdy 1st to 2nd synchro i will be using this firm Olton Transmissions 0121 745 8089. They have done work on other RS cars in the past.

Loads of info on this over on AudiSRS. General consensus seems to be "buyer beware" when buying a 2nd hand box as many of them have worn synchros and/or whine. JHM do a full rebuild kit including the uprated synchro kit. It's not cheap to do a proper job though.

Blue_Thunder wrote:Loads of info on this over on AudiSRS. General consensus seems to be "buyer beware" when buying a 2nd hand box as many of them have worn synchros and/or whine. JHM do a full rebuild kit including the uprated synchro kit. It's not cheap to do a proper job though.

Thanks for that. Had a quick look for JHM but couldn't find anything?