wow.

[Larry C Leung]

Mine mad it 60K miles before it hammered the gearbox open. Then it did it
again at 118K. Not happy about that one part.... (all it is is some
stupid big headed rivit that supposed to hold the final drive pinion in
place. Should have been circlips, like the remaining VW gearboxes, and
the update post '87 boxes).

LL - NY

On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 19:52:35 -0800 Scott <Scott at TheHinckleys.com> writes:
>1986 VW GTi 1.8 8v w/ 5 speed
>Autocrossed and driven VERY hard for 165kmi before the first
>transmission
>work (new clutch).
>Wrecked by next owner at 175kmi :-(
>
>Scott
>
>At 12:28 18-11-01 -0500, someone wrote:
> >Thanks for the update. This occured in my Autocrossed GTi and my
>friend's
> >non-autocrossed A1 GTi, so I don't think the abuse is related, as
>I've
> >heard of it from all sorts of GTi, GLi models.
>