Lost Drive

[AD90]

I have lost drive in my 51 plate 1.9tdi manual (6 speed)

Any ideas? I have heard a report that the driveshafts can pop out, any truth or am I looking at a gearbox rebuild?

Thanks

AD90

 

[Goz]

Hi AD90,
my 02 plate 1.9TDI shot a drive shaft a few years ago, about 3 months before the warranty expired (fortunately!). Lost drive completely and sounded like a high speed metallic sound. Don't know how much or how difficult it was to fix as done under warranty.

 

[TimsBamma]

Hi Did it go bang when turning left or right? If you try and engage drive does it graunch and sound like a bag of spanners?

If so you may have what has happened to me a month ago (02 115PD manual @ 70007 miles)

The offside intermediate shaft has a male splined end at the gear box end of the shaft and this mates into a female splined unit that connects to the gearbox.

the splines tend to fail (dealers are aware) cost (£298 parts and 1/1.5 hrs labour.

Ouch

 

[AD90]

Thanks Goz & Tim,

It is the splines that are stripped, I removed the old parts yesterday and have tried to get the parts today. Although it's a common failure, there is not a Seat or VW dealer between Inverness and Glasgow/Edinburgh who has the parts in stock. I guess it's a sign of the times, most folks would be happy to have their car towed to the garage and wait ~3 days.

Lots of info and pics on here:

http://www.fordgalaxy.org.uk/ford/index.php?showtopic=10745&hl=drive+shaft


Cheers

AD90

 

[TimsBamma]

Hi

yep I'm TimsBamma over there as well...

Was that thread that made me think d'oh I know what that is, when I suffered the same fault.

 

[AD90]

Got the bits today from my local Seat dealer. £261 after a 10% discount.

I have also written a letter to Seat UK expressing my concern about the fact that they have not issued a recall for this known and potentially lethal problem. I cited land Rover as an example of a responsible car manufacturer, they recalled a huge number of Defenders and Discoverys that had a similar problem (failure of an unlubricated spline)

I will let you know how I get on.

AD90

PS. Part Numbers for a 51 plate 115PD: 02N409344E & 02N409345