I knew it was to good to be true, the cow has done it again. Yet another gearbox has died.
Yesterday we were driving up the M5 doing 80mph with the cruise control on, we had been down to Tiverton and were heading back at a steady pace, no welly just 80mph and getting around 29mpg when a warning message came on Transmission Service required! Mrs PA said the car lost drive and it seemed to go into limp mode. So she pulled on to the hard shoulder and stopped next to an emergency phone.
We rang for help and after an hour Green Flag arrived and recovered us to the garage we get the work done on the car.
They have just called us and said that there was a leak from the gearbox oil cooler into the gearbox and they had drained 9 litres of oil and water out of the box, there should have been four litres of oil. It seems that this is a common fault with these gearboxes as they had a design fault.
They refilled it with oil and tried to get her running but she is dead.
So now we have to find £2000 plus for a recon gearbox, the previous one was second hand, so this will be the third one.
To say Mrs PA is upset is putting it mildly, our 850 is off the road and in need of a fair bit of work to get her running. So things are not looking good at the moment. Talk about small brown objects hitting the fan, this is the last thing we need right now.
Has anyone got a 2001 V70 P2 T5 gearbox hanging around in their bedroom. or sitting on the dining table doing nothing?
Or does anyone think we should give up now?
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