Technical How long should a gearbox last??

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Technical How long should a gearbox last??

thats not good...

mine has 19,945 miles! mine has been making a bad noise for a couple of weeks now took it in to dealer today and they said it was the gearbox... so very annoyed! gonna make a complaint to fiat head office!

just out of interest... what year/model is yours?
 
Are we talking 1.9 diesels here by any chance? If we are then the answer to the question is about 17minutes and 43seconds.

I'd argue that it isn't unreasonable to expect a gearbox to last the life of the car but I somehow suspect that fiat will wash their hands of it if the car is out of warrenty.
 
mines a 2007 (57plate) 1.2 active

everyone i have spoken to says that a gearbox should last the life of the car... i also have that feeling they will wash their hands of the problem as i have red a lot of other forums that this is what fiat do best :(
 
So that's the 1.9 diesel, the 1.2 petrol and the t-jet. The starjet is also known to give problems so if we get a 1.3 diesel that's pretty well every car in the range. Good work fiat.
 
My 1.9 sporting needed a rebuild at 36,000 miles, which was a pain in the arse as I had only just bought it and didnt notice.

Luckily got it done on the warranty but the bearings had gone and it cost £950 for a rebuild.

Symptoms were whining in 1st and 2nd and gear stick moving in all gears except 3rd and 4th.
 
done 31k mile and working just fine t-jet
and by the way driving in Egypt destroys gearbox easily.
 
i had 06 plate 1.2, it had 111,400ish miles when i finished with it. only thing to ever go wrong once was the gear linkage.
 
I've never had a gearbox go on any car I've ever had.

Even on my 15yo 1994 Punto's gearbox was still going strong when I junked it. I junked it because the gas tank sprung a leak and would cost nearly £1,000 to fix/replace according to AC Aberdeen.
 
I'd say a manual should outlast the car. Synchro rings might require changing but in normal use the box itself should not break.

However, it seems that lately many manual boxes are failing with minimal mileage, I think one reason for this is this new fad of trying to achieve every driving move in 5th gear.

Unless one can round a city corner in 4th at least some magazine is going to bitch about it. This kind of usege leads to insufficient oil flow and eventually to failure. Witness, say Ducatos or Volvos, both seem to munch their gearboxes quite regularly and at least in Ducato's case using 5th below 80 km/h seems to be the recipe for disaster.

Obviously cost cutting and low pulling diesels are a factor as well.

Cost cutting seems to have the same effect on European autoboxes as well, whilst a good old yankee box will go on forever with occasional oil change, a premium eurobox will most likely detonate well before the car hits any serious mileage. Sealed for life my aXXe.

-Tazio
 
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The mjet box is the worst. Just google m32 gearbox and you will soon see how many complaints there are from astra diesels and vxrs.

Mines lasted 41k.
 
Yes there is on doubt that the award for worst gearbox goes to the m32.

To be fair the above 1.2 and t-jet failures are the first I have read on here and a forum like this does attract negative stories. Not many people go online just to tell the world that their car is working perfectly.
 
My 57 reg t-jet is on 30,500 and its gearbox is still going strong even though the car has seen drag and track days where its been put through its paces.

So was mine until 6th just started whining one day.

There goes your warranty if Fiat see that post lol.
 
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