just seen a scooby i fancy but the bloke says it crunchs in 4th when you giving it some ? so i take it the gearbox needs to come out and have the syncros etc done and then refit the gearbox ?

is this a normal job or is it a pig of a job and going to work out expensive ?

 

heard its a pig and it aint cheap.

 

thats what i thought . im still thonking about yours mate . everytime i look at the pics i think i should be driving down to get it

i will pm you in a bit mate

 

ok then. my box is all been recond and its had prodrive play about with it you can tell its fairly new as its short and tight gear changes, unlike my old cossie when there about 5yards away from each change

 

Ive done a couple clutches on Scoobies, a old 'classic' shape and the other month I did a 2004 6spd STi...did that one on my driveway on my back, took well under a full day including numerous breaks. Not difficult to do tbh, the fastenings are wank quality so rust in and the steel dowles that locat the box and block can seize together making it a pig to seperate....also dont forget to with-draw the clutch arm pivot shaft or you have bob hope of getting the box out

 

id expect to be charged around £200

 

thats bloody cheap

 

Yeah, half my family are from Norwich....I know how tight you lot are

 

The 04 plater I charged 350 plus he supplied his own clutch kit...and he was well chuffed with that....so much so that he now wants me to replace his front discs and pads asap. Dunno what a rebuild generaly costs on a scooby box tho??

 

One of my mates had a problem with his sti ppp crunching going in to some gears when driving hard,took to main dealer and they adjusted gear linkage £450,now it doesnt crunch

cheeRS stu

 

my brother payed £300 to have a clutch done thats with them suplyin the clutch so i would exspect around £200 / 250 mark

 

^^ the clutch kit alone cost that for the one I did

 

ive seen an impreza box change at the side of the road in an hour tops, not done it myself but its supposed to be pretty easy for a competent person

 

its just like a normal box change, it amazes me at all the tech whos wanna rip people off

the front shafts are IN the box so thats piss easy

take it to a beetle specialist if you dont wanna be ripped off as they seem to understand them

OR get the journey up to JC motorsport and book it in for him to work on the car, JC is a honest bloke who as stripped a few scoobies and knows what hes looking at and dont fuck about !!

350 to change a clutch on a scoobie is a fucking rip off and maindealers charges, should be done in under 4 hours like a normal box as its no different to most cars

woods il PM your my number and ill check the local area out to you and see who can do scoobie work as i deal with a few garages round the area

 

i can do an impreza box in 3.5 hrs and the last one i had rebuilt cost me £250 and it was the same problem as yours

 

PTS stung my mate £3k to remove box rebuild to standard and refit with new clutch

 

Oh and to add it whined on collection and when he took it back was told to give it time to bed in. The car was returned to them within a few eeks on a low loader wherupon they stung him a further £1200

 

to be fair oranoco the price of parts on scoobies have come down alot, the price of blueprint clutchs are around 80 quid for a scoobie not where BEFORE they was 350 quid from the same place

when cars are new the parts are based on maindealers, when cars get old they have to price parts BASED on the value of the car,,,,, as there comes to a point where nobody would bother to replace it

just like some " tuners " ripp people off with working on cossies,,,, though cossie parts have ALWAYS been overpriced for what they are !