Gearbox Center Cowboy

martingkenny

Ok I feel obliged to warn people about <snip>, little scam they have going on.
Paid €700 to get a re-conditioned gearbox put into my car only for it to last 9 months. Rang the centre and after abit of stamering they told me Id have to replace gearbox cables and selectors costing €300-€400 also.
I asked, surely this was all covered in the initial €700 I paid you but I was told NO!!!!
I then decided to bring the car to two different independent garages for a second and third opinion and BOTH garages told me that there was absolutely 110% no problem with the cables/selectors and that it was a gearbox fault itself.
On further investigation I found that I was not the only one who had a little horror story to tell about this Center, several mechanics in the garages I visited for advise told me similar stories.
The centre buy scrapyard gearboxes, clean them down and spray them and sell them on as new/ reconditioned gearboxes on the hope that you'll get six months warranty out of them.

biko

Name removed to protect boards from legal action from this place.
Anyone can PM OP to get the name if you wish.

corks finest

martingkenny wrote: »

Ok I feel obliged to warn people about <snip>, little scam they have going on.
Paid €700 to get a re-conditioned gearbox put into my car only for it to last 9 months. Rang the centre and after abit of stamering they told me Id have to replace gearbox cables and selectors costing €300-€400 also.
I asked, surely this was all covered in the initial €700 I paid you but I was told NO!!!!
I then decided to bring the car to two different independent garages for a second and third opinion and BOTH garages told me that there was absolutely 110% no problem with the cables/selectors and that it was a gearbox fault itself.
On further investigation I found that I was not the only one who had a little horror story to tell about this Center, several mechanics in the garages I visited for advise told me similar stories.
The centre buy scrapyard gearboxes, clean them down and spray them and sell them on as new/ reconditioned gearboxes on the hope that you'll get six months warranty out of them.

Watchdog BBC programme highlighted this problem in the UK,obviously going on here also,endemic problem in the gearbox/transmission repair industry, I mean think about it logically, they're buying scrapped cars,and really can't/don't check the tranny box,just hoping after a quick wash,that they will last out the warranty time.

Wanderer78

What county op?

corks finest

Wanderer78 wrote: »

What county op?

England,BBC one watchdog programme, consumer rights TV programme

Wanderer78

corks finest wrote:

England,BBC one watchdog programme, consumer rights TV programme

Ah yea I know that program but where is the op based? Dreadful scam

corks finest

corks finest wrote: »

England,BBC one watchdog programme, consumer rights TV programme

AFAIK trainors/traynors breakers in Tyrone, are a reputable,stand over their goods breakers,got stuff delivered agis ago from them,no probs

corks finest

Wanderer78 wrote: »

Ah yea I know that program but where is the op based? Dreadful scam

Sorry, thought you were directing question at me

corks finest

corks finest wrote: »

Sorry, thought you were directing question at me

Not too difficult to narrow down,surely not more than 3.4 in the country

corks finest

corks finest wrote: »

Not too difficult to narrow down,surely not more than 3.4 in the country

And a p.m. will sort it