[SamSTI]

Right the story starts, about three weeks ago i was driving back from Crawley and i thought id give the car a bit of blast, when changing into 5th at about 5000 rpm a nice clunk came from the gearbox!! as my underwear started to fill with a warm substance I drove straight to SMD where brent diagnosed it to be the fifth syncro had failed.

As my warranty still had 1 month left and the car has only done 20k i thought it would be a straight forward case and even Brent said i should have the car back within 5 days! little did we know....

When Brent first phoned the warranty company they thought that we was pulling a fast one as the car has only done 20k, so they wanted to send an engineer to the gearbox specialist, where the gearbox was at and still is at....

The engineer finally turned up last Friday, took one look at the gearbox and said that's wear and tear and they wouldn't cover the nearly 2k cost.

How can a gearbox syncro failing at 20k be wear and tear and not mechanical failure??

The same day i phone Performance car company (where i brought the car from) and before i could lay into them, they said they had been following the claim and were outraged about what the warranty company said and one way or another they would sort it out!!

So hopefully tomorrow i should find out if PCC has sorted it and i should have my car back by the end of the week.

Sorry for rambling on guys its just been so frustrating..