hi all, going to pick your brains again. Some of you may remember I had to get a new gearbox in the polo a few months ago and i said that the ratios seemed a lot shorter which was great for acceleration though I wasnt all that happy but I decided to live with it anyway.
However after a 800 mile trip yesterday I can say that im definately not happy with the gearbox. I usually sit at 57mph on the motorway most of the time to get good fuel economy but with the new 'box 57mph equates to over 3000rpm. If I want to do 70 its 4000rpm so as you can imagine it eats fuel.
I phoned the guy up who installed the new gearbox and he assured me that it was a 1.4 polo gearbox he put in. But im not too sure, he had 4 other polos waiting for gearboxes and since the majority of them are 1.4 I think he had difficulty in getting one and hes stuck a gearbox for a 1.0 polo in instead.
Before I go back over on my high horse is there anyway of verifying the ratios or that this is the right 'box or not? Any serial numbers arent apparant on the casing, but I was wondering if someone would be able to tell the ratios maybe on a diagnostics test, is this possible?
Oh, yeah, think a bearings about to go too
