Any advise, My Scooby 99 on a V plate WRX STi version 6 blah blah, has developed a crunching when changing gears between 3rd and 4th, only does it on hard(ish) acceleration, not driving like a woman(like the wife does). Local Subaru garage tells me its the synchro mesh between 3rd and 4th, and its gonna cost between £500 and a grand. Anyone else had these crunches on a scooby, is it a common fault, the cars only done 42000 miles.Garage tells me its safe to carry on driving, but sooner rather than later to get it fixed would be good.

Any ideas

 

Quite a common problem, scoobs have the highest warranty claims for gearboxes according to used car buyer

 

i've got exactly the same problem on mine, does it after long motorway journeys. the garage couldnt find a fault when i took it in so i've thought nothing more of it......until now. mines done 49k miles. maybe il have to get them to take another look

 

get rid of the old boat m8 you want some think more suited to your drriving, like a micra s that should do the job lol

 

Stuffed synchro, get replaced/repaired, no other way out im afraid.

 

or go for the six speed box

 

or maybe splash out on a peugeot 206 shopping car, lol,

 

i hope that your not up all night on that bloody computor again mr e, you need that sleep now cos you have a busy day tomorrow

 

hope not busy, need to finish early, finally got my hands on the scooby for work, .....finish work, home, wash polish scooby for castle combe ........Sorted

 

On my MY99 had it go twice replaced both times and warrenty, been fine on the two since.

 

I had exactly the same on a brand new MY04 wrx, the car had only covered 1k miles, they changed the syncro and 4th gear under waranty.

 

Common problem, especially when the oil is hot.
What oil are you using?
An oil change MAY help the situation.
Either live with it, which is not hard to do or get the synchros changed.
A specialist gearbox builder will charge a lot less than the dealer, around here, John Pye would charge £150 plus VAT for box out, opened and back in plus bits. These could be anything from from £200- £400 although they may have some second hand bits in stock.
Where are you located?

 

buy a six speeder. i can assure synchro hubs in the six speeders can suffer the same fate. i should know my 4th gear synchro hub had to be replaced and it was not cheap.
am i the only person to have fcuked a synchro hub from a jdm 6 speed?

 

I live in Chippenahm, not far from Castle combe, which will be handy for SAturday(bacon butties all round is it tomorrow)...................imagines 400 scooby's parked outside my house tomorrow lol

 

oi monkey thats 401 make mine with onions please.