My car is back!

I own a pretty old car. It's not an old timer, but it sometimes acts as one. My 15 year old VW Polo broke almost 2 months ago. It started on our trip to the Polish mountains, 300km from home. Something started to make noise, especially at 5th gear, so I stopped using it. It wasn't as hard as it sounds because the roads in mountains are really narrow and they're usually  curvy (you could also use winding, meandering). We survived also on our way back home going at 80km per hour in 4th gear.

I went to mechanic the next day, and he wanted to hear the noise so he turned on 5th gear for about 5-10 seconds. It was enough and my gearbox was now completely broken, but I felt relieved I hadn't done that a day earlier, far from home.

It's not cost effective to repair a broken gearbox so my mechanic started to search for a replacement from other VW Polos. Unfortunately, VW mounted many different models of gearboxes in the Polo so it wasn't too easy to find it. In meantime we spent two weeks on vacations in Sri Lanka and then Christmas came. In the end I started searching for gearbox at the beginning of this year and I found it!

I also had to replace the clutch and dual mass flyweel. I spent over a half of the Polos value but it's working again!

I'm glad you're car is working again!