PhilipA
5th August 2019, 12:35 PM
My wife’s current 2006.5 Jazz has been written off with hail damage.
We bought it with about 37kk on it 6 years ago.
At about 100kk the clutch started to play up by not fully disengaging.
I had a couple of mechanics look at it and then paid $1k to have it replaced.
A couple of months later it started to judder and worse the input bearing of the gearbox became noisy.
So I bit the bullet and redid the job myself and what a PITA, especially replacing the bearing which luckily had a YouTube video.
Anyway has been perfect since.
clues to problem were that it was owned by a chef who no doubt wore doc martins.
the clutch place must have hung the gearbox on the input shaft to cause it to fail.
I can see how it happened as it is very time consuming to do a clutch properly as you have even remove the crossmember.
My question is am I stupid to consider a manual used Jazz bearing in mind the lack of manual skills in the general population? If I was to consider one what would be the max ks to look at where someone could not do too much damage to the clutch? LOL
The auto Jazz is a CVT and the first model was flawed, replaced by a 5 speed now back to a CVT with the problems hopefully fixed.
regards PhilipA
We bought it with about 37kk on it 6 years ago.
At about 100kk the clutch started to play up by not fully disengaging.
I had a couple of mechanics look at it and then paid $1k to have it replaced.
A couple of months later it started to judder and worse the input bearing of the gearbox became noisy.
So I bit the bullet and redid the job myself and what a PITA, especially replacing the bearing which luckily had a YouTube video.
Anyway has been perfect since.
clues to problem were that it was owned by a chef who no doubt wore doc martins.
the clutch place must have hung the gearbox on the input shaft to cause it to fail.
I can see how it happened as it is very time consuming to do a clutch properly as you have even remove the crossmember.
My question is am I stupid to consider a manual used Jazz bearing in mind the lack of manual skills in the general population? If I was to consider one what would be the max ks to look at where someone could not do too much damage to the clutch? LOL
The auto Jazz is a CVT and the first model was flawed, replaced by a 5 speed now back to a CVT with the problems hopefully fixed.
regards PhilipA