16th Jan 2015, 20:30
I'm the original poster of this comment.
The car has now 95k km, and for no reason the transmission started to have a knocking sound. Opened it and the final drive gear has a few teeth missing. I never ever in my life owned a car that had transmission problems. To take it down and put it back is $400, bench time $350, final drive gear $200, and list goes on.
23rd Dec 2014, 16:24
I have now 100k with this car and tranny, and everything else still OK, no problems.
I only do an oil and filter change every 12k with synthetic.