Fwd: Scirocco troubles

[Michael Leach <scirocco16v_1@yahoo.com>]

this was sent to me and I am no pro at these questions so I send it to you guys!!!!!!!!
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Arturo Gonzalez <gnz12345@harborcom.net>
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> 
> Hello... I was wondering if you could help me out
> with a problem.  I have a
> 1986, 16 valve GT variant of the Volkswagen
> Scirocco.  It has about 160,000
> miles on it and something has gone wrong with the
> transmission.  The first
> sign that might signal something was going wrong was
> that when a quick
> shift from 1st to 2nd gear was performed, there was
> a kind of grinding
> noise.  I aksed my dad about it, because i am only
> 16, and he said nothing
> was really wrong just dont shift fast.  So i let
> that slide but then one
> day i took the car out and drove aroud for about 20
> minutes.  Then some guy
> wanted to race me so i did a quick shift from 1st to
> 2nd to 3rd all at
> redline... and it made the usual noises from 1st to
> 2nd gear.  But now...
> when i was going around a corner and shifted from
> 3rd to 2nd at about 15
> MPH it mnade this horrible noise and the car was
> basically now motionless. 
> All it does  when i try to engage the gears, it
> makes a like chattering
> noise like something is grabbing but not really.  I
> was wondering if you
> could help me identify the problem and maybe give me
> an estimate of what
> the cost could be.   Thank you very much for your
> help.
>  
> 		Michael Gonzalez
> 
> 
<BR><BR>Michael Leach--Rochester,NY<br>87 16v Red semi-show<br>87 16v Black winter<br>91 Ford Explorer XLT
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