Hi there,

I have a little (large?) problem with my precious...

I have a 2001 Yaris T-Sport (Echo RS) with 77.000 km on the clock. I had the transmission oil changed to synthetic (dealer recommended: Castrol TAF-X 75-90W) for the first time about 2 weeks ago. About a week ago my car developed a rather worrying loud grinding/clatter noise from the transmission area.
I first noticed it when pulling away in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th gear from low revs. The sound is drowned out by the exhaust in 1st and by the wind in 5th. When I take my foot off the gas the noise seems to go away. The grinding accelerates with the cars speed. Shifting action is unaffected.

I drove the car in this state for another 600 km due to being abroad on holiday when it appeared.

Yesterday I took the car to my friendly mechanic and he took it for a drive... He wasn't too happy. We got her up on a lift, started her up and proceeded to go through the gears as if I were driving it normally on the street… It reproduced the sound. We then turned the engine off and just spun the two front wheels individually by hand, again successfully reproducing the grinding at both wheels.

I’m dropping the car off on Monday so they can take apart the tranny and look inside. I’m hoping for the best…

Anyone experience or hear about such a problem?

Any and all ideas and suggestions are welcome...

Thanks in advance.

TS Flea

 

just curious...where are you from?

 

I've added my location details for ya... ;-)