Hello everyone;
This past saturday I installed in my car a PTU gearbox from an Audi A3 1.6 TDI from 2014 with 122.000 km (75.000 mi).
I only needed to make the support for the cable carrier and install the flanges from the original gearbox, and everything was perfect. Exact same gear ratios as the MYP.
I also replaced the oil in the gearbox with the OE oil that corresponds to this gearbox and year (G 052 527 A2) and installed a new clutch
from Sachs.
I installed the original starter that comes with the original gearbox 02Z 911 024 L (2 kW starter that start the engine easily, faster and with a better sound). The interference between the starter pinion and the flywheel is perfect in the direction perpendicual to the axle of the gearbox but in the direcition parallel to the gearbox I am missing around 4,5 - 5 mm and this is not ideal for long term operation. I will remove around 4 mm from the starter motor with a milling machine to improve the interference between the pinion of the starter motor and the flywheel.
The noise of the engine at motorway speeds is much much less. Also the gear knob travel is much less with the PTU gearbox (I prefer the old gearbox in this particual topic) but in such a way the gear change feeling is more precise.
I am very disapointed with the noise that comes from the gearbox. The diferential in my old GPK gearbox had a lot of play and the noise when the engine was between holding/pushing the car was horrendous. With this "new" gearbox with new OE oil the noise is much less but is present. I don't know if anyone has experience with these new gearboxes like MYP, PTU, PTW ... in reference to differential clearance and low engine load noises. But from my point of view, very dissapointed with Audi/VW with the sound aspect of the gearboxes after only 120.000 km and 6 years...
Kind regards,