Budget and trustworthy gearbox specialists

[Frosill]

Wondering if anyone knows in Glasgow or around any good gearbox specialists who could rebuild my BMW e60 6hp19 gearbox. With a tight budget but obviously someone decent. Any suggestions, please?

[8bit]

Frosill said:

Wondering if anyone knows in Glasgow or around any good gearbox specialists who could rebuild my BMW e60 6hp19 gearbox. With a tight budget but obviously someone decent. Any suggestions, please?

Mackie Transmissions, they're ZF specialists. Nobody in Scotland will be better placed to sort yours out than they are.

[Frosill]

Thanks for your answer mate. I have been there and unfortunately, they said it would cost over 2.5k which these days I can't really afford. I was wondering if someone could do cheaper than that by any chance? Or even look for a used gearbox and just fit in? Would that be a cheaper and better option?

[8bit]

Without knowing what one of those 'boxes goes for it's hard to say but it may well be a cheaper option. Do you know what's actually wrong with yours?

[Frosill]

It showed a problem with E clutch which means it appears for 4 5 gear, driving on those gears very occasionally gearbox goes to safe mode and shuts down to neutral until I turn off and on the engine after it again drives fine like nothing.

[8bit]

Has it been confirmed that this means a rebuild is required? The fact that the problem goes away on the next start cycle would suggest to me that it's a software/calibration issue in the TCM, either that or a problem with the mechatronics. Neither of those should be anywhere near £2.5k to resolve, I wouldn't think.

[Frosill]

If so do know who could do calibration for gearbox in Glasgow ? If its mechatronics any idea how much that would cost ?

[StescoG66]

Frosill said:

Wondering if anyone knows in Glasgow or around any good gearbox specialists who could rebuild my BMW e60 6hp19 gearbox. With a tight budget but obviously someone decent. Any suggestions, please?

Speak to Craig at Gilmour Engineering on Glasgow Road Cambuslang. He is used to working on some really exotic stuff, so I am sure he can help you. He’s a gent to deal with, and as honest and straightforward to deal with as it’s possible to be. Helped me out a few times.

[8bit]

Frosill said:

If so do know who could do calibration for gearbox in Glasgow ? If its mechatronics any idea how much that would cost ?

So again, the only place I know of in Glasgow are Mackie Transmissions but they come highly recommended, if it just needed the TCU reflashed and/or mechatronics work then I doubt they'd be £2.5k for that. What exactly did you ask them to quote for?

[Frosill]

Yes, I have been to exactly the garage you suggesting. That's what they said, requires to rebuild:// However since then I am driving my car basically every day, and literally there is no issue with the gearbox. City/motorway roads and nothing, pushing it and still, nothing drives perfectly fine and I am very confused. Can it actually be just an error showing which needs to be cleared? Idrive doesn't show anything as well.

[8bit]

Well if it's an occasional, intermittent issue and at all other times the car drives perfectly normally then that would seem to me much like a software or calibration issue rather than something inherently mechanical but I'm not a mechanic so I would defer to an expert. Just had a quick look on the ZF website for other service partners in Glasgow, you have a few others to choose from. Go here and enter Glasgow and see if you get on any better with any of the other agents listed in the results:

https://aftermarket.zf.com/go/en/aftermarket-porta...