car now droped off with repair shop,

interestingly Chester are so busy that they can't fit me in for 3 weeks, I need it long before then so did some more research. To be fair I also rang my local dealer.

response from them " to drop the gearbox in one of them you need to take the engine out, you're looking at 1500 minimum."

WTF do they do that. Lots of places quote ~ 400 quid to R&R a gearbox on one of these. why lie so blatantly?

so car now in Rochdale being dealt with.