Last summer, we were planning on going out of town for my birthday weekend. In preparation for the trip, while I was at work, my husband brought the Eos in for an oil change. He said that both he and the guy at Lubex said they smelled a funny burning plasticy smell. On the way home from the oil change, my husband had to slow down to make a turn off the highway onto a service road to get home. When he slowed down to make the turn, he couldn't get the car back into gear. Luckily my mother was staying over, so between the two of them, they manged to get the car the rest of the way home by pushing and towing it. I could not afford to have the car towed to the dealer at the time, nor did I have CAA/AAA, so the car was parked 10 months, unused. I tried to research and call the dealers to see if there was any recall on the clutch system, and was told there wasn't. I researched on the internet to see if there were others in my predicament, but it seemed that most of the problems were with the DSG transmission. I had trouble finding anything pertaining to a manual transmission, but it sounds like others that wanted to buy a manual had trouble finding one for sale when they were looking, so I assumed the reason there wasn't anything about my problem was simply due to lack of supply of the manual transmission Eos. My husband and I just got married a couple weeks ago, and really wanted the Eos for the wedding, so about two months ago, we did have the car towed to a dealer and checked over. They suggested it probably was the clutch and that they needed to replace it and a timing belt at a tune of over $5K. I phoned around and found a VW repair shop that would do the repairs for half that, so we towed the vehicle from the dealer to the repair shop. The repair shop worked on the vehicle, and once they had everything replaced and back together, they took it for a test drive. While on the drive, they could not get the car to shift into 4th gear. Again, this is not something that should be happening with a car that has less than 50,000 km's on it. I always make sure my car is completely stopped before changing from reverse to forward, or vice versa simply because I know that is bad for automatic transmissions, so I apply the same policy to my manual transmisions as well. Long story, short, they had to track down a new transmission from another written off car to replace mine with. The transmission was 1200 km's away and had to be shipped to the repair shop. Due to the delivery time for the transmission, we did not get her back in time for our wedding. Will I have to replace these items again in another 50,000 km's? I love the car, but I cannot afford that.