GEARBOX PROBLEM!!! WTF NOW...

Post by **RS6Steve** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 9:49 am

You are not having much luck!

These things make a grown man/woman cry daily....

I HATE mine but struggle to get my head around selling it

Post by **marv8** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 9:59 am

My TC went and yes it is a big job - there are people in the us that can change the gearbox without taking the engine out but they seem to be a little way ahead of us.
I had the box out, inspected by the warranty company, sent TC to Sussex autos who confirmed the issue. Warranty company inspected again and approved a claim. Sussex autos suggested a full box rebuild as there could be swarf in the box.
Had the box stripped to individual components and replaced everything that was not perfect ( box was under 10k miles old). Zf actually supplied some uprated parts according to the guy that's doing the work as they know what the failure rate is!
It's a kick in the balls - I know it was for me and I had a warranty ( only covered £3k though) but took the opportunity to replacetiming belt (6k old but makes sense if engine out) water pump, stat, rocker cover gaskets, crank oil seal and just had new alternator. Hoping prevention is the cure for any of the usual faults!
Good luck mate, fingers crossed it's just low fluids

Post by **jd_hants** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 11:37 am

Mine did a similar thing and turned out to be low ATF as an oil pipe to the cooler was weeping. Luckily a flush and new ATF and seems ok. Hope it's as simple as that for you. Def worth a shot.

Post by **RS6MAN** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 9:12 pm

Hey boys, i took to my local audi specialist today and they did a full vagcom and no faults were present... My mate drove the car to the garage which is 20mins away and he didnt have any problem, the mechanic took it for a test drive and was fine, gearbox was also inspected and fine... Im getting a service done on it replacing the fluid, filters, gaskets etc...
What could have it been??!
Its weird...

Post by **Cornishmoocher** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 8:08 am

Hmmmm..... would i trust Audi.... No.
They would tell you no faults present if it meant replacing a gearbox under warranty......
When they did mine, I noticed a weep from the sump. By this time i had told audi they were a bunch of useless cnuts and taken it to unit 20. Grizz found, and i saw this with my own eyes every single nut on the sump fingertight, except one..... which was not there at all..... Oh and my milltek had been put on with no clamps or bolts either......
Grizz please confirm.........

Post by **Doug_S2** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 9:24 am

Your doing the right thing - get the oil inspeccted and serviced. If it keeps doing the thud it should throw a code for something - solenoid, tq, gear selector - so until it does be careful.

Post by **RS6MAN** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 7:34 pm

Doug_S2 wrote:Your doing the right thing - get the oil inspeccted and serviced. If it keeps doing the thud it should throw a code for something - solenoid, tq, gear selector - so until it does be careful.

just got my car back from the audi specalist and its all fine; they changed the filter in the box, gasket, seals and oil...

its goes into gear more smoother and i dont have no thud anymore; they did say the oil was low...

Post by **marv8** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 8:23 pm

Well mate one word for that............. Result!

Post by **RS6MAN** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 9:17 pm

yh i no; just hope all stays as good as is now...

Post by **Digger** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 10:00 pm

Do you mind telling who the Audi guys were that you used? Might be of use to some others depending where they are in the country in case its a long way to travel to the usual suspects.

Post by **RS6MAN** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 12:52 am

oh yh sure; guy called bobby at 4rings in colnbrook slough...
25 years audi mechanic now has his own garage with all equipment; 1 thing i was amazed to see today was the machine used to repressurize the drc... i thought only audi had that...

Post by **RichRS6** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 12:38 pm

RS60786 wrote:oh yh sure; guy called bobby at 4rings in colnbrook slough...
25 years audi mechanic now has his own garage with all equipment; 1 thing i was amazed to see today was the machine used to repressurize the drc... i thought only audi had that...

That's interesting, I thought the DRC tool was dealer only too...........

Useful for those still on DRC to have an option if they need work doing on it.

Post by **RS6MAN** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 1:31 pm

RichRS6 wrote:
RS60786 wrote:oh yh sure; guy called bobby at 4rings in colnbrook slough...
25 years audi mechanic now has his own garage with all equipment; 1 thing i was amazed to see today was the machine used to repressurize the drc... i thought only audi had that...
That's interesting, I thought the DRC tool was dealer only too...........

Useful for those still on DRC to have an option if they need work doing on it.

yeh and he did quote around £1000 for full drc change; not bad compared to £1800 from audi...

Post by **Digger** » Sun Feb 06, 2011 4:19 pm

RS60786 wrote:
RichRS6 wrote:
RS60786 wrote:oh yh sure; guy called bobby at 4rings in colnbrook slough...
25 years audi mechanic now has his own garage with all equipment; 1 thing i was amazed to see today was the machine used to repressurize the drc... i thought only audi had that...
That's interesting, I thought the DRC tool was dealer only too...........

Useful for those still on DRC to have an option if they need work doing on it.
yeh and he did quote around £1000 for full drc change; not bad compared to £1800 from audi...

Yep very interesting and timely. I'm off to see Rob at Camberley on Wednesday to have my DRC checked out. Work may well need to be done so its nice to have another option if needs be. Thanks for the info.

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