Grinding Gears in the New Allroad

[Rob Andrews]

Yeah some of the S4 guys have...check out audiworld.com under the S4 forum
and look for posts by "donp"
it was recent

> -----Original Message-----
> From: quattro-admin at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-admin at audifans.com]On
> Behalf Of Alexander van Gerbig
> Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 1:59 PM
> To: quattro at audifans.com
> Subject: Grinding Gears in the New Allroad
>
>
>     Well through the grapevine I have found out that my mum's
> new Allroad is
> experiencing grinding while downshifting into 3rd and 2nd.
> She obviously
> thought it was a problem with her driving because she didn't
> tell me until
> today, but I heard through several people that drove with her
> that she was
> worried about it.  She claims to have her foot all the way down on the
> clutch and isn't traveling at mad speeds while downshifting.
> She refuses to
> let me test drive in fears of a holiday related traffic
> accident, but then
> again she has been driving it this entire time, which worries
> me that she
> continues to drive on it without an informed person taking a
> test drive.
> The car has 600 miles on it and sure as hell shouldn't ever
> have a grinding
> gear.
>
>     Anyone heard of bad 6 speed boxes from the factory with
> bad synchros or
> something else evil?  I am going to look through the
> Audiwurld archives to
> see if anyone has had a problem like this.  I would really
> like to test
> drive it, but for some reason she feels I would more likely
> be the one to
> get hit, or maybe I'd be doing the hitting:)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Alexander van Gerbig -- '90 90q20v -- '88 80t (R.I.P)
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