Grinding Gears in the New Allroad

[Kneale Brownson]

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At 02:58 PM 12/24/2001 -0500, Alexander van Gerbig wrote:

>     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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