4kq shifter & grease

[Jorgen Karlsson]

Tom Nas wrote:

> And I noticed that the new S4 shifts really bad, straight out of the box,
> compared to FWD A4s. Might be the 6-speed transmission, though.
> Anyone else
> notice this on their new S4? It was mentioned in at least two
> magazine tests.

It is hard not to notice it, combining a gear box with totally wrong ratios
with a bad linkage really destroy the feeling on that car. If the ratio of
the second gear had been like the third gear is now and the first gear had
been somewhere between the present first and second the car would be a lot
nicer to drive. But where would we put the sixth gear then? That's easy,
save it for the offroad version...

Jorgen Karlsson
Gothenburg, Sweden