A6 automatic transmission

[George Kotjarapgolus]

I recently purchased a high  mileage 1997 A6 (143K).  I am now going through
getting the misc items attended to such as brakes and rotars all around, and
some lower control arm bushings.  I decided to have the transmission fluid
and filter changed as a preventative measure.  I then began to wonder as to
the durability of the A6 transmission.  On my older Audis, I generally
experienced a problem at about 100K.  I bought a 92 100s automatic and was
told by the owner that  the early model year transmissions that year were a
problem and his was replaced by Audi.  A beefed up transmission was
installed on the later models.  I am curious at approximately what mileage
range should I expect a problem on the 1992 and later automatic
transmission.  If anyone has had a transmission problem, I would be
interested at what mileage.

George Kotjarapoglus
gkot at adelphia.net