quattro Digest, Vol 15, Issue 73

[Mike Veglia]

In a message dated 1/19/2005 Tyson Varosyan writes:

<< I was looking up a '95 A6q on carpoint.com. Under
reliability it says:

"An occasional problem on this vehicle is failure of
the Automatic Transmission. The cost to repair the
Automatic Transmission is estimated at $80.00 for
parts and $520.00 for labor."

What are they talking about? What costs $80 and takes
$520 labor to replace? >>

Probably the switch (I forget the name of it) that
tells the Transmission Controller (TCU?) what the
transmission is up to (like what gear it is in). Our
'95 A6q Avant had both the switch and tailshaft seal
done at the same time at ~90k miles by the PO and it
was over $1k at a dealership in Texas. HTH



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