beautiful

[Dan DiBiase]

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From: Wendy Teal <wanderson16 at cogeco.ca>
To: quattro at audifans.com; w-t_audifans at yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2008 1:20:35 AM
Subject: beautiful 

Well, I have a beautiful but dead 1990 Audi Quattro V8 32 valve.....: ( I have only had it 3 months, put a lot of $$ into it to be able to safety and buy the car. I bought it off a local dr. Well the other day with the change in temp. my lovely throttle became stuck wide open while driving down the road....the car was/is great running like a top.....then this.....so I got it around the block, riding with both feet on the brake pedal. ....the next morning had it towed to a garage..My friend the mechanic got it all apart and found the throttle straightened it right out.....bamm, running just like it was supposed to be..Then he asks me to drive the car inside his garage to put it back together because it was so cold outside, no problem, I hop in....put the car in drive and NOTHING happens.....strange, try reverse.....works....no forward gears at all.....So to end my sad story.....have it towed to a tranny shop, they called me today to tell me that it is an
 'internal' transmission problem and to even rebuild a used one it would start at about 1600.00 just for the parts alone.....

I am so sad. I am a single mom who just recently got into real estate and was so in love with this car.....Everything works and is in mint shape, we had body work done, brakes, drums, alternator rebuilt, heated seats work, the phone even still works, the sunroof, it has the whole cold weather package in place, the leather is like brand new...I am heart broken. I just got it at the end of August....3 months ago....I don't have that money to put into it....

Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.....

Sad, sad...

Wendy
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Wendy, sorry to hear about your mishap. But I'm curious as to why 'your
friend the mechanic' couldn't look at the transmission? I guess
your only hope is to try and source a used transmission and put it in
the car. Perhaps if you posted where in Canada you live, some other
lister could point you towards a local wreckers yard that might have
what you need. Then have your mechanic friend put it in, not the
tranny shop.

 Dan D
'04 A4 1.8Tq MT-6
Central NJ USA