ELSAWIN '98 A8

[John Cody Forbes]

This brand of trans problem isn't the car's fault. The previous owner hit a 
cinder block in the street. The trans pan crushed inward in such a way that 
it broke the trans filter so it wasn't picking up fluid. It seems that he 
didn't shut it down promptly like he said he did because after replacing the 
pan and filter (while still owned by him) the car still has no go. I was 
able to purchase the car for less than the cost of replacing the pan and 
filter....

If you put it in drive (or any non-park/neutral position for that matter) 
theres the *slightest* hint that it wants to move, then the trans goes to 
limp mode. It produces code 17114 'Incorrect gear ratio'. My father as well 
as another co-worker are factory VAG trained in older autoboxes and have 
been arround the block a few times. I figure that it's worth a shot to tear 
into the thing - it's already broke, I can't possibly do worse. I have a 
source for internal parts, so I'm not worried about that. I also have a 
source for a replacement trans and it seems like there's no way this one can 
be shipped somewhere and repaired for what it'll cost me to just get another 
one. I'll take tons of pictures (as always).


-Cody Forbes



Joshua van Tol wrote:
> A friend of mine has the exact car. He had transmission problems that
> after multiple times of dropping the pan and replacing solenoids,
> turned out to be a shorted trans harness where it ran up the
> firewall. Caused a fault for a shorted solenoid and put the trans in
> limp mode, and the fault would always clear itself by the time a
> meter could be put on it.
>
>
> On Feb 23, 2009, at 5:04 PM, John Cody Forbes wrote:
>
>> Anybody here have ELSAWIN installed? I uninstalled it after finding
>> that it had zero usefull info on my fleet of 5000's. I just picked
>> up a broken '98 A8 4.2q (big jump eh?) and am wondering if somebody
>> can check to see if there is any info there before I go through the
>> PITA 4 hour process of re-installing. Trans info is what I'm
>> specifically after, removing and installing and any info about
>> trans internals would be a bonus.
>>
>> -Cody
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