Opinions

Tony Hoffman auditony at gmail.com
Tue Jan 29 06:13:17 PST 2013


All front wheel drive autos' were CVT. That's, all A4's from 02-08, A6's
from 02-09. All the Quattro's have a conventional transmission.

The CVT's aren't significantly more problematic than the other auto's, IME.
I work on a lot of Audi's, and I'd say CVT issues are more exagerated than
realistic, just as CIS issues were when it was new and nobody knew anything
about the system.

The one design flaw, IMO, is putting the TCU inside the trans. It will
eventually fill with fluid, and need replacement. However, I have several
customers on the original over 150k.

I've seen the conventional transmissions die under 80k, btw.

Why do I drive a true manual trans Audi, oh, that's why. An auto of any
type/manufacturer will fail. It's not a question of if, but when. May go
hunderds of thousands, may not, but they wear as they function. That's
built into the design, no way around it. I'm not a gambler, don't like
roulette with my pocketbook ;-)

Tony

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Kyle D. Ledford
<kledford at columbus.rr.com>wrote:

> I guess maybe not after finding a vin of a known cvt and decoding over on
> audiworld it states it's a cvt auto and the one I was looking at is just a
> tiprtronic auto so do I assume it is no a cvt?
>
> Kyle Ledford
> Sent from my iPhone
>


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