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[Kyle D. Ledford]

Thanks for the honest input..

I as well prefer the manual trans but they are harder and harder to find.. As well having owned several older audis I would now only by a Quattro so.. I am looking at a q now so I will see..

Kyle Ledford
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On Jan 29, 2013, at 9:13 AM, Tony Hoffman <auditony at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I've seen the conventional transmissions die under 80k, btw.
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> 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 ;-)
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> Tony
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> 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?
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>> Kyle Ledford
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