[s-cars] tranny noise

[Paul Friedenberg]

Bahahah! thats what I'm screamin'!


>From: "Dave Burig" <dburig at igsenergy.com>
>To: "Paul Krasusky" <KrasuskyP at FirstInterBank.com>,"'s-car-list'"
><s-car-list at audifans.com>
>Subject: RE: [s-cars] tranny noise
>Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 10:30:54 -0400
>
>Pauly,
>This isn't in the Bently, but what you're hearing is actually the sound of
>a
>very small telephone built into the inside of your transmission. It's
>ringing.  It's your 6-speed calling.
>Answer it!
>
>Dave "experiencing The Joy Of Six" Burig
>Columbus, Ohio
>
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>Ah, thanks Mr. Pastore for referring me to Charlie Smith's excellent site.
>I KNEW I'd read about this crap somewhere out there, couldn't remember
>where.  ANYway...
>
>From Charlie's site, below is his description of what he experienced:
>
><<<<The noise began as a very faint tic, tic, tic noise - but just when
>beginning to move in 1st gear when the car was cold and when it was 20F or
>25F degrees outside. Sort of like the noise you made as a kid by putting a
>playing card into the spokes of a bicycle, but not that loud. Since it was
>cold, of course the windows were rolled up. I dismissed the noise, as
>perhaps being due to something that oil had not yet reached, because once I
>would shift into 2nd for a few feet, and then back into 1st - the noise
>would be gone. I would only hear it on the first motion ... when I would be
>traveling at 2 or 3 MPH in a parking lot with very light throttle. Anyway,
>by the time I had driven another 2000 miles, the noise was quite apparent,
>particularly if I would drive away with the windows rolled down. On
>disassembly, the damage to 1st gear was quite apparent. The rubbing surface
>of one tooth on the mainshaft was very badly galled away. >>>>>>>
>
>Now, I'm not getting a tick-tick, card in the spoke sound.  Mine occurs not
>just when going the 1st 2-3 mph, but at any speed in 1st, IF I'm applying
>the throttle.  And it's more grainy in sound than a tick.  Am I getting
>experiencing the same fault?  Based on Charlie's (terrific) comprehensive
>research (mine being 12/94 build), my guess is yes, I'm screwed, and mine
>just makes a different noise.
>
>Bob speculates I can just live with this for some time w/o worrying of
>roadside meltdown.  Charlie, does it get louder to the point of unbearable,
>or is this it?  I can simply live with it?  I do (still, of course) do hard
>1st gear starts, but like you refer to in your write up, ONLY after the
>clutch is engaged.  Am I only accelerating the wear (pun intended)?
>
>Ugh.  F'n Audi.
>
>-Paul with Today's Complaints
>CT
>
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