[V6-12v] Transmission - what to do?
T. Jackson
Mancubus99 at hotmail.com
Tue Jul 27 08:23:19 EDT 2004
Sorry to hear about your transmission problems. I feel your pain.
As someone who has had their share of transmission problems (rebuilt my
manual transmission in my '90q at 135,000km and replaced it at 215,000km) I
would say that replacing it rather than rebuilding it is the better choice.
In the end, the rebuild one cost me twice as much and took twice as long and
I STILL had problems that weren't detected in the rebuild that popped up
later prompting the replacement.
I would take the car to a knowledgeable mechanic and get it diagnosed while
checking all of the local junkyards for donor transmissions.
-----Original Message-----
From: v6-12v-bounces+mancubus99=hotmail.com at audifans.com
[mailto:v6-12v-bounces+mancubus99=hotmail.com at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Tom
Mullane
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 8:44 PM
To: v6-12v at audifans.com
Subject: [V6-12v] Transmission - what to do?
Hello.
I just subscribed to this list in the hope that you folks can give me some
options with a tranny problem I'm having with my 1996 A6 Avant. I've been
on the 200 20v list and the urS list, so I'm not a total newbie.
Anyway, here's the problem:
I bought my wagon in the winter after my 70+ year old mother took a spill on
the ice and fractured her left hip. She has a 2000 Jetta with a 5 speed, so
the automatic wagon seemed like a good bet for her until she got her clutch
leg back. She drove the car for about 6 months and but about 8k on it; she
loved the car. She just recently gave it back after I pointed out that I
hadn't seen her cane in over a month, and I wanted to do some maintenance on
the car. Well, I never got the chance.
After about a week in the car, I was driving on the highway when I lost
power. The first thought was that the timing belt had broken, but as I
coasted to a stop, the car was still running. As I slowed, the problem
became obvious: clunk, clunk, screech. The car stopped with the front
wheels locked like the car was in park, but you could shift into drive and
the car would try to go - but the front wheels remained locked. I had the
car towed home, and unbolted the front drive shafts. Now I could drive the
car into the garage.
Tonight I went to move the car, but it would move. I re-attached the drive
shafts and was able to drive it around. The transmission is making clicking
noises, but the car moves.
So what to do? Have someone install a new or used trans? Take this one out
and have it rebuilt? Anyone selling a trans in the Northeast? Anyone want
to buy the car (currently listed on Audifans)? Other thoughts?
TIA
Tom
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