[V8] Disgruntled about Audi on eBay

[Roger Woodbury]

Then it could have likely been repaired by a ZF shop, couldn't it?

Roger

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott DeWitt [mailto:sdewitt at stx.rr.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 9:33 AM
To: V8 at audifans.com; Roger Woodbury
Subject: Re: [V8] Disgruntled about Audi on eBay

The RS6 gearbox is a ZF 5hp24.


---- Roger Woodbury <rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com> wrote: 
> Well, it's a pretty cheap way to take an international swipe at a
> manufacturer, I guess.
> 
> But I wonder who actually made that transmission?  I suspect that it was
> Aisen or someone like that.  Doubtful that it was ZF, but it might have
> been.
> 
> My first outing with a V8 was with a tornado red 1990 that was owned by a
> retired army major general who lived in Pennsylvania.  The car came to me
> via the Mannheim Auto Auction and was very, VERY clean (as all those cars
> are!) and had pretty low miles....less than 50k as I recall.
> 
> The history of the car was pretty good for an auction car, and I knew
going
> in the front door that the nose had been hit in a sheet metal only
accident.
> Six thousand miles later, I learned the "rest" of the story: the
> transmission developed a distaste for reverse.  Entirely.
> 
> Turns out the at the car had been hit pretty good in the nose and
apparently
> towed from the scene by the nose.  The damage was internal to the
> transmission, and according to the ZF transmission shop that fixed it,
> "someone had been inside before"...their words.
> 
> About seven grand from door to door...the transmission guys sent a flat
bed
> up and hauled the car to the Bangor shop.  Then hauled it to the main shop
> in Portland where the work was done.  The worst of it was that the pinion
> gear was damaged, and that part alone was almost a grand.
> 
> Audi wanted $9000 plus exchange for a new transmission!  So rebuilding it
> was cheaper and easier.  The transmission is the same as that used in
seven
> series BMWs and big Jaguars, PLUS the front wheel drive stuff.  The shop
> that did the work was the ONLY authorized ZF dealer in northern New
England.
> 
> I sold that car several months later...lost my taste for it and Audi V8's
> entirely, or so I thought.  
> 
> So I am wondering who makes the $80,000 Audi transmission these days.  The
> last time I was in the VW dealer's I read the sticker on the window of a
new
> CC, and was shocked to see that the car has Japanese parts.  Just proves
> that although we beat the Axis, we just didn't kill it.
> 
> Roger
> 
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