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Re: A4 Driveline Shudder

RSFoster@aol.com writes:
> >Does anyone know what magazine it was that said that the 1.8t
> >seems to have fixed the driveline shudder found in the 2.8
> >models?  References?
> >Dan Masi
> 
> "The first A4 1.8Ts in the United States come with five-speed automatics,
> followed in early 1997 by the five-speed manual, which we drove.  We found
> none of the driveline shudder that, upon clutch engagement, often accompanies
> the V6-powered A4 and A6."

I have a 96 A4Q V6, but I couldn't reproduce any driveline shudder problems,
despite several attempts at trying.  Full throttle acceleration all the
way from first through to fourth never yielded anything unusual...

-Ti
96 A4 2.8 quattro
84 5000S 2.1 Turbo
80 4000 2.0
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