Re: 5000 AutoTranny Question

["Fred Munro" <munrof@isys.ca>]

Sam;

    Did you check the CV joints? If one has failed, I imagine you would get
these symptoms on a FWD.

HTH

Fred Munro
'91 200q  269k km
-----Original Message-----
From: SBate82659@aol.com <SBate82659@aol.com>
To: quattro@coimbra.ans.net <quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
Date: Wednesday, February 24, 1999 12:04 AM
Subject: 5000 AutoTranny Question


>Hello All,
>
>I am a new listee and Audi owner with an auto tranny question.
>I have owned and worked on VW's for over 20 years but this is my first
Audi.
>I just bought an '85 5000S Avant with a bum auto tranny.
>I searched the archives and found quite a bit of info concerning the diff
oil
>leakage problem into the auto trans but nothing that quite addressed my
>particular situation.
>The previous owner said it went out while rounding a corner to the right -
he
>was braking for the corner and when he reapplied power there was no drive
to
>the wheels in any of the forward gears or reverse.
>No noise was associated with this failure and no problems or symptoms had
been
>noticed prior to it.
>This is not in keeping with my understanding of the usual failure mode of
>these transmissions (but, then again, my knowledge of these things is
pretty
>much nill - hence this post).
>I'm trying to evaluate my options before outright transmission replacement.
>Does this set of symptoms ring any bells with anyone?
>Should I just not bother changing the filter and fluid on this one and
assume
>it's toast?
>
>Any and all advice appreciated.
>
>Sam Bateman
>Fork Union, VA
>'85 Audi 5000S Avant
>'87 VW Vanagon GL