RE: Really awful TT experience

["Rich, Jack" <JRich@Kronos.com>]

His was rebuilt once, and replaced once.

I missed a shift from 1st to 2nd once (foot was fast, but hand was slow) and
it made a loud grind, of course.  Then I began to imagine grinds with less
missed shifts.  However, when I listen hard for a grind while also making
damn certain that the clutch pedal is fully to the floor, it doesn't grind.
Anyway, it makes many of the TT owners paranoid that it is an obvious
weakness in his, regardless of what he does or doesn't do to cause it.

Jack


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	PlyBoyDoct@aol.com [SMTP:PlyBoyDoct@aol.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, December 09, 1999 5:58 PM
> To:	JRich@kronos.com; quattro@audifans.com
> Subject:	Re: Really awful TT experience
> 
> In a message dated 12/9/99 2:03:32 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> JRich@Kronos.com 
> writes:
> 
> > 3 bad transmissions says that he is either extremely unlucky, or there
> is
> >  some other problem with the car (like the clutch?) that causes his
> tranny 
> to
> >  fail.  Of course, what dealer will ever successfully diagnose some 
> secondary
> >  cause?  It does appear that the weak link in a TT may be the 2nd gear
> >  synchro.
> 
> I never heard this happen 3 times on any tranny.  Even in a Automactic.
> The page didn't say if he had a manual or an auto, so I'm going to assume
> the 
> Manual.  Unless he never used the clutch to engage his tranny it shouldn't
> be 
> doing that.
> 
>  I am assuming they are just rebuilding the same tranny over and over
> again, 
> and doing it wrong.  After all, how many times has anyone rebuilt a TT
> tranny 
> anyways?
> A new 89 200 auto tranny is about 1500 bones, I can't even imagine how
> much a 
> new tranny for a TT could cost.  So it could be badly rebuilt.
> 
> JasonC
> 89 200t10v
> RedmondWA