My Audi Woes

[SN95Audi87]

Hey guys,

I just wanted to let you guys know that my B5 is starting to put a slight drain on my life . As some of you know I recently got the cluster fixed after 6 years of ownership guessing what symbols might be driving. I was really excited that I am starting to make some progress on this car. Next, I picked up car from the speed shop because they replaced my Turbo and put all brand new oil/coolant lines. The car drove very rough for the first few miles and ironed itself out because the residual oil coated the o2 sensors so everything was burning off, cool. Now for the bad! I asked the shop to top off the fluid to my tiptronic because it was low. I had a slight buck in first gear when I was driving it everyday before it went to the stop for repairs. They topped off my fluid and told me my tail shaft seal and input shaft seal are both leaking which I knew prior but only the tail shaft portion. I asked them how bad, they said it wasn't bad enough to replace immediately.

I drive the car down to work in the city and all hell broke lose. The car started to slip in gear and piss out fluid everywhere. I had to pull over a few times with my hazards because there was traffic behind me and I had to wave them to pass me by. I eventually made it to work but had to limp the car to my company parking lot. The car LCD screen gear selector lit up all "PRN432". Everytime I would slow down it would feel like the car is in neutral. I would hit the gas and it would do nothing, then after a few seconds kick into gear. My worse fear is that the transmission burnt up its clutches in the lower gears because of low fluid. Lesson learned dont neglect your transmission seals even they were in "ok" shape.

What I think happened is that the shop filled the transmission fluid to full which put more stress on the leaky seals which eventually let go. I gave 517 transmissions a call and he quoted me 2400-3100 depending on how severe the internals were damaged. Great! All the problems around in the 175k range. Thanks for hearing me out.


Nate

[tar]

Why not manual swap over buying another tiptragic. Parts cars are cheap enough and it greatly improves the car

[SN95Audi87]

Why not manual swap over buying another tiptragic. Parts cars are cheap enough and it greatly improves the car

I would be all for it if it wasn't my daily driver. I just need to get up and go ya know.

[tar]

Well its not going atm. And would be faster to swap in a 5speed than pull auto, wait for rebuild reinstall. Plus alot cheaper. Shit you could buy another a4 for the cost of that rebuild.

[Turbo_B5]

I would be all for it if it wasn't my daily driver. I just need to get up and go ya know.

fuck tiptronic. manual swap. or buy mnanual a4 for the rebuild money.

[SN95Audi87]

Well its not going atm. And would be faster to swap in a 5speed than pull auto, wait for rebuild reinstall. Plus alot cheaper. Shit you could buy another a4 for the cost of that rebuild.

Hmmm decisions...

fuck tiptronic. manual swap. or buy mnanual a4 for the rebuild money.

With all the hardwork in maintenance that I put it in, very hard to let go. This is my last old car, i am going to buy something new when my finances are in order.

[vwblackb5]

Here's the DIY for 5spd swap. All conversion parts including New Clutchmasters FX400 + Steel LWFW ~ $1950-2000

http://www.audizine.com/forum/showth...ual-Conversion

You can also source out a good Indy Mech that could do this if you're not DIY inclined, assuming labor 500-700$ + parts (1500-1900) total $2600 on high end. Either you dump the car and use the 2600$ for some econobox to get you from A to B, or you take take a loan on yourself ($2600) and get this done. If you're engine is still good, and trans is only issue, no reason this can't last you another 3+ years until you get something else.

$2600/36 = 72$/month .. where can you find a car that you enjoy with a payment as low as that.

[SN95Audi87]

Here's the DIY for 5spd swap. All conversion parts including New Clutchmasters FX400 + Steel LWFW ~ $1950-2000

http://www.audizine.com/forum/showth...ual-Conversion

You can also source out a good Indy Mech that could do this if you're not DIY inclined, assuming labor 500-700$ + parts (1500-1900) total $2600 on high end. Either you dump the car and use the 2600$ for some econobox to get you from A to B, or you take take a loan on yourself ($2600) and get this done. If you're engine is still good, and trans is only issue, no reason this can't last you another 3+ years until you get something else.

$2600/36 = 72$/month .. where can you find a car that you enjoy with a payment as low as that.

The engine is in tip top shape with recent timing belt/water pump service. The trans front input seal went...I like your laid out plan.