Sure, many of these Passat ZF transmissions fail early. Lots of threads on it here.Typical for a failed TC to do damage to the trans? Especially if its jerking?
Thanks for the response, bought a 05 Passat with bad torque converter after about 30k on a rebuilt converter and trans, but it sounds like once it started acting odd he parked it, 2 months ago. I think Im going to Sell the Trans and buy a manual conversion kit. I do have the paperwork for trans rebuild looks like they used OE components. .... Reasonable to think the trans is still good, he drove it about 30-40 miles after light came on. then once he felt it acting up one day parked it for good.....I don't want to give anybody a bum trans...Only the 1 code for torque, I guess I should probably have somebody w/ vag com hook up and see about trans?Sure, many of these Passat ZF transmissions fail early. Lots of threads on it here.
The issue is that a lot of the time, some dumbass transmission shop decides to rebuild the whole unit (along with a rebuilt converter) when all the thing needed was a new converter. And once that hack job gets done, the transmission is a rolling time bomb. We see this here all too often. And of course wrong fluid, and/or never changing the fluid (ZF says every 100k km).
While I despise self shifting transmissions, both of my ZF slushboxes have been well maintained and are in good order. 190k and 220k, still kicking. While no slushbox is a "forever" transmission, I'd say these are as good as any if people would just take proper care of them and IF the need for a converter arises, a new converter gets installed properly.