there never has been an audi with a VR6 engine.
the current passat uses the audi V6. all current
audis use the 5 speed tiptronic for automatic.
in the early 90s, the audi 100 used the same 4
speed automatic as VW golfs and jettas and the
failure rate was high for the v6 powered model.
the 4 speed in today's car is different from
the one used in that era though it is an
evolution rather than a completely new design.
i think that the current 4 speed is rated around
what a 12 valve VR6 will handle. personally
i would be wary of mating that with a chipped
TDI because of the enormous torque output. at
the very least i would do frequent fluid
changes.
btw, the dealers are screwed both ways. VW
says lifetime so that they rate inexpensively
when constupid reports do their surveys. if
they let things go for "lifetime" then they
get blamed when trannies fail.. if they recommend
tranny service at 60K then people accuse them
of trying to rip them off. just a view from
the other side, and no i'm not affiliated
with a dealer in any way.
Originally posted by Black hawk:
Someone told me that the TDI auto's are the same ones they use on the VR6 Audi ?? if so why is the ones on th VW failing.
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