jchristilles
Member
Hello, my first post and not a happy one at that. I bought my Audi A6 TDI new in 2014 with the idea I would be putting 300,000 to 400,000 miles on it, my commute is at least 60 miles each way to work and I now have 104,000 on it.
Now for the fix. I took the car to the dealer and had to talk with Audi on the phone to prove who I was and then a code was released for the fix. I got the car back and what a difference in performance and the way it shifts. First of all the car will idle higher when warmed up, it used to be around 600 rpm and now it is around 900 rpm. Shifting is much different, the transmission shifts around 1900 rpm and that is in auto mode, in dynamic mode it shifts around 2300 rpm. Driving in town or traffic under 60 mph the car runs high rpm's up to 1800 rpm and just hangs there until you get it over the shifting point then it drops down to 1200 rpm. But put any pressure on the gas and it will drop to a lower gear and rev high. In traffic while commuting one can feel the car shift after getting to 1800 rpm and I feel a slight jerk while shifting. The slapping or jerking feeling has settled down a little after a few days of driving.
The Torque has been reduced, I asked Audi TDI what the specs are and they could not tell me. I no longer can get the car to push me in the seat the way it did before the fix. The car will get out of its own way with the shift pattern being set higher, but watch out for that LAG that is now present. Yes there is a lag now that was never there and it is something else. Leaving a light and then start to accelerate, the car does not move it actually slows down a bit then kicks in and what a kick it gives. I have merged into traffic and went to accelerate but the car has different ideas. I can see someone getting hit with this problem.. Its seems to happen around 20 mph area and also in the 40 mph area. I have also had problems getting on the highway, step on the accelerator and it goes no where, then kicks it and it is a wait.
Now for the Kicker. I talked to Audi sales after the fix, I was looking at a Certified A7. Well after the manager looked at my car, which is in Excellent condition inside and out, he talked with the salesman for a bit and came back to be and said they can buy this car retail for $22,000 and at that point I stopped him and said NO, they were leaning towards giving me $18,000 for it. They told me they did not know how to price these TDI's. Let me tell you, this makes me angry. This car was once the car to get and it cost extra for the TDI version and now with this Scandal the value has dropped to a Volkswagen value.
I was thinking on having the cars performance upgraded but have been reading that Audi has put a lock in the system so software upgrades cannot be put in.
Audi should have bought back all of these cars and I am hoping more people will complain to Audi's TDI department as I have done, and maybe they will do something about this. But I am not happy with Audi, this was my first Audi and could be my last.
Now for the fix. I took the car to the dealer and had to talk with Audi on the phone to prove who I was and then a code was released for the fix. I got the car back and what a difference in performance and the way it shifts. First of all the car will idle higher when warmed up, it used to be around 600 rpm and now it is around 900 rpm. Shifting is much different, the transmission shifts around 1900 rpm and that is in auto mode, in dynamic mode it shifts around 2300 rpm. Driving in town or traffic under 60 mph the car runs high rpm's up to 1800 rpm and just hangs there until you get it over the shifting point then it drops down to 1200 rpm. But put any pressure on the gas and it will drop to a lower gear and rev high. In traffic while commuting one can feel the car shift after getting to 1800 rpm and I feel a slight jerk while shifting. The slapping or jerking feeling has settled down a little after a few days of driving.
The Torque has been reduced, I asked Audi TDI what the specs are and they could not tell me. I no longer can get the car to push me in the seat the way it did before the fix. The car will get out of its own way with the shift pattern being set higher, but watch out for that LAG that is now present. Yes there is a lag now that was never there and it is something else. Leaving a light and then start to accelerate, the car does not move it actually slows down a bit then kicks in and what a kick it gives. I have merged into traffic and went to accelerate but the car has different ideas. I can see someone getting hit with this problem.. Its seems to happen around 20 mph area and also in the 40 mph area. I have also had problems getting on the highway, step on the accelerator and it goes no where, then kicks it and it is a wait.
Now for the Kicker. I talked to Audi sales after the fix, I was looking at a Certified A7. Well after the manager looked at my car, which is in Excellent condition inside and out, he talked with the salesman for a bit and came back to be and said they can buy this car retail for $22,000 and at that point I stopped him and said NO, they were leaning towards giving me $18,000 for it. They told me they did not know how to price these TDI's. Let me tell you, this makes me angry. This car was once the car to get and it cost extra for the TDI version and now with this Scandal the value has dropped to a Volkswagen value.
I was thinking on having the cars performance upgraded but have been reading that Audi has put a lock in the system so software upgrades cannot be put in.
Audi should have bought back all of these cars and I am hoping more people will complain to Audi's TDI department as I have done, and maybe they will do something about this. But I am not happy with Audi, this was my first Audi and could be my last.