Allroad owners
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Having had a Kodiaq off the road for 8/9 weeks at the beginning of the year due to a failed mechatronics unit, I'm sorry to hear your news!
This is the Kodiaq that replaced my Allroad in June last year, luckily bought approved used, but a 19 reg with "just" 43,000 miles on the clock.
Can the existing unit not be fixed or definitely a new one required?
This is the Kodiaq that replaced my Allroad in June last year, luckily bought approved used, but a 19 reg with "just" 43,000 miles on the clock.
Can the existing unit not be fixed or definitely a new one required?
^^^^ That is why I only considered the BiTDi Allroad with the 8spd ZF! Although I really liked the 6spd DSG in my previous mk6 Golf GTI. But for a big heavy car with a torquey engine a normal torque convertor gearbox is a safer bet.
Hope you manage to get it fixed for less than £4k! As that is almost enough to write off the car.
Hope you manage to get it fixed for less than £4k! As that is almost enough to write off the car.
gmackay2 said:
^^^^ That is why I only considered the BiTDi Allroad with the 8spd ZF! Although I really liked the 6spd DSG in my previous mk6 Golf GTI. But for a big heavy car with a torquey engine a normal torque convertor gearbox is a safer bet.
Hope you manage to get it fixed for less than £4k! As that is almost enough to write off the car.
I assumed they were all the Aisin 8 speed. Are there different gearboxes in them?Hope you manage to get it fixed for less than £4k! As that is almost enough to write off the car.
gmackay2 said:
^^^^ That is why I only considered the BiTDi Allroad with the 8spd ZF! Although I really liked the 6spd DSG in my previous mk6 Golf GTI. But for a big heavy car with a torquey engine a normal torque convertor gearbox is a safer bet.
Hope you manage to get it fixed for less than £4k! As that is almost enough to write off the car.
I've got an a6 avant 3.0 bitdi which has air suspension so its 'nearly' an Allroad(which was my original choice). It has the ZF 8 speed and we're nearly up to 95k miles after 3 yrs of ownership since about 65k miles. Hope you manage to get it fixed for less than £4k! As that is almost enough to write off the car.
I do want to have a transmission oil and filter service done, but keep putting it off. I want to take it to a gearbox specialist for zf boxes in Cranleigh but can't get a good date. The zf gearboxes, although being less problematical than DSG are supposedly sealed for life - say audi, but ZF recommend a service at 75-80k miles so I'm now overdue. And the odd time I get some low speed judder makes me think its ready.
Otherwise I've had few worries with the car. Air suspension has been very reliable. I greased up the rear strut tops, 5 min job to remove the squeaking, main trouble has been with front brakes and drivers bearing that meant I had to have bearings, disks and pads replaced. We found eventually that it's the (ridiculously big bitdi) caliper guides that get stuck and bind on causing all sorts of heating/warping juddering issues so as long as these are lubed at my annual oil change not had a problem since.
Off to South of France again this year with family, bikes etc. Not expecting any issues.
SAS Tom said:
I assumed they were all the Aisin 8 speed. Are there different gearboxes in them?
The BiTDI has the ZF 8-sp, the others have the S-Tronic which is a Getrag 7-sp DSG with wet clutches.Both of my C7 Allroads had the S-Tronic and it was a fine gearbox, but I didn't take either over 60,000 miles so I have no high-miles experience. My current C8 has the ZF 8-sp which I think was pretty much used across the board in the V6 engined C8 model A6s and other Audis. Not sure why they offered so many different gearboxes in the C7.
Edited by Jobbo on Wednesday 26th June 17:45
prand said:
I've got an a6 avant 3.0 bitdi which has air suspension so its 'nearly' an Allroad(which was my original choice). It has the ZF 8 speed and we're nearly up to 95k miles after 3 yrs of ownership since about 65k miles.
I do want to have a transmission oil and filter service done, but keep putting it off. I want to take it to a gearbox specialist for zf boxes in Cranleigh but can't get a good date. The zf gearboxes, although being less problematical than DSG are supposedly sealed for life - say audi, but ZF recommend a service at 75-80k miles so I'm now overdue. And the odd time I get some low speed judder makes me think its ready.
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^^^ I would definitely get the ZF box serviced. When I bought mine it had 122k on it and full Audi service history to about 100k as it had the extended warranty on it to 90k. But as per above Audi do not service the ZF boxes as part of the normal service plan, which is madness. So, within 1 week of owning it, I had it booked into Mackies Transmission services in Glasgow (ZF specialist which I have used on most of my previous cars). Gearbox was serviced and they found no issues with it and it has been fine. Now approaching 160k mikes. I will probably get it done again around the 180k miles if I still have the car by then. I do want to have a transmission oil and filter service done, but keep putting it off. I want to take it to a gearbox specialist for zf boxes in Cranleigh but can't get a good date. The zf gearboxes, although being less problematical than DSG are supposedly sealed for life - say audi, but ZF recommend a service at 75-80k miles so I'm now overdue. And the odd time I get some low speed judder makes me think its ready.
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Although, the AC has failed again for the third time in my ownership, so it needs to go back to the Audi specialist to find out what is wrong with it this time
gmackay2 said:
^^^^ That is why I only considered the BiTDi Allroad with the 8spd ZF! Although I really liked the 6spd DSG in my previous mk6 Golf GTI. But for a big heavy car with a torquey engine a normal torque convertor gearbox is a safer bet.
Hope you manage to get it fixed for less than £4k! As that is almost enough to write off the car.
Sadly nopeHope you manage to get it fixed for less than £4k! As that is almost enough to write off the car.
All in job done in two days after dumping it on them- and £3.5k.
I’m away sailing this week and will pick it up on Monday
Obviously I did the maths at e beginning of the year not to put another years warranty on it (£700 + £500 excess IIRC)
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