On november 14th my a4 1.8 stalled, was towed to the dealer, a coil was replaced...when I drove the car home it would thump and jerk up around 60 MPH. I returned it to the dealer who stated that it could again be another coil but were not permitted to replace all the coils the day before because manufacturer wouldn't pay for anything more than the faulty coil...even though they figured more might fail...well, it turns out it was the "throttle" - they reset it and I picked up the car and started driving home when it thumped and jerked again...turned around and returned it to the dealer...this all happened on the 15th...it is now the 18th and after working with their engineers, they fear they may now need to replace the entire transmission...I am just glad that I have a loaner car and that I have 5k more miles on my warranty...I think I am going to by the extended since this is 3 huge problems in 5 weeks time!
2003 Audi A4 transmission complaints
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The vehicle is an audi a4 3.0 (non-quattro). I have experienced on multiple occassions the following...... When the car is started and the car is placed in reverse, the vehicle begins to buck violently. If I was parallel parked, I would have hit the car in front of me and in back of me or possibly a person. I know for sure there are other people that have experienced this same dangerous problem as I have seen it on audi message boards. This problem has been happening for quite some time now. No one seems to know what to do since the situation is hard to repeat at will.
My 2003 audi a4 3.0 with CVT transmission, purchased new 2/2004, has 8000 miles on it. During the past 2 weeks (the past 500 miles) I have noted the following problem 4 different times: upon pressing the accelerator while at a complete stop, the transmission seems not to "engage" and the vehicle does not move. Unfortunately, during 3 of those occasions, my vehicle was on a downward incline and I was attempting to make a right turn into a street with traffic. I therefore coasted into traffic but was unable to accelerate; I was very lucky not to have been hit by the traffic coming from my left. After waiting a few long seconds, the transmission would eventually seem to "engage", and I would be on my way.
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