Marquis

I just purchased a Audi A4 Quattro COnvertible. I notice that the transmission seems to "bang" when shifting around 80km/hour. When I decelerate around 30km, it bangs again.

Any suggestions what to do before I show up at the dealership?

Thanks.

adamstasiak

Forget this post

Corrado_Guy

What is actually banging? Can you tell if it is internal to the transmission or is the car shifting very hard causing the engine/transmission assembly to rock really hard? I think the first step is to check and make sure that there is enough transmission fluid in there and smell it to see if smells like it is burnt. As mentioned above if you just bought this car then it is pretty likely the problem didn't just start so I would waste no time in contacting the dealer/person you bought it from and let them know this thing has issues. I believe there is an anti-lemon law which gives you a short period of time to find big defects and get your money back or car repaired but I don't know if it applies to dealers or individuals so you will have to look at this.

Worse case the transmission is gone and you will need to get it rebuilt or find a used one to replace it. If it is just shifting really hard you may be able to change the transmission fluid out to the factory stuff and see if this helps. There can also be internal problems such as solenoid packs which are pretty easy to swap out the auto trans has a computer so you can have this scanned and see if it is showing any codes which may give you a better idea of the problem. I don't really acknowledge automatic transmissions really exist so I have never looked into the problems these things have but just because there is a noise it doesn't have to mean it is the transmission.

If you are sure the noise is coming from the transmission then I would contact the seller first and explain the problem then check the fluid level and check for codes.

mksu19

Was the purchase through an Audi dealership, an independent used car lot or a private individual? A lot of the statement(s) our colleagues had advised depends on the question I posted?

There is no reason for anyone to mislead or even encourage a member to resort to such extreme measures without fully understanding the predicament. I understand your position but the thought of someone giving bad advice to another forum member is (IMO) just unethical! Your "biased" opinions are unwarranted and should be refrained from being expressed until all the facts have been laid out!

Does the Lemon Law apply to a privately sold vehicle? I believe that anything sold through private sale has/is presumed on an "as-is" basis.

adamstasiak

I see it as the previous owner bought the car in California for $5,000.00 or so, because of the faulty transmission.

I wouldn't advise anything like this if I did not have the previous experience, with my wife and a 3 year old child on the express way with reverse gear left. It is the dealer or the previous owner that is unethical not I. If he waits longer than he looses the legal option as the dealer will say that the problem was reported too late.
It is possible that they just need to add fluid and this will fix it for now, but let us face it - this tranny is shot.

mksu19

Where and how did you get this information?

Again, your "biased" opinion is unwarranted due to the fact that:

(a) your experience is nowhere near similar to his current problem(s),
(b) have different cars and,
(c) we cannot possibly know for sure what other factors are there that might/could be causing this "banging" noise.

For all we know, it could be his differentials (?) that could be causing the "banging" noise!

The dealer will only be liable IF the vehicle was purchased through them. Why would the dealer or Audi for that matter be liable for an Automobile that is several years old, and could possibly have been damaged by it's previous owner(s)? I certainly hope that it's as minor as "just need to add fluid" for the current owner's sake. No way for us to know whether or not HIS tranny is "shot" as you so eloquently put it!

EDIT: Audi/Dealer will also be liable if the symptoms and the cause of the problem were a recall item.

midrange

I fully concur with mksu19. Before we jump to any conclusions, we need more information from the OP.

Adam, you truely cannot mislead a new audiforum.ca member when you have absolutely no idea what your talking about. I have yet to find any proof in this members one single thread that he bought it from a dealer. And even if he did buy it from a dealership, we have NO idea if it was an AS IS sale.

To clear this up now, there is NO lemon law in Canada. In 2002, Canada tried to implement a Lemon law but was unsuccessful. Never has it been tried again

Unfortuneatly, until we receive anymore information from the OP, this thread can really go no further.

adamstasiak

Shot differentials? Not bad..how where and when? What I said is what I see here as he does not give info.

mksu19

Presumption and Assumption can, at times, be very dangerous!

adamstasiak

He does not answer. I think he realizes what has happened