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Audi auto boxes

  • 08-08-2014 2:33pm
    #1
    Titzon Toast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,530 ✭✭✭


    Can anyone tell me if they are as bad as people say please?
    I've found a clean A4 tdi with one but I've heard they're less than useless!

    Here's a pick of the shifter.

    Thank you.


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  • #2
    Titzon Toast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,530 ✭✭✭Titzon Toast


    Cheers for that. The truth hurts sometimes I suppose. They're best avoided then would you say?


  • #3
    Chimaera
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,652 ✭✭✭Chimaera


    Unless it's a conventional auto or the newer DSG, avoid it. Multitronic is a CVT and it just isn't strong enough for the job.


  • #4
    Titzon Toast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,530 ✭✭✭Titzon Toast


    Right so. Thanks for the heads up.
    Manual it is.


  • #5
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,794 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    Titzon Toast wrote: »
    Right so. Thanks for the heads up.
    Manual it is.

    You haven't told is which it is: Multitronic or S-Tronic or Tiptronic ?

    The former is awful, the latter two are great.

    And if the seller can't tell you, get the VIN and go to an Audi dealer and check it out yourself

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  • #6
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Multitronic is a money-pit of a box - they go like stink when working and then cack their internals, whereby you join the legions of other multitronic owners looking for the fabled "good used box", fail, and join the legions of butt-hurt multitronic owners who paid to have them rebuilt, or the ones that still have difficulty walking as they got theirs off an Audi main dealer.


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  • #7
    Titzon Toast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,530 ✭✭✭Titzon Toast


    Sorry, I should have said it was an 03 model. I'm pretty sure it's got the bogey one that everyone is talking about.
    Damn shame, the car it's in has only done 40k genuine miles since new!


  • #8
    Moneymaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,846 ✭✭✭Moneymaker


    Huh, i've been wondering why even the larger Audi's seem to come in manuals.

    Guess I know why now. :pac:


  • #9
    Titzon Toast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,530 ✭✭✭Titzon Toast


    Right, time to resurrect this thread, can some kind soul please tell me if the auto box in an 03 Audi A6 1.8T petrol is the dreaded Multitronic gearbox please?
    The owner doesn't know and just says it's a six speed auto if that helps?
    Thanks in advance for any help.


  • #10
    George Dalton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,728 ✭✭✭George Dalton


    Yes it would be multitronic.

    They are a horrible gearbox even when working 100% IMO.


  • #11
    Titzon Toast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,530 ✭✭✭Titzon Toast


    Dang, that's what I thought alright. I'll steer clear of it so. Thanks for your help.


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  • #12
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    Better known as Multichronic


  • #13
    fmcg_scribe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 564 ✭✭✭fmcg_scribe


    OSI wrote: »
    The older Multitronic auto box is known to have a good few issues and isn't the nicest of boxes. The S-Tronic is a big improvement but didn't come on that model.

    For A8 (2003-2011), I have it on good authority from a gearbox specialist that Multitronic transmission is poor and unreliable and costly to fix - also said that Quattro is the one to go for.

    I suppose that that recommendation could also apply to A4 and A6 and perhaps other Audi models. Can't comment on DSG transmission.


  • #14
    mcko
    Registered Users Posts: 755 ✭✭✭mcko


    Run away from a multi tronic I had an A6 18t multi and the box went cost was more than the car sold it for scrap , broke my heart beautiful car, don't buy one.


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