Trey A4

At great expense, I have a brand spanking new craptastic CVT transmission installed in my car (70K miles). (Yes, this car has been a disaster. And, yes, I should have bought a manual quattro!)

Does anyone have experience with the reliablity of replacement multitronics that Audi is now using? Anyone get 10K, 20K, 30k out of one of them?

I can afford to trade my car in and get something new, but would like to squeeze 30K miles out of the car, especially as I had to pay to fix this problem. Worth the risk? I will scrap the car / sell it broken if the transmission breaks again and it's not under the Audi warranty --- repair would be cost-prohibitive. Any advice appreciated.

Audi Junkie

Someone should master the refit to normal trans.

MikTip

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Audi Junkie

Noice. I'd love to do this on the wife's CRV.

Trey A4

But Audi picked up part of the cost of the new tranny, so it made sense to do that. Also, thought manual retrofit would be super expensive and likely to result in complications, and would make the car impossible to trade in. I guess that might be an option if the transmission craps out again. But still, this has to be a $3k job, I would think.

QuattroFan02

No $hit!, I had no idea you were an original auto.

QuattroFan02

You'll lose even more in depreciation the longer you keep it.

Trey A4

No extended warranty. So, yeah, the next transmission fix (barring some multitronic lawsuit or recall), will be something that I'd likely have to pay for.

As for depreciation, the car will continue to depreciate, but it has a trade in value of $10K or so now, so it has almost fully depreciated already. But, say the transmission fails in 2 years. The car with a good transmission would be worth, say, $8000. That makes fixing the trans. pretty close to cost prohibitive. I probably wouldn't pay an indy $3k-$4k to fix the trans. for a car worth that little. Not worth the hassle.