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Since I am still searching for my second gear, I took the damn thing a part twice this weekend.

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Old 01-24-2005, 01:33 PM
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Default That was me... I've been running "some other" Audi synthetic now for over a year and 15k miles

and I have no shifting issues at all. I say some other fluid because I was never able to find out from Audi what the application was. This was a mix up with Wendy sending me the wrong stuff. I had the conversation with ZF the day after I put it in...
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Default That's how they can charge you $18 for a bottle of crap.

My tranny guy saw the clutches in my old tranny and he said they are the same as any domestic car's.
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Default Re: Who's running that? You?

Yes, JimR. The car has done 6k after the oil change and its all good... My brother called the Penn Tech Service and as a coincidence the tech was a previous Audi owner(atleast that's what he said) and he stated that he used the oil too...

I called Mobil 1 and all the engineer said was "It's not compatible" and I asked him to be more specific about, why its not and he just hung up on me..
I called again and this time guy told me to search online using "GOOGLE"...
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Default Cool, thanks.

I really need to take a hard look at the technical specs for those fluids. I found a good page with that info for the Esso/ZF/Audi stuff.
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Default Re: Cool, thanks.

My friend who is in a transmission rebuild business for 15 years said manufactures use different color fluids, so if you change it it will void the warranty. He was reading the ZF book and he was laughing on every page.
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