2014 Audi S3 Issue

Mike89267

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Hi All

I currently have a 2014 S3 saloon (manual transmission). The car has 41k miles I bought it from a main dealer 18 months ago with 18k miles. While driving in 5th or 6th gear at between two and three thousand rpm if i accelerate hard the revs seem to spike by 200-300 rpm then settle back down. This only appears to happen when the car is warmed up.

My first thought is that the clutch is starting to slip however it has been doing this intermittently for the past few months.

Has anyone else had this issue with their S3? Been driving 15 years and never had issues with clutches on previous cars (mixture of performance cars and normal cars)

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance
 
I would imagine your clutch it’s starting to slip my friend.
 
Had the same thing on my 64plate MK7 GTI, had only done about 18k, with 230ps. There’s plenty of people that have had the same issue. Think the clutches are a bit crap. So made sure I went for the s-tronic (not that they’re bulletproof!) when I got the S3
 
Does sound like clutch slip, but what you describe is not typically the first sign of the failure, which tends to be slip between gear changes.
When doing very fast / aggressive gear change under full throttle, especially from 2nd to 3rd, I found that the revs started taking a short time to drop down from 6.5k to 4k rpm even with the clutch pedal fully released. This got steadily worse over a period of about 2 months to the point that the revs simply didnt drop at all.
Even in that state of wear it would not slip under conditions you are talking about i.e. in 6th at about 70mph and floor it, but it made using full hard acceleration through the gears impossible. Once it starts slipping the clutch plate gets much hotter than it should which only accelerates its demise.
Keep driving it for now and see what happens and if it does get worse then look at changing it.
 
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