First time I've signed up to one of these forum's but I'm at my wits end. I can't find even remotely anything along the lines of what i have and i have spent days looking.
I have suspected DSG gearbox fault and have been told your looking at about £3500 "and even then your car won't ever run the same again" by an Audi specialist garage.
Problem dates back to the start of last year, i bought myself a nice 2006 Audi a3 2.0 TDI DSG on a short finance contract. To make this as short as possible, the garage who sold me it screwed me over, the bloke who sold me the car was stealing the warranty money so when my cars front differential went wrong (can get more info on this later from the garage if it helps) i was waiting about 3 months (while still driving) to get it fixed. Car drove fine was just when i went up steep hills or for example motorway miles the car would judder left to right violently normally fixed by slowing down and speeding back up or just easing of the accelerator for a moment. It got so bad it was un drivable and i finally called it a day after 2-3 months. Again to keep it short even though the garage i got the car from well and truly messed me about and caused this, it spent 4 weeks in an auto centre with no avail. Then i took it too an Audi specialist and they immediately diagnosed it, got it fixed, happy days.
Drove fine for a bout 3 days then wouldn't start properly, easiest way to explain it was like the battery didn't have enough charge on a cold morning. About 10 seconds of the car choking itself it would start no problem. But drive down the road and you'd quickly realise there was no power (or very little) until you hit about 3000-3500 rpm, it was like severe turbo lag but when you hit the higher revs the power would bang in and shoot off (yet again driving a ridiculously unsafe car again) it would stay in the same gear but it felt like you'd hit the power button under the pedal and jumped down two gears. I drove it straight to the garage again and he spent about 15 mins tinkering, turning it on -off on - off, no codes shown on the diagnostics. He sat there and goes the only thing i can think it is is your dsg is gone, your looking at £3500 etc etc you know the rest. I didn't have another car so i drove it for a few more days when it eventually just cut out doing about 60mph, it put itself into neutral until i came to a stop and the dash went 6-5-4-3-2-1-N and that was it, had to get it towed she hasn't started since just constantly chokes when you turn the key.
So im 22 left with a derelict car i still owe a lot on, i paid for a nice car to not have this problem and got it anyway. Ive been thinking about selling it back to the finance company and cutting my losses there, but i never got a second opinion so i thought id try here. I got in touch with a company in bristol but again, by the time you tow it, get a few wires plugged in that alone is gona set me back nearly £300 before any works done.
My last move is here trying to get some advice from anyone who has had even remotely similar issues! Maybe this happened to you, possible costs? Any advice really would be appreciated. I can try and get another garage to give there advice but besides that its looking as if selling it for absolutely nothing and wasting £7K which is lovely (Y). The battery and tires are currently flat but I'm getting that sorted tonight, i can video how it behaves and get that to anyone if it helps or any other information Ill provide as much as possible.
Thanks for your time
I have suspected DSG gearbox fault and have been told your looking at about £3500 "and even then your car won't ever run the same again" by an Audi specialist garage.
Problem dates back to the start of last year, i bought myself a nice 2006 Audi a3 2.0 TDI DSG on a short finance contract. To make this as short as possible, the garage who sold me it screwed me over, the bloke who sold me the car was stealing the warranty money so when my cars front differential went wrong (can get more info on this later from the garage if it helps) i was waiting about 3 months (while still driving) to get it fixed. Car drove fine was just when i went up steep hills or for example motorway miles the car would judder left to right violently normally fixed by slowing down and speeding back up or just easing of the accelerator for a moment. It got so bad it was un drivable and i finally called it a day after 2-3 months. Again to keep it short even though the garage i got the car from well and truly messed me about and caused this, it spent 4 weeks in an auto centre with no avail. Then i took it too an Audi specialist and they immediately diagnosed it, got it fixed, happy days.
Drove fine for a bout 3 days then wouldn't start properly, easiest way to explain it was like the battery didn't have enough charge on a cold morning. About 10 seconds of the car choking itself it would start no problem. But drive down the road and you'd quickly realise there was no power (or very little) until you hit about 3000-3500 rpm, it was like severe turbo lag but when you hit the higher revs the power would bang in and shoot off (yet again driving a ridiculously unsafe car again) it would stay in the same gear but it felt like you'd hit the power button under the pedal and jumped down two gears. I drove it straight to the garage again and he spent about 15 mins tinkering, turning it on -off on - off, no codes shown on the diagnostics. He sat there and goes the only thing i can think it is is your dsg is gone, your looking at £3500 etc etc you know the rest. I didn't have another car so i drove it for a few more days when it eventually just cut out doing about 60mph, it put itself into neutral until i came to a stop and the dash went 6-5-4-3-2-1-N and that was it, had to get it towed she hasn't started since just constantly chokes when you turn the key.
So im 22 left with a derelict car i still owe a lot on, i paid for a nice car to not have this problem and got it anyway. Ive been thinking about selling it back to the finance company and cutting my losses there, but i never got a second opinion so i thought id try here. I got in touch with a company in bristol but again, by the time you tow it, get a few wires plugged in that alone is gona set me back nearly £300 before any works done.
My last move is here trying to get some advice from anyone who has had even remotely similar issues! Maybe this happened to you, possible costs? Any advice really would be appreciated. I can try and get another garage to give there advice but besides that its looking as if selling it for absolutely nothing and wasting £7K which is lovely (Y). The battery and tires are currently flat but I'm getting that sorted tonight, i can video how it behaves and get that to anyone if it helps or any other information Ill provide as much as possible.
Thanks for your time
