Where is my reverse????

[Dimitri]

Now I understand how Sergio felt a couples of weeks ago, yerterday when I came from a 500 kms trip (I´ve already put 2500 kms on my S4) I found out great surprise: Where is my reverse?????

I´m not able to go through it and it was very "nice" to handle 1800 kgs by myself in the garage to take it out to the audi oficial service this morning, It doesn´t seem it´s a clutch problem since the rest of the gears work completly well.

As you might guess, I´m pissed off and anxiously waiting for am answer and willing it´s just a stupid thing.

Apart of this trouble, that I hope It´ll be solved soon, I can say I´m completly satisfied with the car and it´s the only thing that has made disappear that great smile on my face :D :D everytime I drive.

I also had the oportunitie this weekend to drive around in twisty roads with hard rain and I can say (I´ve had other quattro´s before) that I had never felt that feeling of security, incredible grip and control even in that conditions.

[Erik]

Originally posted by Dimitri
I found out great surprise: Where is my reverse?

I'm sorry but this makes me laugh. It happened to my friend is his Volvo V40 as well and he was parked in a much worse place.
I'm sure Audi will find a solution to the problem - soon!

[Dimitri]

Yeah! real fun, I can be proud to have the first "two feet drive" S4 ever...

It´s like driving a pedal kid car, all the power it´s on your legs.

Thanks Erik, I´m in the opinion that there´s always to get the funny thing even in the worst moments.

By the way, here are some pictures, not that great quality, but I´ll have soon better ones (only if we can take out the car of the audi service, entrance is so narrow that I might be needing a... reverse!!! Yeeees!!!!)

[CoOlSlY]

Adding your car to the list that tracks some of the problems might be a good idea.

http://www.dejong947.com/AudiTracking/audi_tracker.asp

Sylvain

[Klint]

Hi,

The best and first thing a owner can do if something electrical comes up, presuming you have DSG/Auto? Is to disconnect the battery. This might be a simple and straight forward cure for any kind of electrical problem, if it's related to the electronic system.

:cheers:

[smerayo]

Dimitri, Keep calm. I am sorry you had bad luck with the clutch :rolleyes: . My clutch was successfully fixed and now i am enjoying my car with no further problems (crossed fingers), so don t worry about it. I suggest you call "audi class" in Madrid and speak with Mr. Carlos Troyano, he was the man who folowed up my case and hired me a car thru Europcar. Audi knows the S4 is having trasmission problems but they will try to convince they are not. So talk to him about my case and i am quite sure he ll do his best to solve your f****g problem. Please keep me posted...
Regards

[Erik]

Looks like the M3 is having problems as well...

http://bimmer.roadfly.org/bmw/forums/e46m3/forum.php?postid=4140906&page=1

Now, who can make a fault-free sports car?
Porsche? :confused:

[smerayo]

The M3 has had problems since it was on the market by 2001. :rolleyes: We ll have to save money to buy Porsches or Ferraris. Let s start saving some money :rolleyes: :rolleyes: to quality made cars :rolleyes:

[Dimitri]

It seems know that the problem cames from the gearbox as they say in my Audi service.
Thay have to change the whole thing as they told me and It´ll take a few days.
Sergio, I think you had similar problem and they changed you the clutch didn´t they? I´m little confused.
I can´t understand how this failiure could happen in a car like this but as I saw in the "problem list " (which I have already joined) it´s been something common in a couple of cars.
Well, I hope this is just something I´ll forget in the future but by now I´m really worried and not very confident with Audi.:rolleyes:

[Dimitri]

I´ve just took a walk to my audi service and at the end the problem is not that bad as it first seemed.

There´s only a little pieze which is failing, I think it´s the reverse selector or something like that, so there won´t have to change the hole gearbox, but anyway it was pretty funny the job to get to that piece, everithing has had to be taking out.

At least I´ve been able to see the gearbox of my beast in front of my eyes, amazing, I´d never thought it would be that big... and also the exhaust, and everything about transmission and suspension that I saw down the car.

So, hopefully, three more days and we two will continue our love story, that, as all the good ones, had an interruption....

I´ll post pictures soon, not know, I want you to see it with all its piezes on it....

Sergio, thanks for the information, but since my car was directly imported from audi germany I don´t have "Audi class" services. Anyway I didn´t have any problem with the oficial sercive, I was a client before (A3, A6, New Beettle) and it was real fast (they even wanted to change the whole gearbox but audi told them the problem could be much more simple).

[Dimitri]

Ah!! Klint, mine is a manual one.

[smerayo]

Dimitri, let me know how yeah doing, man? What did they tell you?? is it already fixed??? how long will it take?

Good luck!