Gearbox overheating!! Please adapt styling drive

[Haider]

Hello everyone, I am a proud new owner a 2013 Audi A7 Exclusive S line, I got this message on the dashboard twice for few seconds, and disappeared, car taken back to delear, and surprise !! I need a new gearbox!! Is this possible ? I would aprreciate an input from you guys... Thanks

[M1tchy]

Wow that's not good. Did you buy from an Audi dealer? If so let them replace it under warranty!


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[Haider]

Hey M1tchy, thanks for reply, car is not under warranty, but to my surprice they offered me to replace the the whole thing and ask me to pay 1100 USD which I agreed to without a blink of an eye knowning that they qouted me a new gearbox for a total of 22,200 USD !!!

[M1tchy]

22,200 USD for a gearbox? Wow! If they are doing it for 1100 which is about 7-800 British pounds then I agree that's a good price. I'm not sure the gearbox has failed though, especially given the errors you had. My money would be on a faulty sensor somewhere. Have you had a diagnostics check?


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[Haider]

According to the tech, the error showed up on their diagnostic tool, and was identified as an internal
failure not pointing to specific sensor or part within the gearbox, car drives normally though but they decided
to replace the whole unit as they would not discharge the car as being (safe to drive)
without replacing the gearbox, I am wondering are they just being nice to me?! Or is it a common error that they know it does exist
and thats why they offered me to replace it and charge me only fitting labor costs !!

[Haider]

The question now is how I will be feeling later, knowing that a car like this could do crazy things like that and could hurt my pocket in such a massive way !

[damtom85]

can you tell us what engine and gearbox is it? as a7 has two of them, stronic(audi) and tiptronic(zf)

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[Haider]

It is the S tronic

[damtom85]

stronic has bad reputation. high rate of failures also low mileages when fault occured. connecting this gearbox with high torque engines is mistake. but what can you do. audi won't let user to choose gearbox when potential(new) buyer does configuration.

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[Alan02]

I would have been asking for a clearer reason they wanted to swop out the box. They have oil cooling control for the gearbox so there is a few devices that can cause an overheat code.