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Old 4th April 2014, 12:21 PM
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What is this sucky squirty machine?

I will but I'm curious what they do differently to bob down the road.
Apart from the sucky squirty machine.
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This was kindly posted only a few days ago..........

http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/showthrea...=sucky+squirty
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Old 4th April 2014, 12:52 PM
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It does a little bit more than just pumping oil in and out then.

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I completely agree with Psyche and Sarg, if your gearbox needs serviced, this is really worth investing a relatively small sum in having it done properly.

Or putting it another way, the gearbox (along with the engine, maybe..) is probably the single most expensive, complex, and problematic part of the car, and your '8 will only be only worth scrap value if it is f**ked up by messing with it.

A "new" box from Audi is c£6k, so it's a worthwhile investment of a few hundred pounds to get a specialist to keep it running right.
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Wow that's a lot of praise.
I like a good write up of a good garage.
Just s shame I'm in the ass end of the UK with nog much down here for cars (IMHO).
I'm going to add my praise as well, I followed M-A8's advice and they did some work on my A8 and replaced both Exhaust Flexi joints. I travelled from deepest Dorset to Harrow for the work to be done, and was first car in the workshop at 8am, back on the road by mid morning back to Dorset.
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Just booked the '8 and the X5 in for a Mackies 'squirty-sucky thingy'.. It's a smidge more expensive for the 6-speed.. just over 300 quid each.
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I completely agree with Psyche and Sarg, if your gearbox needs serviced, this is really worth investing a relatively small sum in having it done properly.

Or putting it another way, the gearbox (along with the engine, maybe..) is probably the single most expensive, complex, and problematic part of the car, and your '8 will only be only worth scrap value if it is f**ked up by messing with it.

A "new" box from Audi is c£6k, so it's a worthwhile investment of a few hundred pounds to get a specialist to keep it running right.
Let's not forget I speak from experience here, my D2 gearbox failed just THREE days after it was 'serviced' by a VAG specialist - the emphasis being VAG specialist, not a GEARBOX specialist.

I had to scrap the car.

After it started playing up, me and my brother di d a second DIY flush of the gearbox oil as there was some suspicion that the garage had royally screwed it up, but it didn't help. DIYing the job is very hard to flush all the old oil through, and you will need at least DOUBLE the required amount of fluid to do so, so it doesn't really help you save any money either.
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My A4 is in bits on the drive cause the gearbox started to slip, then burnt itself out and now its being broken .

I guess I'm a little bit paranoid about auto boxes added with my lack of trust of anyone working on my car/s, mixed in with a little bit of wanting to save a couple of quid here and there its a bit of a struggle for me.

You are all right, it should be done by a professional and not me with a spanner and a ramp.

It looks like there is a couple of ZF sites in Bristol, which is closer and I got family there, so a place to stay if needed.
I will be contacting them in the coming weeks.
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Let's not forget I speak from experience here, my D2 gearbox failed just THREE days after it was 'serviced' by a VAG specialist - the emphasis being VAG specialist, not a GEARBOX specialist.

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I would agree with this, very important to get a transmission specialist as opposed to a VAG specialist, the local Audi indie around here refers all his customers to Mackies for anything transmission related. Looks like you might have found a suitable ZF agent in any case.

Guess you may have been here already....lists the ZF Approved Agents

http://www.zf.com/eu/content/en/grea...e_cars_uk.html

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Oh my God...there is so much mess in my head right now

I was reading your posts through out the day and now I'm not only confused but paranoid as well, plus now I don't want to trust my specialist on top of it even if I know they've got huge experience in servicing and rebuilding gearboxes, and I did seen them couple of times working on A8 and 10plate A6 gearboxes

Brian, I looked at your link and it looks like I've got at least 2-3 ZF approved specialists around London.

Originally I didn't want to service mine 3 years ago as other A8 owner told me about some little thing which if isn't done right it can **** the gearbox, so I got scared.

Now, I'm 100% sure I want and need to do it. I trust my VAG garage in every aspect, I know they've got all the required equipment, sucky thing etc, and experience on D3s gearboxes, BUT an Automatic transmission specialists doing only that so they would be the guys to go for????

Really confused, another headache for the weekend on top of my cold which I got after washing car last evening at 8pm in just a wet t-shirt
no no...I've had my pants on as well (thongs ) and I was all wet as it was windy not because I'm experience in wet t-shirts competitions
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