My gearbox bit the dust again..

06:45 on my way to work down the M1, pull into Watford Gap, fill her up, pay, set off and THUD....

PRNDS lit up, safe mode. Thought it couldn't happen again so soon, how wrong was I.

Limped along to the A43 turn off, pulled into the lay by and turned her off to see if it would reset.

It did reset, but then I was marooned...

Basically, it would go into drive, but then pulling away and it wouldn't change gear, stuck in 1st with the constant threat of an almighty bang coming. I tried the selector, tiptronic, nope

RAC had to come out and pick me up on a flatbed again, after me basically telling them I was not about to risk driving all the way down to Hays to VM Transmissions again in 1st gear. It's with Parish now, he cleared the codes and forced it to throw the fault again, it read as speed sensor or incorrect ratio.

He's gonna take a look and get back to me with the tale of woe...

Seriously guys, this may be the last straw as I cannot afford this car any more. It's the time it takes out of my working week and the hassle trying to fix up alternative transport, days off work, working time back when it needs fixing.

Then it's the money, I mean this will be expensive if I can't get it done under the warrantly from it's previous episode at VMT.

This is now officially the most unreliable car I've ever owned (and I've owned some pretty cruddy cars in the past).

Why oh why did Audi use this POS gearbox, and why did they not give us brits the manual option?

Ok, moan over - I'll keep you posted...