Owner-reported complaints naming the transmission system, filed with NHTSA
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Reports naming the automatic or manual transmission, including shifting behaviour, shudder, slipping and transmission control modules. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 2001 Audi A6 submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 12 reports on file name it.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
Shown in the owner’s own words, exactly as filed
MY 2006 AUDI A-6 CVT JERKS ON START-UP OR WILL NOT ENGAGE FOR SEVERAL SECONDS AND THEN LEAPS FPRWARD. DEALER SAYS THERE IS A PROBLEM BUT DOES NOT REPORT WHAT THE PROBLEM COULD BE. *TR
TRANSMISSION WENT OUT WITH NOW WARNING AT 62,000 MILES...IT WAS VERY JOLTING AND HARD JERKING OF THE VEHICLE. *NM
TRANSMISSION FAILURE
CAR HESITATES WHEN PULLING FROM A STOP. HESITATION APPEARS TO BE TRANSMISSION RELATED. TRANSMISSION IS AUDI/ZF TIPTRONIC AUTOMATIC. HESITATION IS UNPREDICTABLE, AND CAN LAST FOR SEVERAL SECONDS. I HAVE HAD A NUMBER OF NEAR MISSES AS I PULLED INTO TRAFFIC AND HAVE HAD TO QUICKLY SHIFT TO REVERSE AND GET OUT OF THE WAY OF ONCOMING VEHICLES. AUDI STATES THAT THEIR TRANSMISSION IS WORKING AS DESIGNED. I BELIEVE THIS BECAUSE MY RESEARCH INDICATES THIS TO BE A KNOW BEHAVIOR OF THE TIPTRONIC TRANSMISSION AS USED IN AUDI AND SOME VOLKSWAGEN VEHICLES. VW/AUDI NEEDS TO FIX THIS PROBLEM BEFORE SOMEONE GETS SERIOUSLY INJURED OR KILLED.
THERE APPEARS TO BE A POSSIBLE DESIGN DEFECT THAT I BELIEVE MERITS REPORTING AND POSSIBLE INVESTIGATION. I HAVE 2001 AUDI A6. THE REPLACEMENT OF THE OIL FILTER AT A JIFFY LUBE RESULTED IN DAMAGE TO THE OIL COOLER WHICH CAUSE ME TO SUFFER A $800 PLUS REPAIR BILL AT THE DEALER. THE DEALER TECHNICIAN ADVISED JIFFY LUBE THAT THEY ARE AWARE OF THE POTENTIALITY OF PROBLEMS IN REPLACEMENT OF THE OIL FILTER AND AS RESULT HAVE ONE MECHANIC SECURE THE COOLER WITH CHANNEL LOCKS WHILE THE OTHER REMOVES THE OIL FILTER. THERE ARE NO PRESENT WARNINGS FOR SHOPS OF THIS METHOD TO ASSURE NO DAMAGE TO THE OIL COOLER. I PRESENTED A B.A.R. COMPLAINT IN CA. AND TOOK UP A SMALL CLAIMS ACTION FOR RECOVERY, JIFFY LUBE STEPPED UP BUT AUDI REFUSES AND DENIES ANY POSSIBLE DESIGN FLAW IN THEIR VEHICLE. AS A CONSUMER I CANNOT UNDERSTAND HOW IT SHOULD REQUIRE TWO TECHNICIANS TO REMOVE AND REPLACE AN OIL FILTER.*AK
AUDI 2001 A6 2.7T TIPTRONIC WHILE IN D TRANSMISSION MODE, CAR DOES NOT ACCELERATE PER ACCELERATOR INPUT AFTER USING THE BRAKES. THERE IS A DELAY OF ABOUT A COUPLE OF SECONDS BEFORE CAR ACCELERATES. THIS HAPPENS AFTER BRAKING FROM LOW SPEEDS FOLLOWED BY GENTLE ACCELERATION AND ALSO WHEN BRAKING FROM HIGHER SPEEDS FOLLOWED BY EITHER GENTLE OR AGGRESSIVE ACCELERATION. OFTEN THERE WILL BE A PRONOUNCED JERK WHEN THE CAR STARTS TO ACCELERATE AFTER THE DELAY. *LA SAFETY ISSUE TYPICAL SITUATION: WHEN CROSSING MEDIANS TO MERGE WITH TRAFFIC IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION, ONCOMING TRAFFIC HAVE TO BRAKE HEAVILY TO AVOID A COLLISION BECAUSE THE CAR IS UNABLE TO ACCELERATE SMARTLY AFTER BRAKING. THE SAME CROSSING IN PREVIOUSLY OWNED AUDI A4 1.8T AND AUDI A4 2.8 (BOTH WITHOUT FLY BY WIRE THROTTLE) COULD BE SAFELY NEGOTIATED WITHOUT ANY ACCELERATION DELAY. THIS SITUATION IS UNACCEPTABLE AND HIGHLY DANGEROUS IN NORMAL EVERYDAY DRIVING. REFERENCES FROM AUDIWORLD.COM FORUMS IT IS APPARENT THAT THERE ARE MANY OWNERS EXPERIENCING THIS PROBLEM. ALL HAVE THE AUDI TIPTRONIC TRANSMISSION AND FLY BY WIRE THROTTLE SYSTEM, NOT LIMITED TO THE 2.7T MODEL. HERE IS THE LINK TO THE LATEST MESSAGES HTTP://FORUMS.AUDIWORLD.COM/A6/MSGS/304185.PHTML ALSO, CONSUMER REPORTS HAVE NOTED THE DELAY IN ACCELERATION WHEN TESTING THIS CAR. HERE IS THE LINK. HTTP://WWW.CONSUMERREPORTS.ORG/MAIN/DETAILV2.JSP?CONTENT%3C%3ECNT_ID=302773&FOLDER%3C%3EFOLDER_ID=97851&ASSORTMENT%3C%3EAST_ID=333137&BMUID=1066370138539 SEVERAL OTHER REVIEWS IN THE U.S. AUTOMOBILE PRESS HAVE ALSO NOTED THE DELAY. REPAIR LOCAL AUDI DEALER IS UNABLE TO OFFER A SOLUTION SINCE THEIR TROUBLESHOOTING TECHNIQUES ONLY INDICATE A "NO FAULT FOUND" OR "UNABLE TO DUPLICATE" SITUATION (SEVERAL VISITS). ESCALATION TO AUDI HEADQUARTERS ELICITS STATEMENTS SUCH AS "WORKING AS PER DESIGN, "SAFETY FEATURE (PREVENT OVER REVVING DAMAGE TO ENGINE/TRANSMISSION)", AND "SYSTEM HAS TO PROCESS A LOT OF DATA". *LA
VEHICLE EXHIBITS DELAY FROM A STOP WHEN DEPRESSING THE GAS PEDAL. VERY DANGEROUS WHEN CROSSING ONCOMING TRAFFIC. *LA
TRANSMISSION/AUTOMATIC - NO RESPONSE FROM GAS PEDAL WHEN ATTEMPTING TO ACCELERATE FROM ROLLING STOP. CAR THEN HIGH-REVS AND FINALLY JERKS FORWARD, AFTER AN APPROXIMATE 1-2 SECOND DELAY.*AK
CONSUMER IS UPSET BECAUSE HE HAD TO HAVE A BRAND NEW TRANSMISSION REPLACED. AFTER TAKING TRANSMISSION TO MECHANIC, HE WAS TOLD THAT HE NEEDED TRANSMISSION REPLACED BECAUSE IT WAS NOT WORKING PROPERLY. ALSO, IT WAS HESITATING AT SLOW SPEEDS, CLUMPING WHEN IT WAS GOING IN AND OUT OF 1ST TO 2ND GEAR. IN ADDITION, VEHICLE WAS REVVING AT 6000 RPMS BEFORE SHIFTING INTO GEAR.*AK
AUTOMOBILE SLOWS UP WHEN GOING UP A HILL, IT SEEM AS IF TURBO IS NOT FUNCTIONING. WAS TOLD THAT IT WAS TRANSMISSION OR TURBO HAD A HOLE IN IT. *AK
THERE WERE PROBLEMS GETTING THE PARTS NEEDED TO FIX THE TRANSMISSION. AUDI USED MY CAR TO TRAIN MECHANICS, RATHER THAN REPLACING THE ENTIRE TRANSMISSION AND GET MY CAR BACK TO ME IN A TIMELY MANNER. THE WRONG PARTS WERE ORDERED, WHEN THE RIGHT PARTS WERE ORDERED THEY WERE NOT MACHINED TO PROPER TOLLERANCES. THE CAR WAS DELIVERED MISSING CRUCIAL PARTS IN THE TRANSMISSION!
WHILE PARKED, VEHICLE CAUGHT ON FIRE, THE VEHICLE EXPERIENCED A FIRE THAT ORIGINATED IN THE LEFT FRONT CORNER OF THE ENGINE COMPARTMENT, THE ONLY POSSIBLE NATURAL CAUSE FOR THE FIRE WOULD BE AN ELECTRICAL MALFUNCTION, CLAIM 13-7000-834. *SLC
Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.
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