i did the exact same thing yesterday except mine is tiptronic.....now the car wont move so i have to tow it and pay to get it refilled with fluid....i tried to do it myself with a pump today but for some reason the tranny fluid wasnt pumping into the tranny.....it was coming out faster than it was being pumped in......now i gotta big mess in my lot + i have to pay for tranny fluid refill.....not how i planned a simple oil change!!!

 

Glad you figured it out... But tell your friend that even if he had 200k miles on his engine, it would still be recomended to use the correct oil viscosity.

 

hahaha yes his car is tiptronic to so he did the same but luckly the nicest spanish immigrant mechanic worked across the street from me and only charged him 50$ to fix his mistake by change the oil and draining the rest of the tranny fluid and add some nice new red fluid to it. And as far a the vicusity of the oil or what ever thats all up to my friend idk the mechanic told him cause high mileage he recomends 10w40 but he put 10w30 in the car so its all on his hands he told me that with the mobile one syntehic oil he really could feel the throttle response he told me his gas pedal got pretty hard lol.

 

uhhhhhhhh.....dude if his audi is 96 and up.....the tranny fluid is supposed to be honey like color not red.....ATF 1 fluid......i remember because my friend is a euro shop owner,he specifically told me about the color.....what kind of tranny fluid did that spanish person put in.....

 

one more thing.....in the beginning of ut thread ur talking in 1st person and towards the end ur talkin in 3rd person....may I ask y?

 

Dude, if he has a tiptronic he uses ATF (red wine collor). I have a 5 speed and my fluid was a dark honey color. Listen to the verterans here... they know whats going on.

 

i dont know man i went to the audi dealer today and that is what they gave me for tiptronic.....they are the real experts.....

 

Audi's atf color is honey colored and the Pentosin equivilant like ecs carries is darker, but not red.

 

thank you glad i got that one right....+1 for me.....yeeeeeeee

 

yeah, if you put red in it, you got the wrong color fluid.