hey all,

need help asap. Have an Audi A4 b5 1.8t Quattro 5 speed. Gave it a slightly more aggressive start in first, as it was accelerating I heard like a pop/bang. Curious I clutch the car a slow down, I slowly continue driving and the car is fine and all gears engage. As I was driving I noticed the car would randomly slip out of gear and it would rev up and then catch. As I approached a friends driveway I have no first, it doesn't drive as if it's still in neautral. This now applies to all gears 1-4. 5th and reverse still catch normally as I can feel car wanting to start and move in 5th and I can drive it in reverse.

what can the issue be here?? Need help asap. From what I read it can't be fork as 1st and reverse are same gear so any ideas on what has happened?
waiting on car to be towed to mechanic from here now.

George

 

I've had a similar issue before and I'm thinking it's an internal shaft (or whatever the proper name is called - multiple gears are attached to their own respective internal "shaft").

Whatever it is, I'm 90% sure you have some tranny work that needs to be done (IE Internal parts replaced).

G/L

 

Thats no good :/ but I will wait and see if any other people have experienced or know of any similar issues and can shed some more light.

Thanks for the info.

 

I know it sucks to hear, but I dropped fourth out of my car - and although it drove fine in every other gear, it ultimately had to be rebuilt, because that's exactly what happened.

It would be nice to be able to blame the clutch or the drive axle, but your post has already ruled those out - and those are the only other mechanical issues I can think of that would cause a similar lack of drive-ability.

Our transmissions are very straight forward. We have a gearbox with gears in it - and the fluid is (supposed to be) "lifetime", although I've changed mine. When we drop a gear (like you have here), there aren't any hydraulics, or clutch packs, or electronics to blame (like in an automatic). It's usually mechanical and like I said: we only have gears (and synchronous shafts/forks) in our gearbox.

If the engine is running fine, then it has to be the transmission.....and there is only one way that I know of to drop gears with a "BANG!".

Keep me posted. I'd like to know how it goes.

G/L

 

Just to update:

Yep the internal shaft hooking up to the first 4 gears has snapped, my thought is that it was an accident waiting to happen as it happened so easy under minimal strain, here is a video