I have the B6 and crapping myself that the CVT will go. Rather than wait it out and lose 8k for a new CVT, i'm better off selling and adding the 8k towards a newer B7...

But a manual is a lot harder to sell on where I live, so tell me, are the CVT issues a thing of the past on the B7's ?

Thanks in advance.

 

Simple answer...No.

Why? Cause it was a poor design to begin with that remained unchanged with the B7 model.

 

I had a CVT in my B6 and traded it at 100k with no problems. I am at like 85K on my B7 CVT with no problems.

If you have to have Auto, the Quatro will not come with a CVT only FWD's do. I really don't like the CVT just cause it's wierd. Get the Quatro and Tiptronic or manual and you will like it better anyway.

 

Ya just buy a quattro, like 2wdblazer said, the quattros dont have the CVT, its just an auto transmission. Its the fwd's that have the CVT. Or just be a real man and buy a manual :P

 

whats so bad about the CVT trans?

 

i love for now my b7 cvt trans with 65k on it...great gas mileage! when i want to act out i use the S MODE on it :-)

 

It feels like when you ride the clutch in a stick at 5k rpm and the car will move but the rpms stay the same. Thats how this tranny feels as it never actually shifts gears, it just melds in to the next gear. Just feels Wierd. My other car is the extreme opposite as it is a DSG auto which pounds into gear faster than any tranny out there. DSG's are sick.

 

i like that analogy. ive noticed that with this cvt trans, until i put it into sport mode haha.

 

So my 08 A4 Avant S-Line Quatro doesnt have the CVT then? It's a tiptronic with paddle shifters

 

Nope, quattro doesn't have CVT.