Kris Hansen

My allroad has this really weird thing it does. More often than not, when I take it out of D into either N or P, it's as if the transmission doesn't disengage correctly and the whole car kind of shudders, audibly from outside. I'm not the only one who has heard it either. I can reproduce it at will, *except* when it was at the dealer to have it looked at last week. Typical. "no code, no problem" says the dealer.

I told the service manager that I drove my old A6 5 miles with NO transmission fluid due to a fist size hole in the pan, and it never threw a code, yet amazingly I didn't need the f*cking computer to tell me there was a problem.

So now I get to wait till either it throws a code, or the transmission eats itself

planekiller1

Sounds strange, but when I got my avant reading up about the ZF8 it actually goes from R to 2nd then into 1st meaning it takes off slowly, but I've never had my trans do something funky going from D to N/P. Personally I'd record it then show the dealer a video (The case usually was that it couldn't be replicated by us or the customer upon arrival) so this is what we told them to do. If you figure it out please post back and let us know
Hope this helps,
Kurt