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Audi multitronic vs regular auto box

  • 09-08-2012 10:29am
    #1
    tc20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,454 ✭✭✭


    Folks,
    we'll be changing the family car in the next little while and the usual suspects are there (Passat, Mondeo, Accord etc, around the €5k mark) and the A4/A6 is in the mix too.
    I've seen various threads not in favour of the Audi multitronic box (car must be auto). My questions are:

    do all Audi auto's have the multitronic set-up, or are there regular Audi automatics which have a more reliable reputation?

    if so, can you physically tell one is a regular auto, and one a multitronic?

    Is the multitronic only on certain models?

    thanks


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  • #2
    galwaytt
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    tc20 wrote: »
    Folks,
    we'll be changing the family car in the next little while and the usual suspects are there (Passat, Mondeo, Accord etc, around the €5k mark) and the A4/A6 is in the mix too.
    I've seen various threads not in favour of the Audi multitronic box (car must be auto). My questions are:

    do all Audi auto's have the multitronic set-up, or are there regular Audi automatics which have a more reliable reputation?

    if so, can you physically tell one is a regular auto, and one a multitronic?

    Is the multitronic only on certain models?

    thanks

    Tbh, I changed car lately, and wanted an Audi, but could not find a 'conventional' auto, only Multitronic's........and, knowing someone who's 09 A6 has eaten its box, at 44k kms, I declined.....and bought a Saab 9-5 with a 'conventional ' torque converter auto instead.

    Even trawling the ads, too many had references to work having been done on the Multitronic boxes.....

    Now, a DSG / S-Tronic box Audi I'd have in a heartbeat. Had one in a VW before.

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  • #3
    RobAMerc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,863 ✭✭✭RobAMerc


    tc20 wrote: »
    Folks,
    we'll be changing the family car in the next little while and the usual suspects are there (Passat, Mondeo, Accord etc, around the €5k mark) and the A4/A6 is in the mix too.
    I've seen various threads not in favour of the Audi multitronic box (car must be auto). My questions are:

    do all Audi auto's have the multitronic set-up, or are there regular Audi automatics which have a more reliable reputation?

    if so, can you physically tell one is a regular auto, and one a multitronic?

    Is the multitronic only on certain models?

    thanks

    Multitronic / CVT is horrible - it makes the car totally characterless, you'd have to hate cars to have it.


  • #4
    tc20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,454 ✭✭✭tc20


    thanks for the replies folks.

    At a glance our budget would probably bring the 06 model A4 into scope, but i don't think we could stretch to the S-tronic or DSG variants.
    Are there any visual clues/badging/owner manual refs to spot a multitronic ?
    'tis odd that Audi didn't offer a regular TC auto as galwaytt says, but i guess if there offering a CVT, why would they have an option of types of autobox


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