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Many moons ago, when our booth at the AAPEX show in Vegas was right behind the huge ZF booth, I had a chat with one of the German ZF reps. I asked him why so many of their transmissions in Audis (mostly the old 5-speeds at that time) began to be problematic after not much more than 100,000 miles. He told me that there were two reasons:ZF service recommendations and fluid change procedure , not VAG.
Sure it is. But it's the Hardware Part number:It is NOT the PN.
Part No SW: 8W0 907 551 R HW: 06M 907 309 H
They take the correct hardware and put appropriate software in them.All these ECM's seem to be made or ordered on a as needed basis.
I think you'll find that you can't monitor eff all on the ZF.... I tried to dig into all the stuff that I'm used to seeing on the egg in my A6 and was greatly disappointed.The A6 has less than 20,000 miles on it, but the documents you linked suggest I should service the transmission based on age alone. I've never monitored transmission temperature while driving it.
Well, that A6 is gone. Traded it for the Gas-Reg, which of course has an Aisin trans.I think you'll find that you can't monitor eff all on the ZF....
.... However, note that the suffix or part of it is not in the Auto-Scan,
Done.Uwe, could you add this information to post #44?
Oh, you bet. I have 5,400 miles on it all ready! That is a second set of wheels and (All season Michelins) ; the factory set that came on the car has competition / track (summer) Pirelli tires. So, from November to April, I'll use the Michelins.And post #53: That's a shiny clean rim! Do you even drive that car?![]()


I thought I would post these notes for SFD related service functions, specifically Rear Brake pad lining change and SRI reset. Some notes are copied from RT Admin. (Uwe and Dana) and some are my short hand notes prior to running the steps involved. These were preformed (successfully) on my 2024 RS5 B9.5 vehicle.
I also posted a copy of this for the same vehicle in the Reference Scans and Maps of non-broken cars section of the forum.
SRI Reset:
Hi Stefan,
I believe Eric is correct and the time, rather than distance, is why the car is nagging you for Inspection. It is set to warn 30 days ahead of time (IDE05930-Service notification in days,30 d) with the limit of 730 days (IDE12979-Inspection: time until next inspection,730 d) and you are at 711 days.
Both of these channels should reset to 0 days and distance since:
IDE12980-Inspection: distance driven since the last inspection FIX: Distance SINCE last mileage-dependent Inspection 12700 km ---IDE12981-Inspection: time since the last inspection FIX: Time SINCE last time-dependent Inspection 711 d ---
.. if you do this:
1) Connect to Address 19, unlock SFD and then turn off the firewall via ADP channel IDE16611-Diagnosis filter: temporary deactivation
2) Try the [SRI Reset] function once more using the 2nd drop-down menu Operation: Reset FIX&ESI / INSP - North America or Rest of World second service and later
.. followed by [Perform SRI].
You may need to cycle the ignition after the new values were saved so the cluster/MIB update. Providing that worked as expected you can go back into address 19 and re-lock it so the Release / Enable Active DTC can be cleared.
Address 03: ABS Brakes
Brake Pad/lining Change:
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