So my A6 has been giving me grief for about two weeks now, ever since I picked it up from a random garage near Industrial Area that promised a cheap fluid flush for the automatic gearbox. Long story short, three days later the car went into limp mode on Sheikh Zayed road during rush hour, which was honestly terrifying, and now it just refuses to shift past third gear no matter what I do. I took it back to the same place twice and they kept telling me it needs time to reset itself, which sounded off to me but I didn't know enough about these ZF gearboxes to argue. A colleague at work who also drives an Audi mentioned that these transmissions are pretty sensitive to the exact type of fluid used and that generic flushes can actually mess up the adaptation values stored in the TCU, which would explain the jerky shifting I'm getting now. I ended up doing some digging online last night and came across a Trusted Audi transmission repair workshop in Sharjah that apparently specializes just in Audi and VAG group gearboxes, they had a bunch of reviews mentioning similar limp mode issues being fixed properly with actual diagnostic tools instead of guesswork. Has anyone here actually taken their Audi to a specialist versus a general mechanic for transmission problems, and did it make a real difference in cost versus reliability. I'm based in Sharjah so ideally I want somewhere local rather than driving all the way to Dubai, but I'm honestly a bit gun shy now after this experience and don't want to throw more money at guesswork. Also curious if anyone knows whether Audi transmissions here in the UAE heat require different maintenance intervals compared to what the manual says, since I wonder if the constant AC use and stop start traffic might be part of why mine failed early at only 95k km. Any advice, workshop names, or even just "yeah mine did the same thing" would help me feel less alone in this whole mess, because right now I'm just parking the car and using taxis until I figure out who actually knows what they're doing with these gearboxes.