Tiptronic Transmission Saga Continues....

[Jinster]

Well, my tip has been leaking for a few months. It finally got rebuilt with a new casing, took a few months, but the leak is now fixed, by a ZF automatic specialist.

As I drove home from the workshop, I park the car to have dinner. After dinner, I reverse the car, and that's it. The car got stuck in neutral and wouldn't budge. I felt that the shifter cable wasn't hooked up as it had no resistance. So back it goes to the auto trans workshop 3AM in the morning, and sure enough, they found that the shifter cable link was broken. Porsche uses plastic items apparently and they break easily. So they fabricated a new link, out of metal, and replaced it. Adjusted the cable length, off I go again.

This time, I got about 400m out, did a turn, and lost all driving force. The car felt like it was in neutral, and the 4th gear light came on. I struggled to get the car back to the workshop, and found that I couldn't get the car restarted in park. It would restart in neutral though. So I figured this must be that the shifter cable length needs re-adjustment.

The thing that bothers me though, is that I don't seem to have reverse either. If the shift link isn't in the right position, you would think that by moving the shifter lever through its entire range, I would be able to get reverse at some point? But that wasn't the case. The workshop is at a loss at the moment, and they will resume work on it next week.

So, $8000 of a repairs/rebuilds later, my tiptronic is still stuffed.... it's just been one disaster after another.... I getting rather desperate.

Does anyone know what all this can be due to?

[MNBoxster]

Hi,

Sorry to hear of your trouble. It does sound as if the thing requires further cable adjustment. Also, have they checked the Control Unit for faults and reset it? The flashing 4th gear indicator is a fault indicator. You may not have reverese if the Reverse Lockout is malfunctioning. See my post - http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=6025

You do have a Reverse Lockout on the tranny, with it being out of adjustment, you may just have this lockout engaged preventing reverse operation. Hope this helps.

Happy Motoring!... Jim'99 (w/ TipS)

Edited August 28, 2005 by MNBoxster

[Jinster]

Thanks Jim. I am waiting to hear back from the workshop on this. Just wanted to rant and vent. :)