Tiptronic box

[Alscoob]

Out of interest anyone had a problem with their gearbox? mine seems to have a judder only when changing form 3rd to 4th and only in normal / slow driving. If you have your foot down it changes smoothly, all other gears are fine.

Had it in the stealers, didnt fix it, now on the second attempt.... and are changing tiptronic valve thingey which apparantly needs to be calibrated to the car and takes 2 days!!

Be interesting to hear of any others problems if any

 

[MarkK]

My 06MY "S" hangs on to first gear from cold, and on the first change up clunks a bit then after is smooth,worried me when it was new.... something to do with warming the cats up apparently???Been fine done 40k now.

 

[Alscoob]

Similar in 1st as your but no clunk... anyway call from OPC late yesterday, valve thing didn't work still the same so.... there fitting a new gearbox [:-]. thank goodness its under warranty!! Lets hope the new one lasts longer.

Seems that this car is spending more time in the workshop in the 3 months of ownership than my last 2 cars did in 3 years.. not good []

German reliability = -1
Japanese reliability = +2

 

[Gander101]

[&o] Anyone else had any gear box issues ...... mines been fine upto now, coming upto 33K ..... only I was contacted by a Club member before Christmas who experienced a complete failure, car out of warranty and now faced with a large bill , not much in the way of good will from Porsche either ..... I'd interested to know if there is a problem.

 

[Alscoob]

Picking it up this afternoon... they tell me all done and fine!! we'll see then.

I'll try to find out if they know what the actual problem was.... more than likely they didn't, so to save wasting time on trying things they just replaced the lot [:-]

 

[tiskev]

mine snatched from day one went back a couple of times for a gearbox tune no difference eventually decided to live with it it is mostly when cold and in winter .

 

[Alscoob]

This wasn't a snatch type feel, but a judder...and quite severe... could feel it through the floor... on change from 3 to 4.....

..anyway picked it up today and all seems fine. Asked the question "what was the actual fault"..... apparently they didnt know but it was in the gearbox itself....so change the box, it easier than stripping it down & looking for the fault..

...anyway typical OPC service advisor, you would be lucky if those girls new one end of a dipstick from the other...asked to speak to the mechanic..ooops 'the technician' but he wasn't available...still got a new gearbox now, so all I have to do is teach it how I drive!!