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My tiptronic stopped working on my Avant

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Old 09-19-2005, 01:45 PM
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Default My tiptronic stopped working on my Avant

I was getting a pretty hard click getting it into tip and now it stopped working. Is there a switch under the shifter that engages the tip? I don't really use it on my Avant but still it bugs me. The lower gears work by manually putting the car in those gears.
Old 09-19-2005, 02:03 PM
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Default Most often the little magnets that tell the tranny where the shifter has been moved to.

Sometimes the alignment is off, and other times a magnet falls off, and least often, the electronics of the position sensor fail.

If you search the forum you should be able find details on this.
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Default I believe it's a magnet issue

Search on tiptronic and magnet. The gear selector has to "announce" that it's in tip by way of the magnetic switch.
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Default Just to let you know I had the same problem and it wasn't the magnets...turned out to be............

the circuit board.....

but I tried the magnet fix first...8^)
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Default What did that run you ($$)?...

or was it a warranty claim?

Always curious...

thx,
Jon
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MIne was a hairline crack in the circuitboard, not too expensive but a pain to get the **** off.
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