RE: Driving Impression 98 Passat V6 Tip.

[Peter_Szalay@amat.com]

Does anyone know about refitting the new 99's wheel mounted tiptronic
controls to a 98 tiptronic?

Peter

Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 13:44:55 -0700
From: "Geoff Jenkins" <jenkinsg@pilot.msu.edu>
Subject: RE: Driving Impression 98 Passat V6 Tip.

Ok, this is from memory, so don't quote it as gospel, but: in European car
in (I think) the middle of last year, there was an article on a
lowered/tuned A4 with a pesudo-tip transmission (possibly part of a set of
articles on modified A4s?). The shifter etc was as per the stock autobox,
but with two additional buttons on the selector (for going up/down a gear),
and as I recall, the builder said that the wiring needed for all this was
already in place.

So: a) I may be hopelessly wrong on this (b) if not, does anyone with a
better-organized EC collection or a better memory happen to know what/when
it was?

Geoff

> My mission is, now, to figure out how to add Tiptronic to my A4.  I hate
> to search A4.org because of the S/N ratio there,  so I wanted to check
> with the A4 owners here and see if anyone with a pre-tiptronic A4 knows
> what is involved in adding it to my car.  I.e., are the electronics the
> same, but the shifter itself different, or am I looking at changing out
> both my tranny computer and my shifter (in which case I would just be
> better off probably selling my A4 and buying a newer one.)