Tiptronic tranny hesitation

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Originally Posted by xavier405

Hi all, I've been a member for many months (lurking) and just recently bought an '02 Boxster with tip. 27000 miles. Everything is great with the car and I'm incredibly happy with it!

BUT... I am noticing a hesitation with the transmission in second gear... During moderate acceleration from a stop, the car starts in 2nd gear and pulls on up through 2500 rpm. At 2500 there is a hesitation. Then is goes right on past up to 4 or 5000 until the next upshift.

During soft acceleration, the gears shift up at about 2000 to 2500 rpm and it works fine. During hard acceleration, the trans kicks down to 1st gear, rolls up smoothly to the redline in first through second and on up.

Anyway this is the perfect question for my upcoming 30k mile service. It may even be a warranty item. What might be going on here? Is this the kind of thing that can be easily reprogrammed into the control chip? What are the questions I should ask at the dealer service?

Thanks and keep having fun!

Hi all,

I have a 2001 Box-car with Triptronic Trans, I think I can ans your question. In automatic mode (D) the car will start out in 2nd gear as per the dash indicator light but will auotmaticly defer to 1st gear and then shift to 2nd depending on how hard you are excel, will determine at what RPM the trans will shift at (ie) slow excel the trans will shift around 2k under hard excel the trans could shift at 3k or 3.5k it just depends how hard your standing on it!!!