Tiptronic tranny hesitation

[cnavarro]

Two suggestions - maybe have the Tiptronic module flashed or reset. Also, you might find improvement in having the ATF changed. Whenever our Passat's Tip gets "grumpy", a fluid change works wonders. It has just about 60k miles on it and it's probably on it's 4th fill. We drive the ol' w8 kinda hard :-)

[vath2001]

My 98 has the same 2400-2500 hesitation in 2nd gear. I always wondered about it. Now I know it part of the design of the varicam system.
One less item to worry about.