Anyone on here have an IMS failure with Tiptronic trans?

[JFP in PA]

Originally Posted by KRAM36

As the title asks, anyone on here have an IMS failure with Tiptronic trans?

Changed my oil today for the first time since I got the car. The car has 103k miles on it with a Tiptronic transmission. I found no metal of any kind in the filter and it made me wonder if Tiptronic trans equipped cars are less susceptible to IMS failure since they don't redline the tach. Thinking maybe over revs on a manual trans cause the IMS problems?

Over revs have nothing to do with it. When the seal fails, oil washes out the grease, and the bearing starts to destroy itself.

We have seen a couple Tip IMS failures, but as there are far fewer Tips, smaller numbers of failures are to be expected.

[mountainman]

I had IMS failure at 46K in my C4 with tiptronic No over rev history on it. Doesn't seem to be a factor.