zuzubird1

Can a chip screw up your tranny or IMO?

Paul H. (near Annapolis, MD)

If you are talking about just a chip it will be no problem for a manual transmission.

And while torque produced by most of the popular chips is over the over the max torque rating of both the automatic and Tiptronic, I haven't seen any reports of broken Tiptronics yet. And there are a lot of Tip owners here with chips (even a few with bigger turbos). If you have one of the pre '98 models w/out the Tip, you may want to think twice or get a low-power chip, because one of the tuners (AMS) did find that the torque converter in the older non-Tip automatics cannot handle too much of a power increase.

Assuming IMO = Immobilizer, I know that APR has a workaround for immobilizer issues, not sure about others. I would suggest calling them and asking about this before you purchase.

Paul

zuzubird1

tHANKS FOR THE INPUT

aLTREADY GOT THE CHIP A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO AND NOW MY TRANNY is shot, I am told I need 12, g's for a new one. HAHA YEH RIGHT, LIKE i HAVE THAT KIND OF MONEY FOR A TRANNY

silverwrxwagon

$12K seems like a lot. Are they denying your warranty?