CHIP????
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Re: CHIP????
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
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
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Re: CHIP????
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
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
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