Joseph Schneider

So I've had two things happen when backing up in reverse in my '92 Carrera 2 Tiptronic. One time, after coming back after a drive, I was backing up a short distance in my driveway and I hear a load "rubbing" noise (like when you back up and something get caught under the car). At first I thought it was a wash bucket or something but when I checked, there was nothing behind the car. I realized it was a noise coming from the car but couldn't reproduce it.

This weekend, I went for a drive with my son. We drove around town and even drive a short distance on the freeway. During this time I gave it the beans a couple of times and on the way back to the house I manual mode shifted it from the stop light a short distance (straight line) and then dropped it back into auto mode. Drive a couple of miles back to the house. Again in the driveway, I went to back up in reverse and the car felt like the e-brake was dragging (but no noise).

My driveway is not on a hill and relatively flat.

Both instances of odd behavior happened while backing up and certainly after the car (and triptronic) were up normal operating temperature.

Any thoughts or feedback?

Aside from the gauge on the side of the transmission, is there any way to check the triptronic fluid level?

JohnK964

Joseph Schneider

Quick update: After looking into this, the issue is likely due to worn transmission mounts (I have a tiptronic C2). When we put a car in reverse, the torque on the engine and driveline behaves differently then when we are powering the car forward.

Regardless, Im uprating the engine mounts to OE RS mounts (the car was wearing its original mounts) and at the same time, am replacing the tiptronic's mounts.

I'll keep you all posted...

JohnK964