HooliganX

After years of driving "other" cars, my father is looking to get back into a P-car finally! He has a commute and is thinking of a Tip because of that.

I found a beautiful white 1997 C2S with Tip for sale locally. However I have had no experience with Tip transmissions at all.

For those who have a 993 with Tip, what are your impressions? He will be using it for daily driving and I hope to get him out to the occasional DE.

I'm mostly interested in your thoughts on the reliability. I know the 993 are mostly bulletproof otherwise. I used to have a '97 C4S and it was problem free.

Thanks in advance!

pjc

Porsche's Tiptronic system is considered almost bullet proof. Although only 4 speed, and the change can be a bit notchy they don't seem to go wrong.

PJC

Phil

I did a search for you
https://rennlist.com/forums/993-forum/199048-tip-poll-tiptronic-owners-only-please.html

993-CT

I had never owned an automatic before - and never thought I would ever get one.
For many reasons, I ended up getting a 993 Tip. The main drawback is that it has only 4 gears, and but for that I almost never miss a stick when driven in manual/Tip mode.

I asked around a lot about reliability and gathered that Tip failures/problems are practically unheard of.

HooliganX

Thanks for the replies and the link to the Tip poll. A lot of great comments there. It looks like the Tip is a great system with few problems. I really hope I can convince him on the white C2S, it looks like an incredible car.

ceboyd

I've put my tip though countless track DE days over the past 6 years and it shows no signs of even the slightest of problems.. I have 30k miles on my car but probably around 10K of them are DE track miles...

AnthemAVM

Hooligan,

Are you talking about the car at AutoHaus West? I was looking at that car, and the next day they raised the price on me.

Michael

MikeAlwaysWins

As mentioned above shifts are occasionally "notchy" and somewhat annoying, but otherwise it's a great tranny, especially in stop and go traffic...

Steve Weiner-Rennsport Systems

Hi Jon:

Tiptronics are just tough as hell,.....

Nothing to worry about; just change the fluid once in a awhile and your dad will really enjoy a troublefree car.

HooliganX

Yep that is the one. I haven't seen it in person yet just on their web site. Seems a little high asking price on the site, maybe if it sits a while they will become more reasonable.

They also had a blue C2S 6 speed on the web site, did you look at that one too? If so, what did you think of it?

Of course I still need to convince my dad to pull the trigger on one. If I can get him to go look at it in person I think he might.

Thanks again everyone for the comments, I searched and couldn't really find anyone with one who didn't like the Tip. This is why Rennlist ROCKS!

MikeAlwaysWins

I visited there last weekend... nothing of note other than a '98 Targa which is very nice....

David in LA

I have both a tip cab and a 6-speed cab. The tip is pretty durable and a very good choice for the RIGHT driving objective but is not as enjoyable as the 6-speed. But my tip cab is in Hong Kong where there is lots of traffic, mostly stop and go driving, and steep hills...very few places for spirited driving where you can open a car up, so the tip is almost perfect here.

Robert Linton

And I had a limited slip built for my Tiptronic.