Tiptronic service question
07-04-2010, 10:21 PM
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Tiptronic service question
I just bought an '05 CTT from NoCal and had it shipped to my location. It should arrive today at the port. It has 72k miles. I have several stuff in line to do once it arrives, like oil change, air filter change, etc.
From reading stuff here, I learned that the transmission is sealed and recommended fluid change is at 160k miles, unless the vehicle does towing and of-roading work. Since we do not have any Porsche dealers in my area, I have to rely on my indy (who does all Porsches in where I live) and his advice is to do a tranny service, like changing the oil and filter, just to be on the safe side. His argument is that we have very hot and humid climate here and seeing at a lot of automatic BMWs that had suffered premature failure here, he highly recommends to do it.
My question is, since it is at 72k miles and I would assume mostly highway and suburban miles, should I do a full tranny service like changing the oil and filter? Is there a risk in opening up a sealed transmission? Or would draining what can be drained and fill it up with fresh oil be good enough?
Please consider that the CTT would be driven only 3k-4k miles in a year. Given the 5 estimated years I may have this vehicle, that is just 15k-20k miles. I don't see it reaching 100k miles in my hands.
Thanks for any opinions on this matter.
From reading stuff here, I learned that the transmission is sealed and recommended fluid change is at 160k miles, unless the vehicle does towing and of-roading work. Since we do not have any Porsche dealers in my area, I have to rely on my indy (who does all Porsches in where I live) and his advice is to do a tranny service, like changing the oil and filter, just to be on the safe side. His argument is that we have very hot and humid climate here and seeing at a lot of automatic BMWs that had suffered premature failure here, he highly recommends to do it.
My question is, since it is at 72k miles and I would assume mostly highway and suburban miles, should I do a full tranny service like changing the oil and filter? Is there a risk in opening up a sealed transmission? Or would draining what can be drained and fill it up with fresh oil be good enough?
Please consider that the CTT would be driven only 3k-4k miles in a year. Given the 5 estimated years I may have this vehicle, that is just 15k-20k miles. I don't see it reaching 100k miles in my hands.
Thanks for any opinions on this matter.
07-04-2010, 11:30 PM
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If it is not broke, then don't fix it. Alot of times, when you open and mess with things it makes it worse. I would just leave it.
07-05-2010, 04:52 AM
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how about just draining the old oil and filling it with fresh oil without opening it, even though it won't be a 100% change of transmission oil?