Originally Posted by Faust T.

I'm with you on this one, my car has the exact same problem since Sep of this year, 12 Macan S with 62K on the clock,
except that my car doesn't give a fault code, but I have 96mo/100k extended warranty so I can wait a bit.

Originally Posted by CPG890

Sounds like you are very well protected with that warranty. I just spoke with a Porsche Master technician (in confidence) at a well respected shop around here, and after listening to me describe the symptoms, he advised me to get rid of the car immediately. He also indicated that if you are experiencing symptoms of component failures, take that as a blessing that it will just fail one day (and be a prohibitively costly repair compared to the residual value at that time) and unload the car before it does. He indicated some of us aren’t as lucky to get warning symptoms and the PDK just fails one day and then you are “left in the lurch”. I didn’t want to hear any of this— I love this car. Ugh. Anyhow, I have to accept this as the right thing to do for me, and be grateful that things aren’t worse. This whole thread has been quite the education for me. I deeply appreciate the discourse amongst everyone here as it gave me a lot to think about.

Originally Posted by Olddragger

A lot of good points on this thread. When surfing through the different Macan forums and through continued contact with the indies in the Atlanta ga area more and more people are experiencing transmission related problms. This is to be expected as the mileage and age increases on the first generation Macans. The good news is I have nor seen any gearbox problems, only the control side. The clutch also seems to be pretty good. All the problems seen that are repaired have to do with the mechatronic controls. The tcu itself seems to be pretty good too.
As time goes by indies are giving this advise in the interest of longitivity.
1- drive the car in sport mode and use the paddles frequently. This helps the transmission run cooler. The heat reduction is from less gear changes and the engine coolant being better cooled from the louvers being open. Don't believe the engine coolant temperature gauge in the cluster.
2- do not tow anything over a lawn mower trailer size with the stock setup. If you tow a big boat, camper, horse trailer etc install a additional transmission cooler and temperature gauge.
3- change the fluid more frequently if you do a lot of stop and go driving or have a driving environment that promotes transmission heat build up --- living in the mountains for example. This includes changing the internal filter, every other change. A lot of Audi guys ( basically the same transmission) change every 20K miles. Change the transfer case fluid when you change the transmission fluid. Also upgrade your fluid from what Porsche uses. Motul/ Redline comes to mind.
These suggestions will go a long way toward helping this transmission stay trouble free.