2005.5 Tiptronic -- Manual shifting does not work?

[hcokiid]

I have a 2005.5 A4 3.2

Very nice car for the most part, has 205k miles - runs and drives extremely well, you'd think it had 100k miles.

anyways when I put the gear selector in the manual shift gate its not letting me control the shifting, it acts as if it was still in "D"

my transmission shifts perfect so I am confused to why this is not working..

any ideas?
Thanks

[The_Ocho]

Does your DIS change from the regular PRND to 654321 or no?

[Luis_Heineken]

must be nothing serious, good luck

[waiapasi2006]

Did you check it with vagcom for any codes?

[hcokiid]

It does not. It says PRND and does not show the gear. I believe my S mode does work though.

[hcokiid]

I also have a CEL for p0332 knock sensor 2 bank 2. That's the only code, so I cleared it hoping that the tip wasn't working because of the CEL well my CEL stayed out for 200 miles and returned, tip never worked with it off.

I hope this is nothing serious. I'm also trying to find a DIY for the knock sensor and having no luck.

[brew_daugus]

Is the little plastic cover at the bottom snapped under the rest of the sliding cover? I know mine popped out was on top and I wasn't able to shift in tip mode

[hcokiid]

It's broke and moves around but it does slide over to the "+" and "-" shifting perfectly. Is that the problem?

[brew_daugus]

Probably, it was mine atleast. There should be one slider around the actual shifter, and it has two almost tabs on the top and bottom, they're supposed to be under the gate.

[hcokiid]

Was it hard/expensive to fix ?

[brew_daugus]

Was it hard/expensive to fix ?

Mine just snapped back into place an wha-la, it worked again.

[hcokiid]

Ok I think mine is broken to the point it won't snap back into place lol.