Tip chip

[mbagge01]

I have a stage 3 2000 A6 2.7t with epl tune and K04 turbos and have been trying to find a dealer who sells tip chips for these cars. I am dealing with the annoying gear hunting issue. I was working with JHM motosports at one point but there chip kept putting my car in limp mode, which I am wondering if it was related to my car being an early model. I contacted 034motorsports and they will only give me one if I but their ECU tune. I was in the process of getting one from DAZ at VAG autowerks, but as your know he unfortunately recently passed away. Any other options out there?

[LakeTahoeQuattr]

I got mine back in the day from JHM and it worked fine. What problem are you getting? Any CELs?

I never left my foot planted with stage 3 power on shifts with my tip either

[dannyn424]

Daz's tip chip certainly helps and I can keep the power on

[LakeTahoeQuattr]

Daz's tip chip certainly helps and I can keep the power on

Sure you can, but its not advisable is all I am saying. I put the daz chip in another stg3 allroad and still the 5hp19 hates that much power but makes it significantly better.

[dannyn424]

I have a 517 trans and normally dont nail it but it feels good when i do .... daz tip chip sped up the "delay" between shifts...

[forcefed7]

So with Daz' unfortunate passing, what other options are out there? I've heard great things about VAST's TCU tune, but a google search leads me to believe they're out of business? (Sorry i'm relatively new to Audi community)
Unitronic?

[JoelKnauber]

Have you looked into the "00032" recode? I've been reading about that lately for my 4.2

[mbagge01]

I just came across a post where it was recommended to use the unitronic tuning software or lemminwinks and change channel 12 which is the torque scaling option from 100% to 90% and it will supposedly get rid of the gear hunting by reducing the increased torque that is seen in 5th gear causing it to jump around to 4th.

[forcefed7]

Have you looked into the "00032" recode? I've been reading about that lately for my 4.2

As I understand, this was just a soft recode that only held 1st gear to redline in tip mode only. People stated that it did not change any other transmission behavior other than that.

[mithril]

It also disabled the DSP features in the TCM, basically the transmission will no longer "learn" your driving style and become either aggressive or conservative in it's shift selection over time.

[mbagge01]

Check out this link about using lemmiwinks to fix the gear hunting problem. I would be interested to know by anyone if this would actually work.

http://www.audiworld.com/forums/s4-r...nting-1541153/