# 2002 vw jetta 1.8 tiptronic

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/2002-vw-jetta-1-8-tiptronic/61570>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** jetta, transmissions, volkswagen\
**Created:** [February 19, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2002-vw-jetta-1-8-tiptronic/61570 "2011-02-19T18:19:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![6rsantos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/3d9bf3/32.png) [@6rsantos](https://community.cartalk.com/u/6rsantos)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2002-vw-jetta-1-8-tiptronic/61570/1 "2011-02-19T18:19:20Z")

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I have the above referenced car with about 65k miles on it. Today I took it for a drive, switched it to tip-tronic manual and found that the car would not shift past 3rd gear. When I switched to automotic, the transmission stayed on tip-tronic (the display indicated I was on 3rd gear). I had to fully stop the car, place it on park and only then did the transmission switch to automatic.  
  
 Has anyone else had this problem?

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**Author:** ![andrew\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/91b2a8/32.png) [@andrew\_j](https://community.cartalk.com/u/andrew_j)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2011, 1:39am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2002-vw-jetta-1-8-tiptronic/61570/2 "2011-02-20T01:39:36Z")

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Leave the tiptronic off. You are the 1% of owners who actually use it and yours appeared to have failed after 9yrs. Be happy the automatic shifts.