whats the advantage of tip. does it work like a normal manual does the car go faster with with ...can you mess up the gears like in a manual also how do you keep it in high PRMS

 

I have a 2000 A6 2.7T and the numbers between manual and tip are extremely close. In fact, I usually do better than the manuals because I don't believe anyone can manually shift better than the tip. I remember a review (it was car of the year in 2000) in which the author said you're better off leaving it in auto shift rather than manual-tip shifting because the computer has a couple of hundred different shift patterns it's capable of using via computer and will usually outperform anyone using a manual or manual-shifting tip. When I floor it, my A6 runs way up to red-line in each gear before shifting and never goes below 3,000RPM (turbo stays involved). It's almost scary but you may be better off just leaving it in auto and stomping on it.

Again, I am not sure if this applies to your car if it's not the A6 2.7T.

 

Autos suffer from drivetrain loss because of the torque converter - so you do lose some slight HP to the wheels. There are no performance advantages of a tip - they are all convenience advantages.

Auto when you want it, switch to tip for fun. I have a tip and love it. Good for driving in traffic.

 

One of the biggest convenience advantages, like I have said before, is the ability to get road head while driving a clutchless manual!


Or drop it in full auto and put one hand on the back of her head.