My tiptronic is fine, 130k and no issues whatsoever. Just keep fresh trans fluid in them and you're fine. And by the model revision in mid '99 they'd pretty much solved the problem. Even in the US, it's rare to hear of a 99+ auto failing.

Though having said all that, I've never heard of one actually failing in this country. Plenty of examples in the US, which makes absolutly no sense since they were all made in the same factory; but none from here. I think I have enough posts and reputation on here to be able to make a comment like that.