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Changing manual gearbox to automatic

  • 30-06-2016 11:26am
    #1
    Help!!!!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,965 ✭✭✭


    How hard/easy would it be to take out a manual gearbox from a car & put in an automatic?
    Also would it be costly?


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  • #2
    R.O.R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,699 ✭✭✭✭R.O.R


    Help!!!! wrote: »
    How hard/easy would it be to take out a manual gearbox from a car & put in an automatic?
    Also would it be costly?

    Very difficult and very costly.

    Cheaper and easier to trade the manual in for an auto.


  • #3
    grogi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,615 ✭✭✭grogi


    Help!!!! wrote: »
    How hard/easy would it be to take out a manual gearbox from a car & put in an automatic?
    Also would it be costly?

    The only sensible way to do it is to sell manual car and buy an automatic.


  • #4
    Help!!!!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,965 ✭✭✭Help!!!!


    Yeah that's what I thought
    Thanks for your help


  • #5
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Unless there is some special value about the car it is not worth the trouble.


  • #6
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,974 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    Its a lot of work and you will usually need an ECU from an auto version of your car or an aftermarket one.


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  • #7
    fancy pigeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,865 ✭✭✭fancy pigeon


    It's usually the other way round, which is an involved ask and requires new bits such as propshaft, flywheel, looms, mounts, cluch pedal + hydraulics, plumb up outstanding coolant lines etc

    Not for the cheap or faint hearted


  • #8
    Sh1tbag OToole
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,973 ✭✭✭Sh1tbag OToole


    fancy pigeon wrote: »
    Not for the cheap or faint hearted

    But worth it :D:P:cool:


  • #9
    fancy pigeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,865 ✭✭✭fancy pigeon


    Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »
    But worth it :D:P:cool:

    Oh I know trust me ;)


  • #10
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    Love my auto, I hate having to drive manual in work...


  • #11
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,946 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    I haven't driven a manual car in over a decade. Could never go back I think but thankfully the Irish distrust/dislike of automatics seems to be dying off and we have great options like the DSG/S-tronic setup in VAG cars.

    But out of passing interest, what's the auto like in the E/CLS Mercedes? I've driven a few of the E's as loaners over the years and they seemed ok, but long term?


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  • #12
    steveshort
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 119 ✭✭steveshort


    Mercedes had used a 5 speed auto on all cars from the late 90s till the mid 00s, these where great transmissions. From late 05 the new 7 speed came into use on the 6 and 8 cylinder engines while the 5 speed continued in the 4 cylinder cars.
    This was phased out in the last few years till all cars where using the 7 speed boxes.
    There is now a new 9 speed box being used in the latest E class and i think S class also.
    The 5 speed where generally very reliable,the early 7 speed had some issues with the valve bodys and some soft ware problems but these have mostly been sorted now.
    As the the 9 speed only time will tell.

    I also dislike manual cars and would per fare autos but the, I currently looking for an auto Mondeo circa 08/09, my wife drives a DSG passat


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