Not around here! I'm not sure what the figures are but I suspect that
most small cars sold are manuals and around half the larger vehicles.
Other Orstralians feel free to comment. I would expect the same
figures for Britain and most of Europe except Italy where an auto
would be considered extremely unmanly! Auto trannies are a murkin
thing. They probably fit them in military Hummers as well.
The auto transmission shops are specialists. When my old beast
decided not to find gears, I simply had it towed to the local
specialist around 15km away as I knew that the local service shops
would just drop the box and send it there anyway. At much higher
cost. Manual box rebuilders are less common now as small cars are
virtual throwaways - they die of other stuff before the gearbox
collapses.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 02/07/2007, at 3:49 PM, Chris Crawford wrote:
> I suspect that fewer shops advertise manual transmission repair simply
> because most cars today are automatics. Also, the mechanics who can
> repair
> automatics also know how to fix manual transmissions.
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