Hi, It in order to minimise car costs, I have always bought six or seven year old corollas and run them to their end.
I have never bought automatic gearboxes in the past, because of their limited life. How would they be these days though on say on a six year old corolla?
Would they do 100,000 miles generally or not? Would there be other costs that I would get with an auto that I would not get with a manual box. Thanking You.
No mechanical component has an unlimited life.
Can't help you with that one. Certain makers - Ford and Renault - seem to have problems with their own brand autos. Upmarket Fords - Jags and Land Rover etc - use autos from other makers, ZF etc.
The life of a decent auto tends to be more like 200,000 miles if I was to pull a figure from a hat. M-B autos seem to go on for ever.
Of course, many manuals will have been through a few clutches by then - and have worn synchromesh.
As regards the Corolla box - do a search on JD Power etc and see what they say.
I don't know why you think auto boxes don't last as long as manuals. I've owned 4 automatics, each of which did more than 100,000 trouble-free miles before the car was sold on. The 4 manual cars I've owned have all had new clutches, clutch master-cylinders, slave cylinders, buggered-up second gears, crunchy synchros etc, etc.
Another Dave
My last four cars have been autos (I wouldn't touch a manual with a barge-pole - all that left-leg pumping and silly stick twirling!) and although I haven't achieved very high mileage with any of them before moving on, I can say that I haven't had a single problem with the auto-boxes either. In my opinion you're far more likely to have trouble with clutches, slave cylinders, whining gears,metc with a manual than any sort of problem with a modern auto box.
Kev
Yup. Neither Ford or Renault appear to be able to make autos that last - which makes you wonder why they even tried.
But other makers manage OK.
I gather from an auto box specialist that Renault have started fitting third party (Borg Warner) auto gearboxes to their newer cars
Not before time, then.
Ford, of course, don't use their own boxes on their upmarket ranges - Jaguar and Land Rover, etc.
I hotly defend my standard of manual gear-changing :-)
It's more likely because most of the autos were Volvos and two of the manuals were Fiats!
Another Dave
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That's a bit harsh. Looked after they should last almost for ever. I've seen a Toyota 2-speed unit (yes, really 2-speed!) going strong after 10 years and over 200,000 miles.
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