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Originally Posted by hybris
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Originally Posted by Efthreeoh
10+ cars and 1.4M miles is not anecdotal evidence.
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It indicates that manuals are probably reliable, you're one broken down auto is anecdotal. I have the opposite experience with BMW - several autos that didn't break and one manual that did break.. So I'm just saying the one that broke down doesn't necessarily "prove" that one is more reliable than the other.
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Originally Posted by 10"
Can you expand on what broke? It's very rare for a manual gearbox to break. If it does it's usually driver error, sorry to say.
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Syncro problems / worn down syncro rings, they had to rebuild the transmission. I've had a bunch of manual cars (I live in Norway where up until recently manual has been the norm, not the other way around), so I'm reasonably confident that I didn't break it - may have been the previous owner for all I know, or some kind of problem from the factory / lemon. |
Worn down syncro at 24k miles??
Sounds like the previous owner had no clue how to drive a manual gearbox. 100% user error at play here.
Manual gearboxes, in general, are far far more reliable than automatic ones.