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When you take apart and look inside a gearbox, you will find a huge assortment of parts in a fairly small space. Among other things, you see :
What’s in an automatic gearbox
- An ingenious planetary gear set
- A set of bands to lock parts of a gear set
- A set of three wet-plates clutches to lock other parts of the gear set
- An incredibly odd hydraulic system that controls the clutches and bands
- A large gear pump to move gearbox fluid around
Manual gearboxes you will find a lay shaft, collar and folks.
Manumatic gearboxes Manumatic is a portmanteau word, combining the words manual and automatic, that applies to a class of automotive gearboxes. Manumatic most often refers to an automatic transmission; with some elements of manual transmission control (e.g. a gear can be manually selected instead of having the computer control all shifts). This type of transmission was introduced in the beginning of the 21st century. Different car manufacturers have been using a variety of labels for their manumatic transmissions, such as ‘tiptronic’, ‘Geartronic’, ‘Touchshift’, ‘Sporttronic’, and others.
Audi A8 has a six-speed tiptronic automatic gearbox, it channels power effortlessly through the quattro system, shifting smoothly and efficiently. Speed grows steadily as the big car is propelled by the potent unit, and road noise is kept to a bare minimum.
As you can see gearboxes including A8 gearbox is a complicated car part necessity for your car to function. Our breakers shop around for the best deals on any A8 gearbox part – so you don’t have to do all the hard work.
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Looking after your A8 Gearboxes
Changing the gearbox fluid and filter is probably the most important service that you can perform on your A8. The gearbox has metallic wear components. Once these wear, the filter clogs up and the oil is degraded over time. This starves the hydraulic pump of oil, especially on cold start ups and causes the pump to cavitate. This is the squealing noise that can be heard. This can cause long term damage to the gearbox.
Audi states the automatic gearbox fluid is a lifetime fluid. This is not true. It is recommended to change the fluid and filter every 25,000 to 40,000 miles this can save alot of money in the long run.
A8 features
The six-speed gearbox is in charge of relaying the engines power comes from ZF, which, supplies the same gearbox for the 7-Series and Jaguar XJ. While the unit may be the same, the operation is different in each vehicle: unlike the BMW column-mounted shifter that features manual-mode buttons on the steering wheel, or Jaguars traditional J-gate, the Audi gearbox features Tiptronic manual mode, which can be operated through the gear lever or by a set of paddles, the latter a new addition for 2005. Just a fingers tug is all it takes to swap gears, and it does so in a completely seamless manner.
A Gearbox’s primary job
Just like that of a manual gearbox, the automatic gearbox’s primary job is to allow the engine to operate in its narrow range of speeds while providing a wide range of output speeds.
Without a gearbox, cars would be limited to one gear ratio, and that ratio would have to be selected to allow the car to travel at the desired top speed. If you wanted a top speed of 80 mph, then the gear ratio would be similar to third gear in most manual gearbox cars.
You’ve probably never tried driving a manual gearbox car using only third gear. If you did, you’d quickly find out that you had almost no acceleration when starting out, and at high speeds, the engine would be screaming along near the red-line. A car like this would wear out very quickly and would be nearly undriveable.
The key difference between a manual and an automatic gearbox is that the manual gearbox locks and unlocks different sets of gears to the output shaft to achieve the various gear ratios, while in an automatic gearbox; the same set of gears produces all of the different gear ratios. The planetary gear set is the device that makes this possible in an automatic gearbox.
An Audi gearbox has become more reliable these days, but still as in all gearboxes it’s the most-easiest-to-break and very-expensive-to-fix part of the vehicle. If heavily abused, the gearbox can be easily destroyed within just half an hour. Any gearbox is very sensitive to the gearbox fluid quality and condition. Improper fluid type can damage the gearbox. When buying a used car, a gearbox is one of the most important parts to check.
When buying a used car, the gearbox is one of the most important parts to check. We strongly recommend having a used car inspected by a mechanic before buying it, it will well worth it. When buying a used car first checks the used car history records; it may save you some time and money. If the used car history report shows that the car you want to buy was used as a rental vehicle or has been involved in an accident, there is no point to even look at it. Ask the previous owner or salesperson if any repair has been done to the gearbox. If the gearbox is already rebuilt, try to avoid buying such a car. It’s not like all rebuilt gearbox will have problems – some of them work even better than before. The problem is that not all gearbox shops can do equally the same high-quality job. And since there is no way to verify if it was rebuilt properly or not, it’s better not to take chances. Another thing to be concern about, ask if the car you are looking for was used for towing a trailer. Gearboxes wear out quicker in many cars that were used for towing a trailer.
If your car gearbox is worn out or won’t go smoothly then you may need to replace it, call telephone support line on 0905 232 0099 for your gearbox part or check it out on our simple ‘Quick Find’.
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