Geartronic

[Banham]

Hi, is there anyone with experience of this gearbox? It looks identical to a normal auto gearbox with the same shift pattern Park, Drive etc, so what makes it a geartronic? It's matted to a D5 in a S60, any comments welcome.
Thanks.

[mondayo]

I have a geartronic in my V70, which is also a D5. It basically is an auto gearbox, but with a tiptronic style function. Mine is a 6 speed and so far seems to be pretty good.
It's party piece is that is doesn't change up unless you make it...it'll just bounce off the rev limiter! It does change down though if you you're going too slow for the gear; or if you stop.

Hope that helps.

[gamefreaks]

Yes, basically it is a vanilla autobox but when in drive, the shifter can be pushed to the left into manual mode. In manual mode, you push forward to go up a gear and pull back to go down a gear. The current gear is displayed in the LCD on the dash instead of P-R-N-D.

Its pretty cool actually and makes 'pressing on' a bit more involving!

[Banham]

Thanks for the answers. It does sound like an option worth having. However, from what you describe, the car I'm looking at is a standard auto, not the geartronic as described. Time to talk to the dealer.......

[Dunk76]

I wouldn't knock yourself out over having Geartronic - it's not an excellent system like Alpina's Switchtronic - and in truth you'll leave it in D for 99.9% of the time.

Even an excellent system like my Alpina B3's was only used rarely.

[dave_s13]

I'm picking up a 2002 V70 D5 auto on saturday and that's just a boggo auto.

But, I've had 2 BMW E39'd previously, both whatevertronic. Used the manual thing about 3 times in total so wildly overrated really. Still nice to have the feature I suppose but wouldn't pay more for it.

Edited by dave_s13 on Monday 5th April 20:48

[Skodaku]

gamefreaks said:

Yes, basically it is a vanilla autobox but when in drive, the shifter can be pushed to the left into manual mode. In manual mode, you push forward to go up a gear and pull back to go down a gear. The current gear is displayed in the LCD on the dash instead of P-R-N-D.

Its pretty cool actually and makes 'pressing on' a bit more involving!

I have a '06 S60 D5 with the 6-spd Geartronic. Really nice drive but the novelty of the "do it yourself' feature wore off fairly quickly and now the lever only gets pushed to the left for the occasional play. I think the older 'boxes were 5-spd ZF units and can tend to "hunt" a bit................but I have no personal experience just a comment from a friend with an older C70 auto, so could be wholly inaccurate.

[Mr_Sukebe]

I have a geartronic 5 speed in my 2005 S60 D5. I did test in whilst first checking the vehicle, but can't see me ever using it. For one thing, the car is more of a "relaxed cruiser" than most, so suits a more laid back and thus fully automatic mode.

[markreilly]

Dunk76 said:

I wouldn't knock yourself out over having Geartronic - it's not an excellent system like Alpina's Switchtronic - and in truth you'll leave it in D for 99.9% of the time.

Even an excellent system like my Alpina B3's was only used rarely.

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