Good Day all,

 

My Octavia needs a new transmission, however, I have come into possession of another vag vehicle with the same engine but a manual gearbox. I would like to know what I need to do to convert my automatic car to manual.

 

 

 

Many thanks,

Peter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is the manual vehicle you have?

The problems are going to  revolve around getting the mechanics to work, new pedal box, hydraulic lines, etc. The clutch for example is hydraulic so will need new lines from the brake system etc. Cost to swap could exceed the value of the car, so might be cheaper to use both cars as scrap and get a manual car to begin with.

Currently operating on mates rates, plus some of my own elbow grease. The donor vehicle is a 1998 vw polo. Both vehicles have the same engine (AEH), and the mounting points appear to be the same. Just need some more info as to the swap. From my first research, everything should be plug and play, and then on the electronics side, there may be a few wires to swap and finally a few bits to change on the ecu coding.