Hi Folks,
Recently bought the above car and after a lot of years with automatics I
find the gearbox a bit slow to change up.  It is more obvious when
accelerating hard and then releasing the gas pedal.  It seems to stay in
the lower gear that was used to accelerate for longer.  Anyone out there
got experience with the Renault gearbox.
Regads,
Dougie

Douglas Ross Leitch  wrote:


> Hi Folks,
> Recently bought the above car and after a lot of years with automatics I
> find the gearbox a bit slow to change up.  It is more obvious when
> accelerating hard and then releasing the gas pedal.  It seems to stay in
> the lower gear that was used to accelerate for longer.  Anyone out there
> got experience with the Renault gearbox.


I thought it was common knowledge that French autoboxes were shite?
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Douglas Ross Leitch wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> Recently bought the above car and after a lot of years with automatics I
> find the gearbox a bit slow to change up.  It is more obvious when
> accelerating hard and then releasing the gas pedal.  It seems to stay in
> the lower gear that was used to accelerate for longer.  Anyone out there
> got experience with the Renault gearbox.
> Regads,
> Dougie

Is there any mode switch at all - e.g. could it be in sport mode?

Biggles

"Douglas Ross Leitch"  wrote in message
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> Hi Folks,
> Recently bought the above car and after a lot of years with automatics I
> find the gearbox a bit slow to change up.  It is more obvious when
> accelerating hard and then releasing the gas pedal.  It seems to stay in
> the lower gear that was used to accelerate for longer.  Anyone out there
> got experience with the Renault gearbox.


Yes, sell the bloody thing tomorrow.

Renault autos especially are worse than Bush in a hurricane.

Tim..

I have just sold a Kangoo that had a Pro-Active 'fuzzy logic' auto box,
I had problems with this not changing up when I was going up hills,
even when I backed right off of the throttle, it seems like this is how
they operate.

McDerd

SteveH wrote:

> Douglas Ross Leitch  wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi Folks,
>>Recently bought the above car and after a lot of years with automatics I
>>find the gearbox a bit slow to change up.  It is more obvious when
>>accelerating hard and then releasing the gas pedal.  It seems to stay in
>>the lower gear that was used to accelerate for longer.  Anyone out there
>>got experience with the Renault gearbox.
> 
> 
> I thought it was common knowledge that French autoboxes were shite?


There was wrong with the autobox in my Vauxhall Carlton, and it was made 
in France.

I think it's specifically renault 'boxes.  (c:

Douglas

"Tim.."  wrote in message
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>
> "Douglas Ross Leitch"  wrote in message
> news:2005091018184481519@zetnet.co.uk...
> > Hi Folks,
> > Recently bought the above car and after a lot of years with automatics I
> > find the gearbox a bit slow to change up.  It is more obvious when
> > accelerating hard and then releasing the gas pedal.  It seems to stay in
> > the lower gear that was used to accelerate for longer.  Anyone out there
> > got experience with the Renault gearbox.
>
> Yes, sell the bloody thing tomorrow.
>
> Renault autos especially are worse than Bush in a hurricane.
>
> Tim..


After involvement with a friends Clio autobox I'm tempted to agree, however
the autobox in father in laws 98R Safrane has been faultless in 135,000
miles. Renault obviously make a decent one occasionally just for the hell of
it!

"Doctor D"  wrote in message
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>
> <snip> however
> the autobox in father in laws 98R Safrane has been faultless in 135,000
> miles. Renault obviously make a decent one occasionally just for the hell
of
> it!


Is it definitely a Renault autobox in the Safrane? ;-)

I know that some (the 2.5s) use the Volvo engine, I'm wondering whether they
used the same autobox that Volvo do (Aisin Warner AW50-42LE)?

Douglas Hall (@) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
 

> Is it definitely a Renault autobox in the Safrane? ;-)
>
> I know that some (the 2.5s) use the Volvo engine,


The Douvrin v6 is as much a Renault or Peugeot engine as it is a Volvo one 
- possibly more so, since the joint venture that designed and built it is 
in France...


> I'm wondering whether they used the same autobox that Volvo do (Aisin 
> Warner AW50-42LE)? 


Unlikely, since the Safrane's FWD and the Volvos that used it were all RWD.

"Adrian"  wrote in message
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> Douglas Hall (@) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
>
> > Is it definitely a Renault autobox in the Safrane? ;-)
> >
> > I know that some (the 2.5s) use the Volvo engine,
>
> The Douvrin v6 is as much a Renault or Peugeot engine as it is a Volvo one
> - possibly more so, since the joint venture that designed and built it is
> in France...


No no, some of the series II Safranes used the 5 cylinder transverse 2.5 20v
engine straight from Volvo. i've yet to see one though.

Tim..

Tim.. (the.farm.hates.spam@btinternet.com) gurgled happily, sounding
much like they were saying : 


>> > Is it definitely a Renault autobox in the Safrane? ;-)

>> > I know that some (the 2.5s) use the Volvo engine,

>> The Douvrin v6 is as much a Renault or Peugeot engine as it is a
>> Volvo one - possibly more so, since the joint venture that designed
>> and built it is in France...

> No no, some of the series II Safranes used the 5 cylinder transverse
> 2.5 20v engine straight from Volvo. i've yet to see one though.


Blimey O'Reilly...

They probably sold about three. Worldwide.

"Adrian"  wrote in message
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> Douglas Hall (@) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
>
> > Is it definitely a Renault autobox in the Safrane? ;-)
> >
> > I know that some (the 2.5s) use the Volvo engine,
>
> The Douvrin v6 is as much a Renault or Peugeot engine as it is a Volvo one
> - possibly more so, since the joint venture that designed and built it is
> in France...


I thought the 2.5 used in the Safrane was an _I5_ not a V6?


> > I'm wondering whether they used the same autobox that Volvo do (Aisin
> > Warner AW50-42LE)?
>
> Unlikely, since the Safrane's FWD and the Volvos that used it were all

RWD.

No they weren't.

The AW50-42LE transmission is for front wheel drive cars. 850s onwards were
FWD (with the odd exception of some AWD models). All the 70 series onwards
were / are FWD, including the 60 series and the 80 series.

The last RWD Volvos were the 90 series, which were really just facelifted
900 series. And they used different transmissions.