Trip-tronic Gears..

[V8EAT3R]

Hey guys,

i don't have the skyline yet.

coming from overseas

and the r34 is going to be a 2door Trip tronic gear skyline

i know can change the gears without a clutch

but can i just say "ok skyline i dont want to change ears manually just change them for me" ??

cheers

[Dicer]

Yes it is an automatic which you can set in tiptronic mode. Gear changes can be selected from the shift lever or from the buttons on the steering wheel.

[V8EAT3R]

ahk cool..

so when select that i dnt even have to touch the gears. theyll just change automatically without me doing anything? (:

and is that all skylines??

cheers

[noely1]

it has the normal P R N D 3 2 pattern... whilst in drive u can flick the gear knob over to the left hand side into a different slot and u push the knob downward to go up a gear and upwards to go down a gear ( i think.. i have a manual R34 skyline may be the other way round but im pretty sure thats right )

and no its only the V35 and R34 skylines that have the tiptronic mode in the autos.. all others (31, 32, 33 etc models) have the normal gear shifter as any other auto car has...

Edited March 20, 2010 by noely1

[V8EAT3R]

yeh first part is right,

first post was bit more helpful and sounded more realistic . umm yeh,

should be fine, i guess i can always call up my local nissan workshop

thanks for the help (: just gota clear that up

and im gettng a r34.

[Silver_GT]

theres not much to understand mate, its a standard automatic car. simple as that, you can select Drive and off you go.

only difference is, if you feel like it, you can select a mode in which you tell the auto when to change gears rather than the computer doing it for you.

[V8EAT3R]

thanks guys for all your help!!

and silver GT

you're a superstar!

[R34mac]

Tiptronic isn't really that flash - my R34 was tiptronic for the first 3 years I owned it. They're good gearboxes but as Silver GT said above, they're essentially just a standard automatic slushbox. It'll jump down to 3rd gear fairly quickly and you have to apply more throttle to get it to kick back a gear. Over 60kph it'll slip into 4th and stay there, unless you knock the lever across into tiptronic. Upwards changes up a gear and down changes down. It also won't let you change into 4th below 60kph until the engine has warmed up.

I ended up having mine converted to manual because it seems to suit the car much better.. mainly for the gear ratios. The auto 1st gear is pretty short - letting you take off pretty quickly, but then second gear is quite tall so the revs really drop quite a lot during the change. The manual ratios are much nicer and makes the car feel a lot quicker.

[R34mac]

If you're interested, here's a comparison between gear ratios... manual vs automatic.

(The higher the number, the higher the gear ratio (shorter the gear)

..... M..........A

1) 3.214 - 2.785

2) 1.925 - 1.545

3) 1.302 - 1.000

4) 1.000 - 0.694

5) 0.752

First gear on the auto is about half way between 1st and 2nd on the manual box.

Second gear is about half way between 2nd and 3rd on the manual box.

Third gear is equal to 4th gear on the manual box.

Fourth gear is actually a lower ratio than 5th on the manual box - for good highway economy.

Less gears means a larger jump between ratios.. hope this all makes sense

Edited March 21, 2010 by R34mac