What 4th gen transmission have you personally broken yourself?
You can vote multiple times in case you have broken both AT and MT, or more than 3 of each.

 

You should add NONE to the list or NONE YET...

 

If you haven't then don't vote. The idea is to see which trans is more failure prone.

 

I think the M/T will win simply because it just has more parts that are failure prone. That and the 4AT is better

 

I think the M/T will win because the majority of this forum drives a manual even though the rareness in them. I would imagine that some really can't count being the complete cause at breaking their 1st transmission...these things are over 10 years old, have tons of miles and the age is getting the best of them.

 

The playing field is level. The at and MT trannies will be the same age with the same potential maintenance (or lack thereof).
With everything being equal, the question is which is more resilient.

 

 

As far as I know I am one of the few people on this forum who likes the 4AT and have built it up to what I think is a pretty good level of performance. With the same mods a friend of mine's 4AT handled over 400whp. It always gets hated on and sometimes for good reason but it is not a bad transmission at all. Add on a higher stall torque converter and its great for the strip trust me but by far my favorite is the Phantom LSD conversion. Helps a ton out of the corners

When it was out being worked on over the course of a few saturdays at my friends shop:

 

I didnt actually "break" my old MT. The differential seals were eaten up and leaking, but it still shifted fine. I had just decided to get another because i was able to find one cheap and in good condition.

 

The good thing about both is they are cheap but they are strong. Nobody is going to say its the best trans for performance but for not that much money, assuming you can do most of the work yourself, you can make it into something pretty decent

 

And I still drove it home while it was bleeding to death.

 

lol that would have been a sight to drive behind. "You think he knows his car is bleeding honey?"

 

You wouldn't have seen me because I got lucky and all the lights were green and I figured get it up to TQ lockup and I drove like that for a couple miles home. No slowing down or speeding up just constant speed as fast as I could go with lowest rpm which is about 40mph. Then I found, bought, and fixed everything in two days with basic hand tools. If there's a will, there's a way.

 

As of this post
7 AT Vs 9 MT

 

Looks like someone was doing dogleg burnouts and wore their diff pin in half. That would have happened regardless of the trans type. Did you buy this transmission from Travis Cadello?

 

Hahahahahahhahahah! King of dislikes on YouTube. Lol

 

My original 4at was still holding strong with no issues, seemed like it could have made it to 300k without a sweat.

 

I just swapped from 4AT to 5 speed.
Mine had 180,000+ and had no problems, ever.
I did keep up on fluid changes though..

 

I am still on my original tranny approaching 325K and I floor the hell out of that thing and it is fine. Just replaced the screen this summer because a quarter of it was filled with metal shavings and I did not want to wash out. Just replaced with OEM and filled with OEM Matic D and it shifts slightly better that it did going from 1st to 2nd which is what all the tranny has issues with.