How can I tell if my car is auto or manual. It has no engine or tranny but how can I tell what it use to be? It has a clutch pedal that looks factory but then it had an EAT which I thought was the auto tranny computer.

Is there a way I can tell?

 

perhaps a conversion in process...

what make/model... some verts had cruise control boxs next to the ECU that people confuse with a EAT controller

 

its an 89 but I dont know the model. its 4lug so I guess its the lowest model. the clutch and all looks so factory but so did the EAT in its place. is there a way to check with the vin number or anything?

 

If it is a 4-lug, then its not an '89.

 

cant check through the vin sorry

 

You don't have the VIN??? its stamped right on the firewall next to the wiper motor

 

Is this some kinda troll???

You know what an auto trans computer is but you have no idea if your car is automatic trans or not???

AND, you can't find the VIN???



-Ted

 

He's wondering if his car was originally an automatic that was converted (maybe poorly or halfway converted) to five-speed. He doesn't have an engine or transmission in the car, so he definitely can't tell by that way. Also, he didn't ask where he could find the VIN, he was asking if there was a letter or number within the VIN that would tell him if it was originally automatic or what.

 

sounds fishy..

 

Well he says he has a 89 but most clearlly does not if it has 4 lug wheels, so the next step is to determin what the VIN is and determin the year.

since he said he either does not know where it is, or does not have the car.

 

I thought that wasn't the thread starter, just someone saying, "sorry, you can't check to see if it's a manual or auto through the VIN number."?

 

lol, cant he just look and see if he's got a clutch pedal?

 

YEA the guy who said "cant check the VIN sorry" wasnt the guy who asked the original question

 

^ is right I have the vin number I was just wondering if there was a way to check it through that. Did 89's not come 4 lug?

 

carfax says its an 89

 

is it a s5 or s4?

 

yeah??? okay what is the first 10 digits of the VIN?

 

Unless the cluster was removed it should have P R N D 1 2 shouldn't it with a big HOLD above the letters of the gears.

 

My car is an 86 used to be auto I made it a stick and the cluster has none of those I never changed it and the guy who owned it before me never did either. So I dont think you can go by that.

 

No the auto's don't have the gear listing in the gauge.

 

Who cares! Just put a manual in it anyway

 

it being 4 lug doesnt mean much, it could have been swapped. It sounds like the car has been torn apart in the past, maybe it was stripped for it's 5 lug suspension and the good car donated it's 4 lug after the 5 lug was swaped in?

 

S5's do

 

Hmm really wierd, post that vin number!!!! Your car has many contradicting items. Is there anything that tells the gear ratio on the outside of the rear? if its a 4.10 then that really wouldn't help usd out but if it's got a 3.90 it most likely started as an auto, althou i do have a 3.90 in my 5 speed since it was all i could find at the time. take some pics for us of the EAT and clutch pedal, slave cylinder and of course VIN number. Also was an auto availible on 4 lugs? i could be wrong but i thought it was only availible in higher 5 lug models

 

can't you just look at the transmission mount @ the bottom of the car, iirc the auto and manuals have different mount points, so a conversion has something fabricated there.