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Of course you dont have to be mechanically competent to comment on what you think about the influx of this different option for transmission choice in cars in Malawi . In the early 90s it used to be quite simple, we just shifted gears manually to drive and did just that and only a few big trucks had the electronic power shift gears (ie.Press Transport). Now we are talking of a blossoming number of automatic transmission gearbox in small cars as well and this has eventually caused a lot of sleepless nights to potential buyers within our circles especially in Diaspora bombarded with a choice that has even the nuttiest of car nuts in a spinIts about auto or manual.

 

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In my opinion manual transmission are better than the autos. The mentality I have for these Autos is that (1) they are abit expensive to repair when the gearbox has malfunctioned  (2) Most mechanics in Malawi can hardly repair the auto gearbox as compared to the manual one, and if they can it would cost dearly. The auto gearbox is very complicated!! hmm

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We should talk of moving with the times, honestly these manual transmission vehicle are surely going out. The company i work for has a fleet of trucks and guess what 95% of them are electronic transmission and its not a hassle to repair them simply buy the latest software and have the right guys trained to do the job osati a chief engineer going to Alemagne alone and hope to teach the garage supervisor and all the guys how to fix these machines but they are not a problem and most vehicles on the roads of Malawi are automatic transmission. Dada Ngwazi they are no longer expensive to maintain (when did u leave MW) kale lija zinali zochepa hence the lack of expertise i knew a mechanic from Ntandire (RIP) who could change an auto into a manual but now its free for all.
Now you guys in diaspora hear this: There is this lady who has brought a very nice Jeep wrangler and advertised in the paper that it can be hired especially for weddings and guess where i saw it being maintained? Ku cholomoni kwa Nthukwa. So when it starts giving problems will you say its the car or her choice of wher to take it to.

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Bingiza

Surely, I am wrong in my assumptions then. I still got that mentality that autos are hard to fix in Malawi. 12yrs it has been.weirdface



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Autos might be hard depending on how the car has been handled,infact am contemplating to buy an auto car this year for some reasons,too much cues,fuel usage is low on autos and a luxualy when driving..no hussles.

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Game on Pope its the next best thing.

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i'll try to be as brief as possible thus some facts will be left out. as far as ease of driving is concerned, the automatic/semi-automatic excells in this category thus making it a good choice for proffessional drivers or people who spend too much time in traffic. it is good for learners as well and i personally refer to it as 'rev and go'. on the economy front it is a bit tricky since we have maintainance costs and fuel economy. a manual transmission will require regular maintainance according to the style of driving/experience. too much balancing pa chitunda will shorten the life span of the clutch mechanism. automatic transmission you only change the oil once then you are set for life, you just need to top up. most mechanics can fix a manual transmission while an automatic requires knowledge on that particular transmission and the new ones need dedicated diagonostic software and hardware with someone who knows how to operate the equip. as well.As for fuel economy it depends whether you have a heavy foot or not on both types.

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It all comes down to how much one is willing to spend on repairing their transmission,a manual trans is commom and less expensive to repair and it is almost trouble free if some one is knows how to use it properly.On the other hand an Automatic trans is very convinient to most drivers and most of them are maintenance free but when they develop a problem and you try to be cheap about repairing them then you are in for it...Its as simple as that $$Money! If I have a BMW with automatic trans and the trans goes out I ain't gonna take it to just any other repair shop,I am gonna take it to a BMW Dealership like,
City Motors in Malawi,because they have got trainned mechanics who know the principle of that particular trans,dealership mechanics are factory trainned every year all over the world to keep up with technology....some of this stuff is just common sense.

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Studa wrote:

.As for fuel economy it depends whether you have a heavy foot or not on both types.




what do you mean?weight or pressure of the foot?



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By Malawian stds a few can afford to maintain auto cars thats why up to
now manual cars are expensive than auto even thou they are good and
they are now dominating on the market.

Even Malawian automatic ladies akuchuluka than a manual

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Pope wrote:

what do you mean?weight or pressure of the foot?



I think he meant it as a figure of speech, i.e. heavy as in clumsy control, not  'heavy' in its literal sense.



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Am sceptical with the heavy foot thing.

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Pope wrote:

Am sceptical with the heavy foot thing.




Maybe he meant that the more u  ponda the accelerator pedal
with the heavy foot the more fuel u burn



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Atame wrote:

Maybe he meant that the more u  ponda the accelerator pedal
with the heavy foot the more fuel u burn




you might be right, but why is he gone missing without an answer.The way he had put it you would say kulemera kwa phazi or kapondedwe ka phazi kukhalitsapo pa pedal.Anyway we assume.




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i'm back on the scene, we had a bank holiday and i took a little break.
to answer pope's question, by heavy footed it means anthu amene amakonda kuyendera ma high-revs. (kubangulitsa galimoto) anything over 4000rpm irrespective of the gear you are in.

-- Edited by Studa at 14:14, 2007-05-08

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Atame wrote:

By Malawian stds a few can afford to maintain auto cars thats why up to
now manual cars are expensive than auto even thou they are good and
they are now dominating on the market.

Even Malawian automatic ladies akuchuluka than a manual





Kodi nkutero Atame

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Studa wrote:

i'm back on the scene, we had a bank holiday and i took a little break.
to answer pope's question, by heavy footed it means anthu amene amakonda kuyendera ma high-revs. (kubangulitsa galimoto) anything over 4000rpm irrespective of the gear you are in.




thanks for the info



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Tango wrote:

Kodi nkutero Atame

Eya dzoterotu u only have to  push the pedal and  (she) the car will do lest
koma ndiye kuti zakayisala zilowazambiri



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Atame wrote:

Tango wrote:

Kodi nkutero Atame

Eya dzoterotu u only have to  push the pedal and  (she) the car will do lest
koma ndiye kuti zakayisala zilowazambiri



You've really made my day Atame. Just push the pedal, the rest will be done the other end. Do you mean ya manual zakayesalala sizilowa zambiri? Mwinanso za mahara? Ha! Ha! Ha!



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Tango wrote:
You've really made my day Atame. Just push the pedal, the rest will be done the other end. Do you mean ya manual zakayesalala sizilowa zambiri? Mwinanso za mahara? Ha! Ha! Ha!



Manual sizilowa zambiri No computer box, so maintenance siivuta
u can even use used oil from another car siinga nokole
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and enrty from the back is not allowed ( Isaaa ndiye zochosa ulemutu)



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sorry to be a spoil of sport but for clarification purposes amanual transmission car also has a computer box for engine management ecu. this is found in all petrol cars that have electronically controlled fuel injection efi. i.e single point or multipoint injection plus it is also found in the latest diesel engines that feature the commonrail diesel injection cdi or high-pressure diesel injection hdi and their variants regardless of transmission type.

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How do you justfy the fact that today within the auto transmission gearbox cars we have manual and auto !?

And again following the discussion , how complicated is the auto gearbox compared to repairing a crocked computer box in respect to a car imported home?

-- Edited by eetchef at 02:22, 2007-05-09

-- Edited by eetchef at 02:26, 2007-05-09

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somebody misiformed you. there is no such thing as manual in auto. there is only semi-automatic where the driver is required to tell the automatic gearbox to change gear up or down through controls on the stearing wheel or little movements of the gear lever. note that the actual gearchanging is done automatically by the gearbox and there is no manual declutching.

i can not comprehed your second question, all i can say is all cars in malawi are imported. sitimapanga njale zathu.

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