auto gearbox conversion

[Robert Terwilliger]

Re: auto gearbox conversion

Steev -- still waiting for delivery, and I havn't tracked down a gear knob with fully auto switch yet. I have seen your posting, we should keep in touch

[ZorroReturns]

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SMART in Stockton got back to me - £507 total for the job. No itemised list of costs though.

I dont understand why it is soooo expsencive....smart in germany quotes around £280 for the work. before i even haggle!

[Steev]

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Thanks for the response Robert.

I think I was bidding on the one you got but it wasn't me that got it up to that price!

I'll post my progress on here but my Sedrive hasn't arrived yet but it comes with a gear knob! If it does indeed arrive with the gear knob I will have a leather switched gear knob which I could sell for what I paid, £8 + postage.

[microfan]

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Steev

In the post tomorrow & yes you'll get the gearknob!

[Steev]

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Thanks for the confirmation!

[Robert Terwilliger]

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Steev -- I'll have your spare gear knob, price seems fair. Yes I got the sedrive from ebay -- and paid more than I wanted to. However, still less than Smart and I begrudge giving them any money anyway.

[Steev]

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Robert,

You have mail.

[Robert Terwilliger]

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As they say in the news, this story has legs …

I have now fitted the fully-auto SE Drive and gear knob with auto button.

The job turned out to be straight forward, though justrules is right, the security torx bits are essential – the packet they came in refers to mine as ‘TS tamperproof star bit set’, the one you need is TS30. They are a kind of hollow torx bit. One other tip, after spending ten minutes trying to coax the key barrel from the original SE Drive I realised that you need to put the key into it to release it. Doh!

Anyhow, the problem is – fully-auto doesn’t work !

Anyone any suggestions? -- justrules and evolution, your help has been enormous, any ideas? Have I missed something simple? I remember a few posts that say when some jobs had been done on the car you had to un-hook the battery to re-set the computer, could it be something that basic?

Of course it could be a faulty SE Drive – but it came in a Smart bag and shows no sign of ever being fitted. I’m assuming it is the fully auto version as it has the wires running up the gear lever. The knob is pretty basic to have anything go wrong.

I’m really trying to avoid ringing our local dealers, I’m sure I know more about it than they do

BTW it works fine in semi-auto, so the car isn’t off the road.

Any help greatfully received - and if I ever get it to work I promise to update this thread so that others might benefit from my trials and tribulations

[Sam]

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have you tried it without the gearknob (incase its the knob causeing the problem??)

[Robert Terwilliger]

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roadstersam -- you mean just put a screwdriver [or something] across the terminals?

[Sam]

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anything to try it without the gearknob incase this is where the problem is coming from, i have seen post with people having problems with the auto gearknobs

[Robert Terwilliger]

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Took the knob off (ooo errr missus) -- the connection is a simple sprung connector, put a screwdriver across the terminals -- nothing

[Sam]

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sorry i mean press it without the knob on

[Robert Terwilliger]

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sorry matey, poor description -- I pushed the connection [as the button does], and when that didn't work tried by-passing it with the screwdriver across the terminals.

[Sam]

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sorry i havent done the conversion i was thinking about it as i have added a few paddleshifts

hopefully justin will be back on line hes very good with electrical things and a helpfull chap, if hes not i would send him a wee pm