Converting from manual gearbox to automatic?

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Fiat 2.3L engine. Anyone got any idea as to how practical this might be and the costs? The build was 2015.
 
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On older fiats it was different crank, bell housing/ engine end plate and the body needed some severe dressing to get the auto box into the tunnel, good luck, think you might have to mess with wiring looms and inhibitor switch so it doesnt start in gear
 
I'd be swapping vehicles I'm afraid ...

Even swapping a manual rear wheel drive to auto can be problematic ...

Possibly swapping a full engine gearbox from manual to auto would be achievable IF you had the full vehicles side by side ...
So many little fiddly bits to deal with let alone the big bits .

Big fat nope from me I'm afraid
 
Have a look at controls for automating your clutch if that’s the problem/reason you are after an auto. I don’t recall the name of the company I last looked at but there are, (or were) a few that did modifications to add a lever or button on the gear stick that worked the clutch for you. Look at mobility specialists or maybe racing equipment people to see options.

It won’t be cheap I expect these days but will be cheaper than difference between a manual and auto gearbox. Bear in mind the modification may increase insurance although that was all supposed to stop when they brought the disability discrimination bill in.
 
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Have a look at controls for automating your clutch if that’s the problem/reason you are after an auto. I don’t recall the name of the company I last looked at but there are, (or were) a few that did modifications to add a lever or button on the gear stick that worked the clutch for you. Look at mobility specialists or maybe racing equipment people to see options.

It won’t be cheap I expect these days but will be cheaper than difference between a manual and auto gearbox. Bear in mind the modification may increase insurance although that was all supposed to stop when they brought the disability discrimination bill in.
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Vehvac in edenbridge did my AA van and also our new rapido when we bought that
 
When I decided I wanted an automatic motorhome, I didn't want a 'new' one with either the rubbish Fiat Robotised Manual (that's Fiat's own description) or the complex new DSG. I thought back to years gone by and figured that the only auto boxes with a mechanical torque converter would have been Mercedes and Ford. Searching I found a Transit automatic on an AutoSleeper Pollensa which has exactly the interior layout we love so I went out and bought it. £14,000 which in truth is £1,000 less than it would have cost just to swap one nearly-new motorhome for another virtually identical motorhome. I could explain here, but that would go off topic. The dealer wanted £15,000 to swap one Chausson for a virtually identical Chausson - same year ( two years old), same size, same windscreen price. Just a different model number with a different layout inside. Same dealer. One month after buying the first one.
What I did was to buy the £14,000 Transit and I am and will continue spending time, and not a lot of money, restoring it - although it did work OK when I got it, it was a do-er-upper, not a non runner. I will cover the whole costs of doing it up by writing articles for MMM to publish.

So that is what I did in your situation Borders2.
 
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