Thread: Transmission Reliability

You don't have a choice - it's a ZF 5HP24 5 speed gearbox.

I thought there were differences in the earlier models aka -

Transmission automatic
5-speed (2002–2005)
6-speed (2006–2012)

2006 - 2012 is early?

2006 to 2008 is in my book hence my original question.

What is referred to as an “early L322” - most would think of it as the BMW based models. Yeah I agree 2006 and after is not early.

The early V8 has a 5 speed.

2008 is not what most would consider early, completely different price bracket and completely different car under the covers. If you take statistical numbers of issues than the 6 speed in the mid to late models is more reliable just don't look at mileage.

Architecturally the 6 speed is a more reliable construction, it has something like 20-25% fewer parts and was a revolution in design. It needs a new pan as part of its first service which is a bit of $, but it makes it easy to see which ones are getting serviced. The filter is integrated into the pan and the new pan has a replaceable filter - that was not part of the inventors design....

It seems we have different and unresolvable semantic perspectives on what the term 'early' means.

harlie - thanks for the technical advice.

Seeing as the L322 finished in 2012, you can hardly call 2006 - 2012 models 'early'

Scouse if you refer back to one of my earlier posts here I quantified my 'early' for you as being up to 2008.

Regardless as to whether my time line classification offends your sensibilities or not I can classify any time period I like as 'early'