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Joint efforts of Opel and Luk engineers led to development of the automated Easytronic gearbox which combines advantages of manual and automatic transmissions. In this article, we will consider design peculiarities, operating modes, pros and cons, typical problems of the Easytronic transmission and tips on how to prolong its service life.

Tiptronic is a trade name of the manual gear shifting function (mode), which is implemented in the automatic transmissions. In the world of the automobile industry the name Tiptronic is used to define automatic transmissions of a specific design and control method regardless of the actual developer and producer of the transmission.

Recently, it has been revealed that PSA Group reached an agreement with Aisin AW to manufacture the EAT6 gearbox in France. Until recently, this transmission was produced by Aisin and imported from Japan, but the growing popularity of automatic gearboxes spurred PSA into action.