Reliant robin, What transmision do they have?

[jaycey001]

Hi all

 

Just a quick question...

 

Are reliant robins semi auto / full auto or standard manual transmission? I cant find the answere anywhere.

 

Many thanks

 

James

[Shep Shepherd]

As far as I know, they have standard manual transmissions

[face]

I've been in a couple and they were all 4 speed manual jobbies

[barefoot]

...but the run out Rialto thing has a five speed

[trigger]

The one i drove was a 1974 model and that had a 4 speed box that resembled wooden stick in thick custard.

[Angrydicky]

I drove a 1993 Rialto van and it had a four speed manual transmission, so I think you've got the answer now!

[kinkersaab]

I was in one once, i seem to remember that it had a mini/metro type gear knob on it, might have just been an owner addition, or did they use BL boxes? it was one of those with a red coloured R for reverse,

[Angrydicky]

The one I drove certainly had an early Maestro gearknob!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Theyre all 4-speed manuals, I think the 5-speed is an urban myth!!!

 

Super solid gearchange on em.

[messerschmitt owner]

I once drove a rialto van and, at 50mph, when changing gear, the lever parted company with the gearbox. Can't do that with an auto box!

 

Definitely all manuals!

[meggersdog]

you used to have to bolt a steel plate onto the selector to prevent it going in reverse if you drove one on a bike license.I think that law has changed now that some bikes have a reverse gear.

All were four speed manuals IIRC

[Guest]

I drove my mate's 1982 Rialto once and the gear knob and lever parted company with the selector forks coming off the Mancunian Way in the pissing rain.

 

ERGH. Before that it overheated and stopped in a really rancid part of Ardwick.

 

His was a 4 speed and mostly horrid, with the noisiest working diff I've ever heard. I later sold it on his behalf to some 'tard with a bike license wanting a winter car. He tried to get my mate to pay for an engine rebuild when (despite being told about the sump gasket and various other orifices on the engine leaking) he let the oil level drop to zero whilst continually driving it around. The engine then seized one night on the A40 and my mate got an irate call. If I told you he was the least hard of thinking out of the cabbage patch of idiots we had after it, what does that tell you about the average Rialto owner?

 

My favourite eBay question to this day was:

'How do you pump up the front wheel?'

 

[Vin]

you used to have to bolt a steel plate onto the selector to prevent it going in reverse if you drove one on a bike license.I think that law has changed now that some bikes have a reverse gear.

All were four speed manuals IIRC

 

In the 35 years my Grandad ran Reliants - Regals, Robins & a Rialto, they all had reverse gear. He only had a bike licence. He went from Lambretta to Regal van............

[Pete-M]

7 speed paddle shift DSG aren't they?

 

Oh, hang on, no, they've got four speed manual jobs. I always get the Robin and the Veyron confused.

[Negative Creep]

Just how epically shit would an auto version be?

[hennabm]

Quote from 3 wheeler website;

 

"Up until 1963 in the UK only people with a full car licence could have a reverse gear on a 3-wheeler. Motorcyclist licence holders with no car licence had to have the reverse gear disabled if it was fitted. The change of law in 1963 meant that anyone could have a reverse gear on a 3-wheeler."

[CIH]

surely you mean Robin Reliant ? lol etc

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

6 speed dual clutch

[CreepingJesus]

Surely the same 'box as a Minor?

[chaseracer]

I always get the Robin and the Veyron confused.

Easily done. Relieved it's not just me. Tragically, the old Bugatti factory at Tamworth went for housing some years back...