Renault Gearboxes For Sale
Renault has sold five different kinds of gearbox here under one badge. Working out which one is in your car is most of the job.
Used and reconditioned units, identified from your VIN before we quote.
- Matched to your VIN
- Terms set on the quote
- Collection or courier
Checked, not just shifted
Used units get inspected before they are offered to you, and anything reconditioned has had the work done and documented.
Terms in writing
Cover varies by unit and by condition, so we set it out on the quote rather than making a blanket promise on a web page.
Collect it or have it sent
Collection is from our Briardene counter in Durban North. If you would rather it came to you, say where you are and the carriage goes on the quote before you commit to anything.
The Renault gearboxes on South African cars
"Renault automatic" describes four unrelated machines. Find yours below, or send the VIN and we will identify it for you.
Five-speed manual
5-spd manual
- The default across most of the range, and the only box the Clio V was offered with locally
- No automatic was ever offered on the SA Clio V — a listing that says otherwise is not a local car
- The most straightforward of the five to source and to fit
Priced against your VIN, because two of these that look identical often are not.
Easy-R automated manual
Easy-R AMT
- cars.co.za describes it as a conventional five-speed manual with hydraulic actuators added
- So an Easy-R car carries actuator and clutch-control hardware a manual simply does not have
- The tailgate badge does not distinguish the two — check for a clutch pedal
Priced against your VIN, because two of these that look identical often are not.
CVT
CVT
- On the Kiger a CVT only ever came behind the turbo engine, never the naturally aspirated one
- So "Kiger automatic" means two entirely different transmissions depending on the car
- Mechanically it has nothing in common with the Easy-R fitted to the other Kiger
Priced against your VIN, because two of these that look identical often are not.
Six-speed EDC dual-clutch
6-spd EDC
- A dual-clutch automatic, not a torque converter — they fail differently and cost differently
- cars.co.za records "several instances of EDC faults and outright failures" on the Captur
- Same guide reports low-speed hesitancy, the box hunting for a gear as the driver wanted to go
Priced against your VIN, because two of these that look identical often are not.
Seven-speed EDC dual-clutch
7-spd EDC
- In 2016 one SA showroom could sell a Kadjar with this behind the petrol or a six-speed behind the diesel
- Same nameplate, same year, different gearbox — which is why we ask petrol or diesel first
- The Kadjar left the local range in September 2018, so the pool is small and the derivative has to be right
Priced against your VIN, because two of these that look identical often are not.
Six-speed manual
6-spd manual
- From March 2019 the four-wheel-drive Duster came with this and no automatic at all
- So on a Duster, a 4WD car and an EDC car are mutually exclusive
- On the Captur the manual only arrived with the August 2017 facelift
Priced against your VIN, because two of these that look identical often are not.
There is no price on the cards above, deliberately. A used unit is priced on the donor vehicle it came out of, so the honest answer only exists once we know which car yours is — which is why every button here asks for your details rather than showing you a number we made up. There is a guide to what these go for further down the page, gathered from other South African sellers.
Renault Gearbox Price Guide
The variants below are the ones that come up most on South African cars, with what other local sellers are asking for each. Work out which row is yours and the enquiry gets a great deal quicker.
| Variant | What it goes in | Typical asking price |
|---|---|---|
| Five-speed manual | Kwid, Triber, Sandero, Clio IV and Clio V. The only transmission ever offered on the South African Clio V. | R3 500 – R5 500 |
| Six-speed manual | Clio IV GT-Line, Captur from the August 2017 facelift, and every four-wheel-drive Duster from March 2019. | R3 000 – R6 500 |
| Easy-R automated manual | Kwid, Triber and the naturally aspirated Kiger. A manual gearbox with hydraulic actuators working the clutch and the shift. | — |
| CVT | Kiger Turbo and the Koleos. On the Kiger it came behind the turbo engine only, never the naturally aspirated one. | — |
| Six-speed EDC | Clio IV, Captur and the diesel Kadjar. Dual-clutch, and the box with the documented local fault history. | — |
| Seven-speed EDC | Kadjar 1.2 turbopetrol. Sold alongside the six-speed diesel car in the same 2016 showroom, which is exactly how people order the wrong one. | — |
Checked September 2026. Asking prices from other South African sellers for used units — a guide to the market, not a quote from us. A dash means we could not find two independent sellers advertising that variant, so we have not guessed.
Not sure which row you are? Send the VIN and let us work it out.
Gearboxes, explained
Buying a used gearbox is mostly an identification problem. Get the identification right and the rest is logistics; get it wrong and you have a heavy object that does not fit and is expensive to send back.
The manuals are the easy end. Most South African Renaults in the used market are five-speed manual cars — the entire second-generation Sandero run, the Clio V, the base Kwid, Triber and Kiger — and a manual box is largely defined by the engine it bolted to and the final drive it was given.
The EDC is the difficult end, and not because it is rare. It is a dual-clutch, so it has two clutch packs, a mechatronic control unit and its own failure modes, and cars.co.za has reported both faults and outright failures on the SA Captur. Critically, the EDC came as a six-speed on some cars and a seven-speed on others — the SA Kadjar had both simultaneously, seven-speed behind the petrol and six-speed behind the diesel. Ratio count is the first thing to establish, not the last.
Then there are the two automatics people mistake for a conventional auto. The Easy-R in the Kwid and Triber is an automated manual: an ordinary gearbox with a robot working the clutch. The CVT in the Koleos, and in the turbo Kiger at its 2021 launch, has no fixed ratios at all. Neither one shares parts with a dual-clutch or with each other.
A practical note on this market: in South Africa most used-gearbox adverts do not carry a price at all and say contact for a quote. That is not sellers being cagey — it is a reflection of how much the right unit varies. Send us the VIN and we will price the specific box.
How you know gearboxes are on the way out
Recognise any of that? Tell us the model and year and we will go and check what we can get hold of for you.
Why two identical-looking Renaults take different gearboxes
Strip away the catalogue language and what you are actually choosing between here is which of four unrelated automatic architectures is actually in your car.
Renault has sold an Easy-R automated manual, a CVT, a six-speed EDC dual-clutch and a seven-speed EDC in South Africa, alongside ordinary manuals. They share a badge and almost nothing else. In 2016 one local showroom could sell you a Kadjar with a seven-speed EDC behind the petrol engine or a six-speed behind the diesel — same nameplate, same year, different gearbox.
So we price gearboxes against your specific car, not against a badge. Send through the VIN and whether the car is petrol or diesel, and we will come back to you on what fits , what it will cost, and how soon we can have it moving.
Which Renault gearbox is actually in your car
Renault has sold an Easy-R automated manual, a CVT, a six-speed EDC dual-clutch and a seven-speed EDC in South Africa, alongside ordinary five- and six-speed manuals. They share a badge and almost nothing else, mechanically or in what they cost to replace. This is the one part on the car where "it is an automatic" tells us nothing at all, and where an enquiry that starts with the derivative rather than the badge saves everybody a week.
Two examples show how easily this goes wrong. On the Kiger, a CVT only ever came behind the turbo engine and the Easy-R only ever behind the naturally aspirated one — so "Kiger automatic" describes two unrelated machines depending on which car is standing in the driveway. And in 2016, a single South African showroom could sell you a Kadjar with a seven-speed EDC behind the petrol engine or a six-speed behind the diesel: same nameplate, same year, different box. That is why we ask whether the car is petrol or diesel before we ask anything else, and why the engine you have usually settles the gearbox question by itself.
The EDC is the one to be careful with, and we would rather say so plainly than sell you one quietly. It is a dual-clutch, not a torque converter, and the cars.co.za buyer’s guide for the Captur is blunt about how it behaved locally: hesitancy at low speed, particularly where a driver was yielding rather than stopping, with the transmission still hunting for a gear when the driver wanted to go — and, in its own words, several instances of EDC faults and outright failures. A Captur spends its life in traffic, which is precisely the duty cycle that finds a dual-clutch out. If yours is an EDC, tell us the symptom rather than the diagnosis and we will tell you honestly whether a replacement box is the sensible route.
One thing worth checking before you buy anything: on these cars a gearbox can be electronically tied to the vehicle it came out of, and the fitting shop needs to know that in advance rather than on the day. It is the same issue that makes a Renault control unit a different kind of purchase from an alternator. Send the VIN with your enquiry, say whether your workshop can code a unit to the car, and we will make sure what we quote is something they can actually commission once it is in.
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Further reading on gearboxes
Independent sources, not ours. Worth a look if you want the background before you enquire.
Gearboxes — the questions we field most
Ready to talk gearboxes?
Give us the VIN, or the model and year if the VIN is out of reach. We match the unit to your Renault first, then come back with the price and the carriage in one go.