JD Direct Drive

DaveJ

Member
Location
Montgomeryshire
What's the general view on this transmission? Used a 6150r with it for a couple of days this week. Never encountered it before, most of the Rs around here seem to be AutoQuad.
 

General-Lee

Member
Location
Devon
Only drove one for a day thought it was ok lots better than the antiquated AQ/PQ and was nice having auto but found it wasn't nowhere near as smooth to drive as the AP.
 

Mouser

Member
Location
near Belfast
Find it very disappointing, far better than manual, but not up to the hype the mothership made it out to be. Little, if any better than range command was 15 years ago. Only noticeable advantage being proper shuttle. Speed matching between ranges always seems to be wrong and auto mode not much use for hilly roads.
 

D14

Member
What's the general view on this transmission? Used a 6150r with it for a couple of days this week. Never encountered it before, most of the Rs around here seem to be AutoQuad.

A friend works for a JD dealership and he says sales of direct drive are of a disappointment to JD as they thought it was the future. But he freely admits the pricing is wrong and it should be the same price as auto quad and not auto power. We did try one about 3 years ago and did not really see the point in it to be honest as any cvt box is much better.
 

Timbo

Member
Location
Gods County
Not driven one myself but some say there can be a frustrating delay between range changes under some conditions on earlier tractors ??

That said more recent software may have improved it
 

DieselRob

Member
BASE UK Member
Location
North Yorkshire
I went from AQ to DD and loved it, leaps ahead but then swapped another tractor PQ to AP and that's even better, as said above for only a few hundred quid I wouldn't buy another DD over AP. For DD to sell in numbers it needs to be 4 or 5 grand discount to AP and do away with PQ/AQ especially now they have brought out command quad for the "stockman" M series
 

s86t

Member
Would the direct drive outperform the auto power on transport work?
No they don't the thing with a auto power is they are so smooth and always keep the engine at peak power other thing I hate on dd is get to a junction and you've got 8 gears to get back to full speed again and unlike a aq you have to go through each gear. I'm not trying to take anything away from the dd it is a brilliant box probably the best powershift on the market but not a patch on a vario
 

Breckland Boy

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Breckland
No they don't the thing with a auto power is they are so smooth and always keep the engine at peak power other thing I hate on dd is get to a junction and you've got 8 gears to get back to full speed again and unlike a aq you have to go through each gear. I'm not trying to take anything away from the dd it is a brilliant box probably the best powershift on the market but not a patch on a vario
No they don't the thing with a auto power is they are so smooth and always keep the engine at peak power other thing I hate on dd is get to a junction and you've got 8 gears to get back to full speed again and unlike a aq you have to go through each gear. I'm not trying to take anything away from the dd it is a brilliant box probably the best powershift on the market but not a patch on a vario
I couldn't agree more. I owned a 6930 Vario which I loved but changed it for a 6150r direct drive. If anyone has an option to upspec from a quad box go straight to a vario
 

TJB

Member
Location
Kent
Absolutely no benefit over ever of them auto power all the way for me you won't understand how much better vario is until you've owned one

Wouldn't be without auto power for spud work here, was wondering if direct driver would be better for transport work, but then auto power is really fool proof driving especially with novice drivers on trailer work [emoji848]
 

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