Also known as: bg6, aisin bg6, ag6, chrysler 6-speed manual, dmt6, dmt-6, getrag dmt6
Aisin's six-speed manual transaxle for Chrysler's compact front-drive cars — the Caliber, Journey, Sebring, Jeep Compass and Patriot.
⚑ Chrysler's own literature calls this gearbox the Getrag DMT6, and the parts catalogue carries both names on one part number. Who actually built it is not settled here: the sales code BG6 follows Chrysler's Aisin naming and the press material credits Getrag, and this page keeps the name it has rather than picking a side. A listing quoting either code is quoting this transaxle.
It is the six-speed sibling of the Magna T355, fitted behind the larger engines and the diesels where the five-speed went behind the rest. The two are frequently confused in parts listings because the cars, the years and the model names are identical; the ratio count is the only thing that separates them.
Its recurring complaint is the clutch hydraulics rather than the gearbox. The concentric slave cylinder lives inside the bellhousing, so a failed seal — a pedal that sinks, a gear that will not engage when hot — becomes a gearbox-out job for a cheap part. It is worth replacing whenever the clutch is out, whatever its condition.
The gearbox itself is unremarkable and that is worth saying plainly. Second-gear synchro wear and linkage bushings account for most of what is genuinely wrong with them, and both behave as they do on any transverse manual.
Cars fitted with this gearbox
5 generations. Only where a source names the model and the generation together — a gearbox is documented as a product far more often than as a fitment, so this list is deliberately shorter than the truth.
Chrysler
Jeep
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