I'm looking at a 2000 A4 quattro that has 86K miles on it but it's an auto. I have ALWAYS shyed away from auto's because most seem to be unreliable. I have no experience here so would like some input as to wheter this is a good tranny or should i hold out for a stick?

Also the price is really good and the car is clean, so if the auto is problematic, how tough is a manual swap in this rig? I'm fairly mech inclined, (i'm building a CJ-7 rock crawler with a mustang V8, 1 ton axles and custom frame/susp) so what's everyone's take?