Long story short, I want a fully loaded gen 8 (that is, power door locks, power windows, power mirrors, ABS, cruise control, tach and 185/65/14 tires) that is a manual for my lifelong companion. There is a fully loaded auto gen 8 within my family that I can readily lay claim to, that I'm also trying to put on sale.
But for getting a manual car, all manual gen 8s that I can find are cheap VE or CE that only have power door locks at most.
So to get at this goal, I have to swap parts in. DIY is no problem for me.
I don't know if a non-power car would have the wires required for the power options.
Now I can claim the car and do a manual swap, or keep trying to sell it and buy the first reasonably priced manual and up-option it as needed.
Which way is better?
ps. Fish: Thanks for your info!