diff --git a/lib/manager/nvm/index.ts b/lib/manager/nvm/index.ts
index 17bf260096f55e734fb959f411b1db2e7e4e60f6..39baa77b422e21fce9b7b28446c46a4f5bcb82f4 100644
--- a/lib/manager/nvm/index.ts
+++ b/lib/manager/nvm/index.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ import { LANGUAGE_NODE } from '../../constants/languages';
 import * as nodeVersioning from '../../versioning/node';
 
 export { extractPackageFile } from './extract';
-export { updateDependency } from './update';
+
+export const autoReplace = true;
 
 export const language = LANGUAGE_NODE;
 
diff --git a/lib/manager/nvm/update.spec.ts b/lib/manager/nvm/update.spec.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 4327bac986cdf2aebd7e308399054e2a774a9a10..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/lib/manager/nvm/update.spec.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-import { updateDependency } from './update';
-
-describe('manager/nvm/update', () => {
-  describe('updateDependency', () => {
-    it('updates values', () => {
-      const upgrade = {
-        newValue: '8.9.1',
-      };
-      const res = updateDependency({ fileContent: '8.9.0\n', upgrade });
-      expect(res).toMatchSnapshot();
-    });
-  });
-});
diff --git a/lib/manager/nvm/update.ts b/lib/manager/nvm/update.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 7707618cf4d4caa5f5bc7b144faf299933166e02..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/lib/manager/nvm/update.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-import { logger } from '../../logger';
-import { UpdateDependencyConfig } from '../common';
-
-export function updateDependency({ upgrade }: UpdateDependencyConfig): string {
-  logger.debug(`nvm.updateDependency(): ${upgrade.newVersion}`);
-  return `${upgrade.newValue}\n`;
-}