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Originally Posted by happy1
I watched a Youtube documentary, 20 minutes of a reporter explaining Ford Australia's side of the story. It explains there have been 3 or more individual problems with the transmission. First an oil leak that makes the clutches contaminated with oil, then electronics failure where a chip overheats / breaks in the control unit causing slower processing of the gear shifting, then finally a unsuitable clutch friction material that does not handle all the heat in a hot Australian climate. For the general owner this all translates to 'sh*t car, faulty transmission'. According to Ford when all these modifications are in place there shouldn't be any further problems for up to another 100.000 km, (usual wear of clutches etc). ... that's if we believe them.
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Must have taken them awhile to work all that out, as I only know three people with DSG Focus and once they'd finally got Ford to admit there was a problem, all three had multiple "fixes" and multiple gearbox replacements - one done three times, two done twice. Two of those cars have been sold, the third is apparently now driving ok after second gearbox.