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Originally Posted by Hersbird
Some of the problems if not most of them with the Ford dual clutch auto is just that it doesn't act like either a manual or an automatic. It's different, so many drivers just think it's wrong. Sort of like some of the "problems" with a CVT. So if it rolls back on a slight hill it's broken not just being a manual. If it doesn't shift when you wanted it's broken not just being an automatic. That said my brother in law bought a current style Focus used with 120,000 miles on it but did get the real manual just in case. The DCT problems got him a good deal on it as well as the poor reliability marks on review sites rarely break it down to say it's just the automatics with transmission issues.
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The problem isn't that it shifts differently, or weitd, like a cvt drone. The problem is that it shifts like a POS. It shudders terribly. The weird thing is, if you just flog it like...well, a rental, it actually does OK. It is normal driving that it doesn't like.
For the life of me, I don't understand how a company with the engineering resources of Ford, let this turd come to market.