Farewell to fifth gear.
#41
Wow! I have not posted for a LONG time, but this kind of garbage spewed from your service advisor is what gives dealer service such a bad name. Skip-shift is solely designed and implemented to improve CAFE numbers for Ford. It forces you to shift from first to fourth under light acceleration and throttle position only in a effort to improve fuel mileage. It is NOT in any way designed to "protect" your transmission. Please do not accept this explanation because it is at best, ignorant, but much more likely, a blatent lie to make you go away. These cars are not perfect but were absolutely designed from the beginning to be driven hard, reliably. This "self preservation" feature, does not exist. Definitely PM Deysha from Ford Customer Service. She has helped many people here get results on issues like these. Best of luck to you.
As far as I know the dealer is still approaching this as warranty work, I have not heard otherwise, so I will not bother Deysha just yet.
Last edited by davegush; 10/12/12 at 08:28 PM. Reason: added some detail
#42
Car has been repaired, and was under warranty. Thank you Ford.
I looked at the the broken parts and was a bit taken aback by how fragile this transmission is. Ford should have kept the Tremec in the Boss and left this transmission for the 6 bangers. Anyone know what transmission is in the Cobra Jet? I can guarantee its not an MT82
While my car has been repaired, it is not fixed. The repair parts are not any beefier, than the broken parts. So the broken part was the 3-4 shift fork, a plastic guide shoe cracked off. It is a very small and fragile part. Some missing teeth from the 2nd and 4th gear synchros, plus some collateral damage.
Word of advice to everyone, disable the skip shift, and shift like a grandma, Smooth and Easy are the key words here. Note that the 2013's have the skip shift feature disabled from the factory.
If it breaks again I won't even bother with it, I'll just go get a Tremec and fix it for good.
I looked at the the broken parts and was a bit taken aback by how fragile this transmission is. Ford should have kept the Tremec in the Boss and left this transmission for the 6 bangers. Anyone know what transmission is in the Cobra Jet? I can guarantee its not an MT82
While my car has been repaired, it is not fixed. The repair parts are not any beefier, than the broken parts. So the broken part was the 3-4 shift fork, a plastic guide shoe cracked off. It is a very small and fragile part. Some missing teeth from the 2nd and 4th gear synchros, plus some collateral damage.
Word of advice to everyone, disable the skip shift, and shift like a grandma, Smooth and Easy are the key words here. Note that the 2013's have the skip shift feature disabled from the factory.
If it breaks again I won't even bother with it, I'll just go get a Tremec and fix it for good.
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