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302BOB said:Please notice this gifted driver is driving a manual (stick shift) car. All the fun of this gets taken away when you put an automatic trans in the mix. I know the new 8 spd auto trans are faster than old school manuals, but the thrill of shifting will always be in my blood..
superhero said:good thing he didn't have the MT82.
I wouldn't be going there. I've got two techs and two service managers at two different Ford dealers that agree my transmission was not working properly. If the clutch was the problem, they should have replaced the clutch during one of the three rebuilds or the replacement of my trans. As it stands, my car still has the original clutch and the original problem I took it in for when it only had about 3k miles on it.k98dave said:I suspect a little "operator error" in there as well. :
k98dave said:Well sorry but I'm going there! There has been so many clutch issues posted here that I lost count, but in reviewing them upgrading the clutch would have been the most obvious thing to do.
Seems reasonable to think that if you went ahead and ungraded to an aftermarket clutch with the first problem, and certainly after the 2nd trans replacement you would have saved yourself all the trouble. I would bet even though you would have to pay for the better clutch yourself, the techs would have cut you a deal on the install since most of the labor was already covered. I don't have any trans issues but if & when I do I will get the best aftermarket clutch I can and have that done at the same time.
Primarily grinding going into second gear. Not notchiness but gut-wrenching metal on metal grinding with the clutch fully depressed. Also notchy going into third. After the third rebuild, I took it back to the dealer the very next day and the service manager himself got a nice crunching shift right out of the dealership's driveway. Then they decided to replace it.k98dave said:As I said if you are on the 3rd trans and still claiming to have your "original problem" which you didn't say what it was, then clearly something else is wrong.
Since the problem has been remarkably consistent over the number of "repairs", I humbly suggest that they are setting it up exactly as it came from the factory. As of now, I have installed all the usual "fixes" for notchy shifts, MGW shifter, Whiteline bushing and Blowfish bracket. Since the Blowfish bracket install, it is at the point now where it shifts normally after a half hour/forty-five minutes of driving. I tend not to drive it unless I'm going to drive for an hour or more to heat it up until I can shift into second without flinching. If the factory clutch is the problem, then I truly believe that Ford should honor it's warranty and replace it with whatever clutch works if the factory clutch is insufficient.k98dave said:Maybe your dealer's service guys are just not up to par.
Boss0960 said:They did put a whole new transmission in it. That was their final attempt at a fix. When I told the regional rep it didn't work, they offered the Customer Loyalty Coupon instead of another attempt to fix it. I know a new clutch is in my future. It just bugs me that that it seems required while the car was only two months old with about 3k miles on it. It also bugs me that I spent the first two years of ownership chasing down a fix through Ford dealers that was never fully achieved.