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Originally Posted by Yellow_Festiva
How the hell did these gearboxes pass testing during the development stage?
How could companies like Ford, VW and Audi etc think they could sell millions of these faulty units and get away with it?
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If you've been following the story at Ford, they actually didn't pass, the engineer overseeing
development had grave reservations about shift quality and said that the box needed more
development time. The alarm bells should have been going off back then.
But the biggest rasberry should go to Getrag, they must have known that this box was a
crap box of problems waiting to happen. Ford and GM should be back charging them heaps.
Sad fact is that the Ford-GM torque converter 6-speed automatic would have worked perfectly,
Ford USA had it there but couldn't convince Ford Europe to change their design and use it.
And when they finally did in 2015, Ford NA was too cheap to switch away from 2.0 DI
as nearly every Focus they made lost money. Go figure Ford doing this to itself to save money.