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Ford: Another victim of Dual Clutch Transmission

Ford: Another victim of Dual Clutch Transmission

SYF77

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How do you feel when you see VW rims on Skoda?  

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In an effort to improve the performance of the 6-speed dual-clutch transmission in its 2011 Fiesta and 2012 Focus, Ford has issued several technical service bulletins over the last two months in the US. The brand


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Ilmw

Torque converters are lossy, while humans are not the best shifters in manual. Dual clutch is the best of both worlds and is the way forward. Implementation wise, of cos there will be initial teething issues. Mito's Fiat TCT and other DCT are like-wise.

 

Give it a few years.

 

ps: sadly, Japanese are late/not following...

Green: Conti -> diesel, Jap -> hybrid

Emission: Conti -> turbo small-engine, Jap -> nothing

Drive train: Conti -> DCT, Jap -> nothing

 

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Felipe

One needs to be aware of replacing dual clutch transmission parts. Its very unlikely anyone on dual clutch can get to 100k mileage without a single fault.

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