Scotty,
My wife’s car has 79,000 miles on it. It’s never missed an oil change or a tire rotation. We change the air filters regularly. However, the other day she went to the grocery store about 5miles away and went over a bump on the way home and the car wouldn’t go into gear. She’d hit the gas and it’d sputter and the eventually lose power. On the dash the screen flashed: “Transmission Fault Service Now”. We had the car towed to Ford and they recommended they fix the recall and do a diagnostic if that didn’t fix the issue.
Honesty, we are kinda scared of the car now. We checked the maintenance guide and it didn’t call for doing a transmission fluid change until 100K miles. What should we do here? Should we “escape” this car all together?
Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
Honesty, we are kinda scared of the car now. We checked the maintenance guide and it didn’t call for doing a transmission fluid change until 100K miles.
I don't say this one too often, but don't listen to the engineers who designed your car. Who pays for the new transmission after 5 years or 60,000 miles? Not the engineers, it's on you because the powertrain warranty expired. Change the transmission fluid if you want it to last.
I don't say this one too often, but don't listen to the engineers who designed your car. Who pays for the new transmission after 5 years or 60,000 miles? Not the engineers, it's on you
This advice is coming from an engineer ( an honest one )
Transmission failure appears to be fairly common with that model, engine problems more so.
