Scotty love your channels, been watching for years. I was wondering what you think about Ford's adaptive transmission. My mom has a 2016 ford edge( non EcoBoost), it's shifts really hard and delayed sometimes, vehicle only has 47000km( thunder Bay Ontario, Canada).
Ford's manual and mechanics say it's normal for it to shift like that as it needs to learn driving habits. I feel like after 47000km the car should have learnt the driving habits by now, but it continues to shift so hard that you feel it throught the car, and it clunks loudly when it does this. And again, sometimes the shift is delayed, there is even times when you go from park to drive and it actually has a several second delay before it recognizes that your pressing the gas and actually begins to accelerate. To me this does not seem normal.
There is no dipstick to check it. Its a sealed unit from the top.
There is no such thing as a "sealed" transmission. If there is no dipstick you need to get under the car and check fluid level at the fill plug. Probably needs to be checked with the transmission at operating temperature.
OP posted this back in September 2021.
Yikes! Usually I do look at dates but was in a hurry this morning.
Unfortunately, these signs show that the transmission has issues. Have you checked the ATF level?
There is no dipstick to check it. Its a sealed unit from the top.
This thread is from September 2021.
@daywalker it's his thread
Are you still having this issue? If you have been driving this way for 1.5 years, then the transmission may already be damaged beyond repair. You have to get on these things immediately. Take the vehicle to a transmission specialist to have it evaluated.
Ford's adaptive transmission
Which one? the MPS6i dual clutch or the 6F35/50/55 conventional automatic?
If it's the dual clutch, a pretty rare configuration for the North American market - I had the same issue at about 60k miles on a Volvo with that transmission, the issue was obliterated damper springs and the clips that hold them in.
If it's the conventional, it really depends on the specifics - at first I'd probably see if it's on the latest software and just reset to see if it can re-adapt. at under 30k miles I doubt if it has actually failed or as ford calls this "learned bad habits"
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This thread is from September 2021.
Update: oops.
@kellog did you find a solution?
