What do you think about the reliability of this transmission?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWTF-80_SC
It is an AISIN transmission but funny enough Toyota is not supplied this transmission rather other companies like Volvo and Mazda are using them. The thing is, the Ford Five Hundred has this transmission and in Scotty's video about the Ford 500, he said that the 6 speed was total garbage he had customers where the transmission went out at like 20 000 miles. Let me remind you that this is an AISIN transmission. How come? Is it about the application in every single make model or is the same transmission a transmission? The Ford Fusion from 2006-2012 has this but he put the Fusion as one of his top 5 best cars to buy, which I assume means that he doesn't intend the transmission to go out a lot. Volvo also uses it but I know that the Volvo AISIN 6 speeds are reliable Scotty did a review on one with this transmission and said it was very reliable. They generally last 150k miles at least. So what is going on? Please give me your ideas.
@kerem-umut-kerem
My wife has 2019 jetta with same transmission. BURR is what we call the car. Coffee grinder noise with up shifts.
At times the car can't shift well enough to get out of its own way. Dealer and VW corporation don't care. Car only has 8000 miles on it. Has done since new.
Well the transmission of course transmit power from the engine and sometimes the transmission is an engines do not match together all that well.of course engines that are weaker with less power strain the transmission is more and Ford always puts higher horsepower engines in which can burn out transmissions that a smaller engine will not. It's never as simple as it seems
My 2012 mazda 3i touring with the 2.0L Skyactiv engine with 166k miles on it has that transmission. I haven't changed the transmission fluid and I haven't had any problems. I agree with Scotty, though. It really depends what it's attached to and how you use it.
