I currently own a 2014 ford focus se hatchback and have owned it since 2020. I went from 93k miles to where I’m at now 216k miles and one clutch replacement at 189k miles and it’s been fine since. There is a certain way it has to be driven as a few friends of mine own a focus as well and have nothing but issues with theirs, but they also drive like people without a brain.
Now I’m not saying that it’s a good trans because trust me when my actuators and clutches went I was furious but $3k down and it still rides well. I do wish I could swap something like the 6F15 or 6f35 into it but that doesn’t fit if I remember correctly. I could also do the MTX75 swap.
I could have sworn I read a few years ago that Ford had no readily available replacement transmission that would fit, that either the Getrag transmission was specifically designed to fit the Fiesta/Focus or Ford designers only left enough room for the Getrag Powershift.
@@thehighllama8101 The Focus 1.0L EcoBoost I3 (FOX) was offered with the 6F15 similar to all the other Ford/GM 6 speeds, but rated for less torque. I'm sure the 6F35 would've worked with the 2.0
I had a 2012 and I took a bath on it. It ran fine for 25k miles then it developed this really bad noise. Not all the time but often enough to where you couldn't be driving it around. It sounded like a giant bird was screeching from under the hood. That's when it started. That car probably had 4 or 5 different clutch packs in it, numerous software updates and finally a brand new DSP6 that arrived on a wooden skid from Dearborn. Its a shame really because it was a nice car otherwise. It did exactly what it was supposed to do. It was peppy, delivered decent fuel economy, it was relatively quiet inside. It was a darn nice little car. That transmission ruined the whole thing. I ended up trading it in on a 2014 Escape. I took a bath on it but that was before the whole class action suit etc. When the engineers said don't ship it they should've listened and put a regular 6 speed automatic in there.
I wasn't impressed when I tested the first PowerShift Focus. I told the sales staff the transmission was clunky, and one of the sales guys claimed that the transmission had to "learn" my driving habits, then it would smooth out. I later had one as a loaner car when I had an issue on my truck that needed fixing. It seemed to do OK. A few years later, I tested and almost bought a new 2015 Focus. But in the end, I bought the car I still have today, a 2015 Hyundai Elantra. I've been hearing the PowerShift has problems at 30K miles. I'm glad I missed that trouble.
My wife still drives her 2014 Focus with the DCT. 130k miles. I think it’s had 1 transmission replacements and 3 clutch packs. It is jerky as all hell. She loves it though! It’s a real shame because it’s a great car otherwise! Next time it goes outside of warranty I’ll have an excuse to junk it lol
i literally just traded in my focus 3 days ago for a honda civic for this exact issue. significant upgrade. especially with the CVT transmission, sooooo smooth. nothing else was wrong with the car other than than the transmission
We had one Ford model in India which was sold with the DCT. It had numerous failures. It doesn't do well in hot climates and stop and go traffic and the other failures get accelerated. Its a similar story with the VW/Skoda DQ200 gearbox. Also a dry clutch DCT like Ford and also had higher failure rates with accelerated wear of the multiclutch and overheating and cracking of the mechatronics. The VW gearbox was great to drive through
All of this! ☝🏾 The Germans made mostly wet clutches because of the failure rate of Dry Clutches. Its only real benefit is that it saves costs and weight.
Every single Ford owner I know from the last 10 years has had a rough time of it. Family friends 2014 Escape had a transmission failure at 70k. Buddy with a 2014 Mustang had transmission go at 40k and the interiors was super cheap and falling apart. Was in a Ford Fiesta and it was such a dreadful experience. The materials were also coming apart. Uncle had a F-150. I'm not sure what kept happening but it was so bad he got a RAM truck instead. Ford has had decling market share gloablly for a while and is free fall. Along with having low profits for each car sold compared to other brands. They are in full retreat gloablly. Ive met people whose first cars were Escapes and Fusions and all they tell me how bad they were.
@@BrkDownMedia I like the last gen Fusions. I meant the Fusions from the 2000s. I see a lot of them but also meet a lot of people who had issues with them. Learned how drive in a last gen Fusion. They sure do look nice. Wish we got the liftback variant.
Ford PowerShift was affectionately nicknamed PowerShit for good reason. My brother had a 2014 Fiesta with the DCT. He lost reverse 6 months of ownership. Thankfully, it was within warranty and was fixed for free. He got rid of it a month or two later.
Oddly enough all people who I know who have a focus or fiesta still drive them. A couple don’t have the issue, but my friend just been dealing with the fucky transmission for damn near a decade. I don’t know how, but they’re still alive. I guess that’s something. Now my aunts first gen 2002 focus is still going strong on original automatic and engine, and she drives every day with it.
@@BrkDownMedia we had it sooooo good. Damn it ford. And now we don’t even have small cars. okay, but how should we define reliable? Cuz my friend took him and his husband from North Carolina, to me in California in 2021 with that fuck ass transmission. He made it, it was at 180 or 190k . And it jittered a lot. But it still technically is workingggggggg fine??? He still driving that shit TODAYYY. Saying “it’s only cut out a couple times at an intersection” Sure, it is shit, but I mean the bitch is still driving. So I mean I guess it is reliable in the sense it can still drive for a long time without any repair. I am hard pressed to say that it isn’t reliable, but at the same time, I wouldn’t recommend driving the damn thing. I just think we need a better word, cuz unreliable seems like an over and understatement at the same time for, well at least the focus. Most my fiesta friends haven’t had that issue consistently, it comes and goes for them on rare occasions. But again, it’s still moving. But then the only ones I see online for sale or usually manuals, idkkk man. I’m just rambling, but I could go on forever about the nuance of these things
All of them aren’t faulty, just neglected. Transmission service is often forgotten about as it’s out of sight, out of mind. Fords trucks uses Toyota Engineered transmissions (Aisin) in several of their products.
Here in Brazil most of the people get rid of PowerSh¡t swapping for a manual transmission. But Ford wasn't alone, Fiat brought Dualogic and GM brought Easytronic, all tra$h
Currently my sister has a 2019 fiesta with about 55k miles on it, well maintained and yet still that sh*t transmission along with the OTHER questionable quality problems about that vehicle is the reason she is giving the car back to the dealership. I told her to NEVER buy another Ford again. Just like Nissan with their CVT issues.
Getrag dual clutch transmissions are garbage wet or dry evo x and ralliarts had a gettag wet dual clutch trans and they rarely saw 100k, what I'm about to say is not a joke they used a plastic shift fork that was glued on
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I currently own a 2014 ford focus se hatchback and have owned it since 2020. I went from 93k miles to where I’m at now 216k miles and one clutch replacement at 189k miles and it’s been fine since.
There is a certain way it has to be driven as a few friends of mine own a focus as well and have nothing but issues with theirs, but they also drive like people without a brain.
Now I’m not saying that it’s a good trans because trust me when my actuators and clutches went I was furious but $3k down and it still rides well. I do wish I could swap something like the 6F15 or 6f35 into it but that doesn’t fit if I remember correctly. I could also do the MTX75 swap.
Yeah, honestly knowing that the wet clutch design could have solved 90% of the problems makes it much more of a head scratcher.
Ford literally could've easily and quickly fixed this problem by using the 6F35. They ruined an otherwise trouble free car.
Precisely! But ya know the rent was due.
I could have sworn I read a few years ago that Ford had no readily available replacement transmission that would fit, that either the Getrag transmission was specifically designed to fit the Fiesta/Focus or Ford designers only left enough room for the Getrag Powershift.
@@thehighllama8101 The Focus 1.0L EcoBoost I3 (FOX) was offered with the 6F15 similar to all the other Ford/GM 6 speeds, but rated for less torque. I'm sure the 6F35 would've worked with the 2.0
I wish they would have at least kept making the ST/RS in the US. I have a 2014 ST, and it has been a great car, as it has a 6 speed manual.
This transmission is why I kept my last Escort for 25 years.
I had a 2012 and I took a bath on it. It ran fine for 25k miles then it developed this really bad noise. Not all the time but often enough to where you couldn't be driving it around. It sounded like a giant bird was screeching from under the hood. That's when it started. That car probably had 4 or 5 different clutch packs in it, numerous software updates and finally a brand new DSP6 that arrived on a wooden skid from Dearborn. Its a shame really because it was a nice car otherwise. It did exactly what it was supposed to do. It was peppy, delivered decent fuel economy, it was relatively quiet inside. It was a darn nice little car. That transmission ruined the whole thing. I ended up trading it in on a 2014 Escape. I took a bath on it but that was before the whole class action suit etc. When the engineers said don't ship it they should've listened and put a regular 6 speed automatic in there.
It was somebody’s pet project, and unfortunately it costed customers millions of dollars in safety and inconvenience. Not Fords best work.
I wasn't impressed when I tested the first PowerShift Focus. I told the sales staff the transmission was clunky, and one of the sales guys claimed that the transmission had to "learn" my driving habits, then it would smooth out. I later had one as a loaner car when I had an issue on my truck that needed fixing. It seemed to do OK. A few years later, I tested and almost bought a new 2015 Focus. But in the end, I bought the car I still have today, a 2015 Hyundai Elantra. I've been hearing the PowerShift has problems at 30K miles. I'm glad I missed that trouble.
My wife still drives her 2014 Focus with the DCT. 130k miles. I think it’s had 1 transmission replacements and 3 clutch packs. It is jerky as all hell. She loves it though! It’s a real shame because it’s a great car otherwise! Next time it goes outside of warranty I’ll have an excuse to junk it lol
Yeah, unfortunately that was a direct result of the divorce from Mazda. I've thought about getting a ST cause I love that generation.
When I sold my wife's 2013 Ford Focus powershift, I was so sick and tired of it that I was happy to take any price offered
That’s not the first time someone has said that 🤦🏾♂️
i literally just traded in my focus 3 days ago for a honda civic for this exact issue. significant upgrade. especially with the CVT transmission, sooooo smooth. nothing else was wrong with the car other than than the transmission
The New Civics are really nice. I plan on getting an Integra Type S at some point.
CVT (╬▔皿▔)╯
We had one Ford model in India which was sold with the DCT. It had numerous failures. It doesn't do well in hot climates and stop and go traffic and the other failures get accelerated. Its a similar story with the VW/Skoda DQ200 gearbox. Also a dry clutch DCT like Ford and also had higher failure rates with accelerated wear of the multiclutch and overheating and cracking of the mechatronics. The VW gearbox was great to drive through
All of this! ☝🏾 The Germans made mostly wet clutches because of the failure rate of Dry Clutches. Its only real benefit is that it saves costs and weight.
Every single Ford owner I know from the last 10 years has had a rough time of it.
Family friends 2014 Escape had a transmission failure at 70k.
Buddy with a 2014 Mustang had transmission go at 40k and the interiors was super cheap and falling apart.
Was in a Ford Fiesta and it was such a dreadful experience. The materials were also coming apart.
Uncle had a F-150. I'm not sure what kept happening but it was so bad he got a RAM truck instead.
Ford has had decling market share gloablly for a while and is free fall. Along with having low profits for each car sold compared to other brands. They are in full retreat gloablly.
Ive met people whose first cars were Escapes and Fusions and all they tell me how bad they were.
Yeah, and apparently the Fusion is dead reliable with some minor problems like the coolant.
@@BrkDownMedia I like the last gen Fusions. I meant the Fusions from the 2000s. I see a lot of them but also meet a lot of people who had issues with them.
Learned how drive in a last gen Fusion. They sure do look nice. Wish we got the liftback variant.
Ford PowerShift was affectionately nicknamed PowerShit for good reason. My brother had a 2014 Fiesta with the DCT. He lost reverse 6 months of ownership. Thankfully, it was within warranty and was fixed for free. He got rid of it a month or two later.
😭 A headache with washer fluid
I agree, the 90s 5.0 tbirds were great cars.
If it didn’t rust out, I would probably still have it. 😢
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Oddly enough all people who I know who have a focus or fiesta still drive them. A couple don’t have the issue, but my friend just been dealing with the fucky transmission for damn near a decade. I don’t know how, but they’re still alive. I guess that’s something.
Now my aunts first gen 2002 focus is still going strong on original automatic and engine, and she drives every day with it.
That is something. Anything before the 2013 was reliable if you took care of it. My best friend had a 09 and she got 225k
@@BrkDownMedia we had it sooooo good. Damn it ford. And now we don’t even have small cars.
okay, but how should we define reliable?
Cuz my friend took him and his husband from North Carolina, to me in California in 2021 with that fuck ass transmission. He made it, it was at 180 or 190k . And it jittered a lot. But it still technically is workingggggggg fine??? He still driving that shit TODAYYY. Saying “it’s only cut out a couple times at an intersection”
Sure, it is shit, but I mean the bitch is still driving. So I mean I guess it is reliable in the sense it can still drive for a long time without any repair. I am hard pressed to say that it isn’t reliable, but at the same time, I wouldn’t recommend driving the damn thing. I just think we need a better word, cuz unreliable seems like an over and understatement at the same time for, well at least the focus. Most my fiesta friends haven’t had that issue consistently, it comes and goes for them on rare occasions. But again, it’s still moving. But then the only ones I see online for sale or usually manuals, idkkk man. I’m just rambling, but I could go on forever about the nuance of these things
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I wonder which is worse Ford or Nissan transmission.
Ford. At least Nissan was a matter of Engine Power to Transmission ratio. The Ford Trans was just engineered poorly.
They ruined a great car because of that transmission. I loved my 2013 except for that transmission. That was the only reason I traded it.
I've heard its a luck of the draw if it holds up or not.
@@BrkDownMedia the first transmission failed under warranty. When the second one started failing, that was my cue to trade it 😔
Not had this problem but wouldn’t buy another Ford due to wet cam belt issues in newer transits that they refuse to honour in their warranties in uk
Sheesh! I haven't looked into that yet. I wonder if it its a supplier issue or engineering issue.
I came here to find out why all Ford transmissions are faulty.... seems like every Ford I've driven was ok but transmission dies around 150-180k mi.
All of them aren’t faulty, just neglected. Transmission service is often forgotten about as it’s out of sight, out of mind. Fords trucks uses Toyota Engineered transmissions (Aisin) in several of their products.
Jim Farley needs to be fired! Engineers should be in charge, not MBA's!
Here in Brazil most of the people get rid of PowerSh¡t swapping for a manual transmission. But Ford wasn't alone, Fiat brought Dualogic and GM brought Easytronic, all tra$h
Yeah. It’s really after the gas crisis of ‘73 that things go down hill for the Big 3.
Currently my sister has a 2019 fiesta with about 55k miles on it, well maintained and yet still that sh*t transmission along with the OTHER questionable quality problems about that vehicle is the reason she is giving the car back to the dealership. I told her to NEVER buy another Ford again. Just like Nissan with their CVT issues.
The crazy thing is the Fusions and Edges are super reliable. I think it’s just when Ford Cheaps out, they cheap out hard!
Getrag dual clutch transmissions are garbage wet or dry evo x and ralliarts had a gettag wet dual clutch trans and they rarely saw 100k, what I'm about to say is not a joke they used a plastic shift fork that was glued on