I very well knew about how a dct works and shifts well before ford started using it, as VW had them starting in 2003 with a better wet clutch unit. us VW techs started going to schools for them in 2002.we well knew how they work. fords using the poorer less torque rated dry clutch design is the issue, it simply fails to work as well as the stronger wet design, electric ver hydraulic operation.
why am I ticked off? it is sold and listed as a automatic not what it is. sales people don't know about it's operation or fail to tell people about how it works. they simply sell it as a automatic .
[rolleyes]People complained about the VW DSG for YEARS. If you were unfortunate enough to have an early DSG in your VW or Audi, chances are you have spent a minimum of $2k to have the DSG replaced at some point. Ask any owner of the VW DSG, new or old, and they will tell you that the behaviors are the same. Jerking at low speed, noisy operation in traffic, as well as hunting for the right gear at the wrong time. You could spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a Lamborghini and the transmission will still feel like it's made out of cardboard
because that's just how automated manuals work.
Ford used the dry clutch Powershift in North American markets because A- It was cheaper to produce and B- it is designed to be maintenance free for 150,000 miles; a clear selling point in a market full of know-nothing consumers that have the majority of their auto maintenance done at the same store where they buy cat litter and bread.
There has never been anything wrong with the transmission, just people not knowing how to drive it. It's so UNFORTUNATE that the clutch packs seem to burn up after several thousand miles of abuse....[8]
Detailed information on this transmission and its behaviors has been readily available since at least 2011, so anyone too ignorant to research before their purchase gets no sympathy from me.
The dct is something a non tech wouldn't know anything about.
Yeah, because the same non tech people know everything there is to know about traditional automatics.... These are probably the same people killing themselves with the new Chrysler automatics where they just
forget to put the car in park and it runs them over, that is IF they haven't already killed themselves when they forgot to shut the car off because it has keyless start.[nono][nono]
