{"id":1022,"date":"2019-12-10T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2019-12-10T10:48:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T15:48:22","slug":"freep-ford-knowingly-made-rubbish-transmissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/2019\/12\/freep-ford-knowingly-made-rubbish-transmissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Freep: Ford knowingly made rubbish transmissions"},"content":{"rendered":"
Phoebe Wall Howard of the Detroit Free Press<\/em><\/a>, in a story picked up by USA Today<\/em>, wrote that seven Ford employees knew about defects in transmissions used by the Ford Fiesta and Ford Focus<\/a>.<\/p>\n The employees told the Freep<\/em> writer that\u00a0the problems were known to Engineering, Product Development, and Manufacturing alike, along with other groups. The DPS6 dual-clutch transmission, dubbed \u201cPowerShift,\u201d was installed in two million cars. While dual-dry-clutch (DDCT) transmissions are common, the Ford design did not have appropriate cooling, resulting in numerous failures that triggered a lawsuit and criminal investigation. (Over 4,300 complaints were filed with the federal government, with fifty injuries.)<\/p>\n