Motoring Discussion > Ford - Auto gearboxes Buying / Selling
Thread Author: MD Replies: 17
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 Wed 29 Jul 15 05:05 
 Ford - Auto gearboxes - MD
Are Ford Auto boxes any longer lived now than in the likes of the 2.9 Granada Ghia I bought in the late 80's?

It seemed some fell over about the 60k mark.
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 Wed 29 Jul 15 06:44 
 Ford - Auto gearboxes - Skip

>> It seemed some fell over about the 60k mark.
>>

The majority of those auto boxes failed at around the 60k mark. I dont know what the later TC boxes are like, but avoid the current automated manual Powershift as they are starting to give the same problems as the VAG DSG ones.
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 Wed 29 Jul 15 09:50 
 Ford - Auto gearboxes - Boxsterboy
>> I dont know
>> what the later TC boxes are like, but avoid the current automated manual Powershift as
>> they are starting to give the same problems as the VAG DSG ones.
>>

What sort of problems are they giving, Skip? I ask because our S-Max Powershift is coming up to 57,000 with no apparent issues.
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 Wed 29 Jul 15 08:25 
 Ford - Auto gearboxes - Dog
Jatco autoboxes are very good, as fitted to, um, Subaru's etc.

Just saying, like.

:}
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 Wed 29 Jul 15 08:29 
 Ford - Auto gearboxes - Old Navy
Isn't that based on the DAF rubber band technology, as used in snowmobiles and garden tractors.? :-)
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 Wed 29 Jul 15 08:35 
 Ford - Auto gearboxes - Dog
Nay ON, the Jatco's I'm referring to are good ole fuel-guzzling slush boxes.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jatco_transmissions
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 Wed 29 Jul 15 08:38 
 Ford - Auto gearboxes - Old Navy
Sorry, I thought that they used CVTs these days.
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 Wed 29 Jul 15 08:41 
 Ford - Auto gearboxes - Dog
Jatco do indeed produce CVT's these days, but my old jalopy is eight years young.
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 Wed 29 Jul 15 08:42 
 Ford - Auto gearboxes - Old Navy
Ah, nearly run in. :-)
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 Wed 29 Jul 15 08:56 
 Ford - Auto gearboxes - Dog
>>Ah, nearly run in. :-)

Naturalmente Senor, it is a Subaru after all ;-)
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 Wed 29 Jul 15 16:48 
 Ford - Auto gearboxes - mikeyb
Had a focus on hire that was auto so I assume the powershiftbox.

Wasn't overly impressed - for a car with less than 10K on it. Made a few duff changes and thunked through gears on a few occasions - didn't feel like it would be long lived
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 Wed 29 Jul 15 17:36 
 Ford - Auto gearboxes - jc2
Granada/Scorpio of this age should have a A4LD(4 Speed)-earlier models would have had BW35/C3/C4(all 3 speed).
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 Wed 29 Jul 15 18:53 
 Ford - Auto gearboxes - VxFan
>> Jatco autoboxes are very good

As are Aisin-Warner
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 Wed 29 Jul 15 19:43 
 Ford - Auto gearboxes - Dog
>>As are Aisin-Warner

Indeed: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Aisin_transmissions
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 Wed 29 Jul 15 22:35 
 Ford - Auto gearboxes - MD
So apart from jc2 nobody has a clue then! Just saying like.....
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 Thu 30 Jul 15 10:01 
 Ford - Auto gearboxes - Alanovich
>> >> Jatco autoboxes are very good
>>
>> As are Aisin-Warner
>>

Except mine.
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 Thu 30 Jul 15 11:30 
 Ford - Auto gearboxes - Dog
>>Except mine.

Wot, there's an Aisin autobox in your Saab? .. must be down to a lack of fluid changes then?

When I got my Subaru nigh-on 2.5 years ago, I didn't check the fluids before I brought it home, thinking they would do all that (hahaha!) but when I got it home and checked the oil, the stuff was as black as Newgate's knockers and the ATF was brown with a burnt smell (OMFG!)

It came with a years warrantee (more hahaha! but I changed the oil straight away and then changed the ATF about five times so as to completely flush the old stuff out.

The jamjar and the gearbox has been as right as rain (Cornish link) since, and I have no plans to replace the critter any time soon.
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 Thu 30 Jul 15 12:14 
 Ford - Auto gearboxes - Alanovich
I'll reply in the other thread rather than divert this one.
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