Toyota Apparently Takes Design Problem as Not Their Worry

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I too have written about a systemic fault with Ford’s dual clutch transmissions at:

Urgently needed Lemon Laws

May I suggest that the concept of lemon be extended out to endemic issues with older cars. We have a 10 year old ‘semi-automatic’ Ford Transit which has had 2x major failure of the dual clutch transmission. The first one was some 5 years ago, and the second this year. The earlier one was before I bought the vehicle, but I had the receipts. When it broke down early this year, I took the vehicle a very large Ford dealership who claimed not to know about the problem. After discussing it with m…

That one doesn’t limp, it locks. It has to be dragged resisting onto tilt top truck.