Re:How America lost its love for the stick shift
by kenhwang on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @05:33PM
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Most modern DCTs are wet clutch which should last more or less forever. Ford/Volvo's dry clutch DCTs probably still require regular clutch plate replacements. Torque converters pretty much last forever on infrequent fluid changes or the whole unit fails.
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Re:How America lost its love for the stick shift
by opencl on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @06:57PM
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Ford's dry clutch DCT (used only in the Focus and Fiesta, all of the other Ford/Volvo models are wet clutch) is total junk and you're lucky if the clutch lasts more than 30k miles. They lost a class action lawsuit over it.