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I do not own one. A friend owns a 2014 50000 miles. It seems that they worked out most of the flaws for the 2015 update. I think they have a leaky seal and will leak out all the fluid. I just notice it taking off at a stop and going uphill. When he’s hard on the throttle it will do it. According to him it’s usually warmed up before it acts up. The whole car will shake slightly. To me it feels like a bad lockup solenoid and it just revs weird. IDK, hopefully someone else knows more.
They are. Most of the problems have to do with the clutches. The rear main seal and/or the transmission input seal can leak and contaminate the friction linings. Ford has a procedure for cleaning them once this happens. My understanding is it’s a bit of a crap shoot… Sometimes it works, a lot of the time it doesn’t. Another issue they had was with clutch chatter and vibration. If it got bad enough, the only course of action was to replace the clutch. Ford at one point was pre-emptively buying back cars with DPS6 transmissions to avoid potential lemon lawsuits. I was told by a room mate of mine (we both provided technical assistance and advice courtesy of Ford) that the key to making the clutches in those cars last for any amount of time was to drive the car like it had a clutch. Once you got the car moving, you had to keep it moving since it didn’t have a torque converter that it could just stall against. (That’s probably not great for your ATF either, but tranny fluid is a lot easier to change out than a clutch lol.) Luckily for you, as far as I know it was only ever used in small cars in the U.S. (basically the Fiesta, the C-Max, and some Focuses) and was never used in the Fusion.
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