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9.6
really awful- Typical Repair Cost:
- $4,640
- Average Mileage:
- 105,200 miles
- Total Complaints:
- 26 complaints
Most Common Solutions:
- replaced transmission (15 reports)
- not sure (9 reports)
- rebuild transmission (2 reports)
transmission problem
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A D V E R T I S E M E N T S
I bought a 2005 Ford Freestyle with 137000 miles on it. It was making a helicopter type noise and mechanic said it was the transmission going to fail. He was right, 3 months later my wife was on the highway and the wrench light came on and the car stopped moving. Had it towed to my garage and found out transmission went bad completely. It had metal shavings in the pan filter. Got our income tax and bought a new transmission from a parts dealer for 3800 dollars, plus new filters for pan, trans lines and cartridge filter installed trans and added the proper amount of cvt fluid at 10 dollars a quart.
Within 6300 miles the new trans started to slip in drive on inclines and wrench light and check trans message will come on. Checked fluid, it is 100 % on the line on dip stick but transmission is not working the way it should. Called Ford dealer for some information and could not get any answers as to what I need to do to fix this problem.
As a mechanic for 37 years working on all makes and models of vehicles, this is the worst vehicle I have ever tried to repair. I own all 3 of the American companies top brands, GMC, DODGE, and FORD. I am very upset with the Freestyle as there is no replacement parts available to repair the transmission to not fail.
Ford should recall and repair all Freestyles, Ford 500, and Mercury Montigos, as they all run the cvt transaxle and all fail with no warning.
- rconstant ii, laconia, US