2014 Ford Powershift

godinman

godinman

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I'm looking to spend up to 6k on an estate car. There are quick a few focus estates around 2013-2014 and under 120k miles for that price.

There's one particular example which is 2014 and 101k miles, it's a 2.0 tdci titanium X Powershift I'd quite like an automatic, but is this likely to cost me a lot of money in problems? Anyone got experience of them here?

Aiming to keep the car at least 3 or 4 years and put probably 60k miles on it in that time.
 
make sure the gearbox has been serviced usually every 40k, do not take it on word ,you need to see stamps in the book from reputable/main dealers.
otherwise bills in the region of 2.5 to 3.5k are not unreasonable.
i went from a 2009 mondeo auto (not powershift so no problems 150k) to a 2017c-max titx powershift (45k) again touch wood no problems but i looked for a long time before buying and got a full service history.
daughters galaxy is powershift and has been back 3 times so far, it works fine for a month then comes up transmition limited function. trouble is she loves the car and will not reject it so accepts she will eventually have to pay a large bill:(

by the way the c-max drives lovely only a 1.5 tdci but 60 plus to the gallon on medium runs and still pootling around town in the 40s, comfort wise is excellent .
as far as a normal focus is concerned i have friends (surprisingly) who have had the newer 2014/2016 focus and complained about back problems from the seats ,they seem to support higher back but not lower, if that makes sense.
 
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Thanks for the reply. I'm kinda leaning towards the manual now, I can get a newer/lower mileage for the same money and the idea is to save money with this car, a big bill would scupper that.

Thanks for the info on the seats, I'll see how they feel when I go look at one.
 
I asked this on here somewhere (looking at 2012 era S-Max) and the consensus was to avoid the Powershift (which dashed my dreams of the petrol version).

I did read the versions attached to the larger engines (2.0+) have the wet clutch and are therefore less of a liability, however that's wholly dependent on how they're looked after. At this age a manual will be better, but you need to make sure the clutch and flywheel have been done or aren't soon needing to be done.
 
Cheers folks, manual it is!

I'm actually going to look at a manual Passat estate which has come up locally tomorrow, hopefully it'll do the job but I've got a few viewings to do tomorrow.
 
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