Federal Fraud Investigators Demand Ford Documents And Emails Back to 2010

U.S. Department of Justice criminal fraud investigators have demanded documents related to the transmission used in about 2 million Ford Fiesta and Focus vehicles sold throughout this decade, the Free Press has learned.

The Free Press obtained a subpoena issued in April in Case No. 126 before a District of Columbia grand jury requesting “all documents, communications and electronically stored information” relating to the company’s actions involving the DPS6 PowerShift transmission dating to 2010. It asked for material that might show whether the company knew the transmissions were defective and couldn't be fixed or that it lied to federal safety regulators.

Read Article

MDarringer - 11/7/2019 6:54:43 PM

+2 Boost

Or as people at the dealer level called it: "PowerShit". When it operated, it was a terribly rough transmission and it broke easily and often. Pure garbage. The 8 Speed in the new Escape is very nice.

CANADIANCOMMENTS - 11/7/2019 7:24:38 PM

0 Boost

#toyota

MDarringer - 11/7/2019 8:32:52 PM

+1 Boost

Says the EV hypocrite.

valhallakey - 11/8/2019 1:08:53 AM

+3 Boost

If they did what they are accused of they should be prosecuted and put in jail.

TomM - 11/8/2019 7:18:34 AM

+2 Boost

In the last 30 years or so - the WORST offender in the market place was the E40D Ford transmission - that not only failed often - but when finally fixed - the "Kit" of just the "new" parts that fixed the problem was over $1500 PLUS the regular parts to rebuild the transmission.

What Ford did was take the longest Heaviest Automatic Trans to date - and support the Mainshaft with BUSHINGs rather than the Bearings it needed. Har Part damage was extensive - and the New parts that modified the internal parts to use bearings were often sold out for weeks. It was not something you could work around either. The industry KNEW that without the updated parts - it would fail again and quickly. WHen you add in the problems they had with TOrque Converter Clutch Activation - $4000 plus rebuilds were not uncommon. This transmission replaced the C-6 Ford AUtomatic that rarely failed and could easily be rebuild for less than $1000.

To my knowledge - they never had a class action suit then.

Toyota also had Automatic Transmission Problems early on as well.