Featured Conversations at a Toyota dealership

DCT? There might be an extended warranty on it; 7yr/100k mile.

 

To be truthful, of the three, my good friends (married couple) who had bought their used Escape three months before the transmission stopped working had also purchased a dealer warranty, and surprisingly the warranty company honored it and they only had to pay $1,000 for it. I doubt that the others had some sort of extended warranty.

The guy I work with whose transmission went out at just past 60k was furious as he said it was just past the warranty and as such he couldn't get the dealer to help at all with the fix. He said that it was going to cost more than what the car was worth, so he traded it in for a brand new Dodge.

 

I wasn't clear. Ford had extended the warranty on some of the Powershift DCTs. The dry clutch ones, but I didn't see anything stating what the Escape had.

 

I'm pretty sure they are the ones with the CVT option.

 

yes, it's called; 'i'm buying a hybrid to save money' syndrome

 

The gen3 Escape was the one that dropped the hybrid. Had a DCT or standard automatic.
Ford Escape - Wikipedia