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I am planning to buy a used Ford Focus 2012 manual transmission. Do I have to worry about any issues which happened with the automatic DCT transmission? Do manual models face any other problem?
By buying a manual Focus, you neatly sidestep the biggest problem with this car, that of the perennially faulty DCT transmission. As a rule of thumb, the advice is to never buy a Ford with this transmission, purely because its failure is a question of when, not if.
The irony is that the rest of the car was actually pretty reliable, so as long as the recall for a potential fuel leak caused by a blocked carbon-canister has been attended to, you stand a good chance of buying a reliable car.
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