Ford and Getrag moving away from Dry clutch Powershift to wet clutch versions and 6F

[madmelon]

Originally Posted by Big Damo

Awesome, here is an automatic car, you can't drive like an automatic car.

I've got a fantastic idea on how to stop all these problems with this automatic not so automatic gearbox:

Gear lever and a clutch pedal.

Which doesn't usually have problems under 100,000km and its taught to a first year apprentice mechanic on how to pull it apart and fix and can be taken to any shop across the country for a clutch when it needs to be replaced.

Someone driving a Fiesta/Focus/Falcon/Insert any common car here is not going to care that their gearbox can change gear in under 10 milliseconds, but they're going to care when their car wont change gear anymore and its jerking at slow speeds.

Then torque converter auto for "automatic" cars.

Leave DCT for those exotic cars until it can put up with "abuse" of people driving it like an automatic car.

Maybe instead of trying to fit 500 gears inside the thing we should stick with the 6 and work on getting it to a stage where it can be driven easily and its actually reliable.

A dry clutch DCT is a far easier thing to disassemble than an AT and a wet clutch DCT isn't much harder. Behind the clutch, they're just a manual transmission really. Some have hydraulic controls, some have electric. This notion that they're extremely complex is absolute rubbish.

In fact, it's easier to remove the whole DCT transmission from the car than a manual is usually- just unbolt the bellhousing and take it off, they're splined onto the pseudo flywheel.


As for seals leaking- that's not a clutch type issue, that's a seal issue. Can happen to any transmission.