Mine was covered and so was the rental for the 3 or so days it took to fix as they had to order additional parts beyond the CDF Drum, valve body,etc. Bought the warranty for $2400 worth every penny. I always buy new and never get the warranty and sure enough first time I did I needed it.
The issue does *not* seem to correlate to towing or fluid changes or anything else you can do--it's a design flaw that will bite you if it wants to, regardless of what folk wisdom you employ to avoid it. We have no information about the frequency of problems, so we don't know the odds of any particular transmission dying. Mine never really felt all that bad, but it had occasional wonky shifts and every once in a while a crazy hard shift (these felt like something breaking, maybe 3 times in 6 years). Toward the end delayed shifts at startup were maybe getting a little more common, or it could have been my imagination and difficulty remembering how it drove 6 years ago. It mostly ran fine but given the history of the 10r80 I kept up on the TSBs (reflash, got a valve body rebuild, etc). The trouble is that it's not easy to tell how much "occasional weird stuff" matters. In my case when they tore it open there were enough burnt and broken bits that it wasn't worth rebuilding. It never drove like it was about to die, but inside it was probably only a matter of time before it would have stopped working altogether.
I got a new transmission for $100 deductible, no arguments or discussion. The problem is that it depends on the tech who looks at the truck deciding that it shifts bad enough to look at. I'd hoped that since Ford added a diagnostic procedure this would become less subjective, but people are reporting that they can't even get their dealerships to run the test so it seems to still be a crap shoot (whether original warranty or extended).
If you have any shifting issues at all ( even minor) take it in .
Absolutely.
So three things that stand out (good things). Updated CDF drumUpdate:
Got Truck back last night.
The service writer told me to expect some somewhat harsh shifts still while the transmission re-learns what it's supposed to be doing. He was right, but it's not at all as bad as I had expected, and feels much "tighter(?)" than it did when I took it in. I think I'm gonna like it...I WANT to like it...but am gonna try to keep an open mind.
The only thing this cost me was the gas I had to put in the loaner F150 (about $14). What a blessing!
Below are all 5 sheets of my repair paperwork so you knowledgeable guys can see what happened and maybe help me make sense of it.
