Fed-Up Ford Mustang Owners File Lawsuit Over ‘Faulty’ Six-Speed Manual Transmissions
Ford's been hearing about this for almost a decade. Now, it's headed to court.
Just months after Ford agreed to pay millions to Focus and Fiesta owners over their faulty PowerShift transmissions, it's again facing a class-action lawsuit — this time for the Mustang's six-speed manual. Drivers of 2011-2020 Mustang and Mustang GT models have long made their problems with the Getrag MT82 gearbox known, and now, they've taken legal action. In the lawsuit, plaintiffs claim the equipment to be failure-prone and blame Ford for not remedying the situation, despite knowing of the complaints for nearly a decade.
The Mustang's MT82 and MT82-D4 gearboxes are alleged to suffer inherent defects that lead to slipping, jerking, and clashing of gears. What's more, the plaintiffs of Gregoria vs. Ford Motor Company say these hiccups persist even after being repaired, citing a poor design that causes shift forks, shift shafts, synchronizers, and clutch assemblies to fail.
