I just stopped by my very helpful dealer today and talked about my place in the MY2021 build line.
I learned something about the process at Ford, and I'm requesting validation @Granger Ford @Zach@Granger on this information.
First: I was close to missing out on the MY2021 being reservation 30...
Not sure if you should have just one. Might need one in the Bronco too depending on the nature of your adventures.
Also, might be a cheap low jack or Mall crawler location beacon.
So, based on your observations, we can expect about 75k miles before breakdown... Seems about inline for most transmissions.
Although subjective - here is a temp to failure correlation.
source:
http://www.txchange.com/heatchrt.htm
Oh, after enough time you'll see why I quipped about the poll. We seem to have polls on everything. Even polls about polls, and polls about polls regarding polls. It's pretty funny.
Photo of the door jam with the transmission code please.
If the vehicle is running (on) and you have access to the display screen, please pull up the owners manual to the transmission page indicating what the transmission codes represent.
Example (Page 394 of the 2020 Ford Explorer) of the...
https://www.youtube.com/embed/UGwseZ9-U0M
We are using the production transmission... 10R80?
Racing with another transmission and calling it production grade is really low brow.
Needs a corrective statement with new race results using the 10R60 to prove it's ready for the market.
Honestly, we just don't know one way or another until we start driving - and drive more than 8000 miles (per TDS).
What has me is that we were told something by the engineers and experts only to find that it's not. If the 10R60 is good enough to race with, then it's good enough for me to feel...
Seriously not happy. We were lead to believe that it's a 10r80 based on the "racing" configurations and engineer comments.
This sucks.
Thanks for the response.
From the last I heard, Ford is "considering" it. No answer yet... and I'm not surprised either. Still way too early to say anything especially with the inflation pressures we have coming in 2022.