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Ford Fiesta Powershift - rolling back on an incline?

batman2000 · 2017-03-21 10:09:45

We bought a Ford Fiesta 1.0 Ecoboost 2014, powershift (auto) transmission, a couple of weeks ago and I'm still getting used to it. My issue is this: crawling uphill in 'drive' (doesn't have to be a steep hill) I obviously move my foot to the brake if I need to come to a complete stop. If I depress the brake pedal just…

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AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite

27 March 2017 at 1:30PM

batman2000 wrote: »

Actually, if we'd realised in the beginning that this gear box behaved differently then we would probably not have bought the car. As it is, my husband's happy enough with it, and I'm getting used to it ;-).

So the person who test-drove it is happy with it, and the person who's complaining about it didn't test-drive it...

There's a lesson in there somewhere, I think...

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