Changing the fluid might actually make a difference in longevity if that change alone improves the function/feel of the shifts. The change in function/feel could mean the transmission isn’t wearing itself out as fast.

I own a 2015 Mustang GT with one of these delightful manual transmissions. My experiences are probably atypical, both because at 60-something I don’t exactly beat on it as hard as some Mustang owners do, and with only 9000 miles my experiences aren’t long-term.

“That’s it. No more manuals in our cars. It’s not worth the headache.” - Ford, in the near future

+1!!

The duel clutch: Not just a small, fashionable handbag for carrying your 18th century matched pistols any more!

I work as a tech for a major telecom company in the USA and the fleet managers are no longer ordering transits and are getting GM vans from now on. I’m very glad GM is updating their powertrain! not that their is anything wrong with the 6.0V8 that thing is a monster!

You may have gotten a lemon. A company I worked for in college bought a 2006 Express cargo van with about 80,000 miles and it was a blast to drive, especially when the back was empty. The only downside was no AUX port or satellite radio.

I was thinking the same thing. Does this help?

Makes a lot of sense, for cutaway vans.

Yeah, BroncoKong didn’t remove them. He’s the user who posted them and Ford is likely very interested in who he might be and whether his employment might be terminated. They were obviously removed by the website.

Scrolling through internally saying: “want, want, want, would have, want, want, want, want, want, would have, want, want, want, want”.

As someone else pointed out above, there are no transverse bulkheads in this kind of ship that would keep things in place (it’s basically a floating parking garage), so all of the cars are now piled in a huge heap on one side of the vessel. It’s so unbalanced now that there’s no way it could be righted.

For some sense of scale:

Marine Engineer here.

Wow. Stolen tires out in the open like that. It’s the perfect crime, really. 

Remember when Volkswagen used to make some of the best commercials on TV? “Big Day” still gives me chills!