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Chart based on 13 repair trips. The repair cost chart excludes repairs made under warranty, do-it-yourself repairs, and repair trips that include maintenance.
2010 Mercury Milan
Engine not specified
42000 mi
Transmission was 2 quarts low. Upon checking the repairman found that the seal where the drivers side CV joint attached to the transmission was defective.
Transmission serviced per Ford Customer Satisfaction Program 10B15
33700 mi
Transmission failure. Root cause was missing circlip, selling dealer performing TSB incorrectly, resulting in extensive damage to the transmission. A complete rebuild including new planetary gears was required.
Transmission programming updated under warranty to resolve hesitant shifting to Drive
20000 mi
from complete stop trans wouldn't engage for few seconds-when did engage made loud "clunk" & lunged; still feels like it slips; this time they replaced trans clutches and reprogrammed again
23000 mi
dealer installed black box for sporadic problem but would not leave on long enough for problem to occur (recurring transmission problem for which car has been in dealer @ least 9x already). occurrence happened within 5 days of removing box
35000 mi
Transmission issues never resolved.
33000 mi
Flaring during shifting into 3rd gear. Shifts better but continues to Flare when cold, after replacement of shift assembly.
42000 mi
Replaced the left axle
71700 mi
US $100
rough shifting - updated programs in transmission
18000 mi
Transmission was experiencing a slightly rough 1-2 and 2-3 shift. Dealer re-flashed transmission computer.
20500 mi
TRANSMISSION PULLED AND OVERHAULED:with the following part #'s:9L8Z 7B164 B PLATE CLUTCH/9L8Z 7B164 C DRIVE PLATE/9L8Z 7B164 D PLATE ASY -DR/9L8Z 7B442 A DRIVEN PLATE/9L8Z 7B442 E DRIVEN PLATE/BL8Z 7A100 A CONTROL ASY/BL8Z 7L238 A SUPPORT -TRANrn9L8Z
23000 mi
Left front Axle Axle Shaft/CVJOINT replacement.rnAE5Z 3A427 E SHAFT
Wrench light would come on after a period of use, this occurred since car was almost new. Apparently PCM calibration was out of date and the system supposedly related to the transmission needed to be reprogrammed/reflashed.
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