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Originally Posted by faffi
My Mondeo had a 5-tronic, which I'm led to believe is the same as the Geartronic.
Dislikes:
- Slow reaction compared to an old style automatic, takes forever to change gear. That goes for normal shifts in general, but kick-down in particular.
- Cannot skip gears in kick-down mode; sit in 5th and stomp on the loud pedal and it's 4th, 3rd and eventually 2nd gear. Old school autoboxes usually jumps directly to the required gear.
- It is actually possible to come to a compete stop and take off again without the box shifting into 1st gear until you've moved 10 yards. Very annoying.
- Inefficient. Consumption in city mode worse than traditional autos and much worse on the motorways compared to trad autos with lock-up.
- More compex due to electronics that also tries to read your driving style - and since I drive either hard or very gentle, but rarely in between, it's constantly confused as in too lazy the odd time I want sport performance - that can lead to failures and certainly more cost over time.
In theory, functionality from the 5-tronic should be superior to the sort of "plain" autoboxes we've had for decades, but in actual use it is inferior in virtually every way IMNSHO.
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Doesn't sound like it is the same as Geartronic - my box doesn't display any of those problems. My only real grumble with the Geartronic is that the torque converter won't feed in full torque unless the revs are over 2,500.