Ford Durashift 5 tronic

[A2Z]

Basically does anyone have a Ford Diesel Auto. The 5 tronic seem to be offered on the new mondeo diesel. Thinking about maybe getting one as the car has to be diesel but getting fed up with the manual.

[Pantscat]

Hello!

I had a 03-reg TDCi 5-tronic Zetec-S... (1 amongst several lease mondeos over the last few years) and I must say that it was pretty good.
Nice smooth change, quite quick, and only lost 5-ish MPG compared with the 5 speed manual.

On the negative side - it had a tendancy to shift down to 4th uncessarily even under gentle acceleration - which got a little bit irritating but my O/H insists that it is because I have a heavy right foot.

Was a joy to drive in stop-start traffic... and I'm contemplating getting one after my 2.2 TDCi goes back in february...

Ant