Transmission Slip Out Of Gear Problems of Ford Freestyle

This has happened almost everyday, if you stop for a short time either long light or pull in some where and take off the wrench comes on and at that point I know the car will not go over 54 miles per hour and acts like it won't up shift out of second gear even though I know its a cvt , this is very frustrating and dangerous , Ford will not do anything about it , until enough people die or get severely injured , I must be lucky though mine happens all the time I know if I shut the free style off and re start it goes back to normal for a while . . . People need to petition Ford . . . . Or start a mass lawsuit against what should be a massive re-call , why is the government not jumping in to force action , like they are now doing with gm . . . . . A 35k car should be built safer, to worried about everyone wearing seatbelts, but not about vehicles that lunge forward or just can't accelerate , the transmission is junk and we pay for it.

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I tried starting the car and when I went to put it into reverse to back up the transmission did not engage. It suddenly lurched backwards and the same thing happened when I put the car into drive. There is about a 10 second delay and then it lurches. One time while driving the car, it slipped out of gear and started to rev the rpm over 3000 it tried to engage the gear but then stalled in traffic. I took the car to the Ford dealership and they hooked it up to a diagnostic machine. They said that there is a delay in building up pressure to go into gears. They said that they did not know what was causing it but they suspected the high pressure filter needed to be changed. That cost was 800 dollars. After changing the filter there was no change. I no longer feel safe driving this car and don't know what to do about trying to repair it. Ford said that you can get used transmission from junkyards but this seems to be a common issue. I did bring it in to the dealership in January to have the throttle body cleaned for the recall. I'm highly agitated that Ford will not stand by their vehicle.

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Sitting at stop light, engine surges and lurches into "fail safe" mode. Car slips out of gear into neutral, and limps to a stop. Has occured multiple times, especially in the heat of summer. Taken car into multiple shops, have never received consistent answer. Answers range from transmission failure to a bad computer, or a sensor.

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