Have been looking at a 2006 Fiesta ASM issue, it's a driving school car for Auto licence.

Basically, once warm (it's fine for the 1st 10 mins of driving) and in auto mode about 1 in every 5 attempts, when it's shifting from 2nd to 3rd it doesn't engage 3rd straight away,it comes out of 2nd then is inbetween gears, takes a few seconds then it will eventually drop into 3rd.

If you use the manual mode I've never had it play up in that, just the auto mode.

I've done the transmission learn procedure in IDS but problem remains.

Thing I can't get my head round is I spoke to Ford technical about it, they suggest the 3rd/4th gear selector fork is damaged (bent) in the gearbox.

Surely if the selector fork is bent, it's bent all the time, and as the manual mode uses all the same mechanisms to shift the gears, it should play up in that too, not just the auto mode?

I'm a bit reluctant to advise a box strip on it.

Unless anyone else has had same issue and it was a selector fork issue?