Hi all, I have just bought a B-max on 17th May for the wife's cousin who wanted help to buy an automatic to replace her ageing 2005 Focus Ghia Automatic which had been a good workhorse. I did a short test drive and at the time seemed fine. Payment was made using a bank transfer to sellers bank account.
I don't know anything about the B-max's and when I saw it, I loved the design of the doors with no pillar and the size, well generally looks like a nice car.
This is a 2013 1.6 petrol model just out of warranty, has 24k miles on it. It has one of the disabled adapted flip up dual accelerator pedal fitted (anyone removed one of these?) and was previously owned by a disabled person. However, has developed a problem with the car, she says it judders this is a transmission problem and not engine and it feels like it slips. Today she said that there is now a light on dashboard and when I checked with hand book, it shows as Transmission
So I get her to come over and scan the car using a generic code scanner and nothing! no fault codes at all in engine or transmission. Now this is all very worrying as she is a single mother of four and needs a reliable car hence why she spent a lot of money on one of these.
Can you please advise as to what is going on with the transmission issues with these cars as I have started to have a look on internet and it seems that this is a big issue.
Also can I get the warranty extended being the third owner now, and how much is it with Ford?
The light had gone out when she started it up to come over and hence no fault codes, but I very much doubt this will be the last we see of it, I'm as worried as she is especially after I found and looked over the car for her.
Many thanks in advance
Edited by: Sarge
I don't know anything about the B-max's and when I saw it, I loved the design of the doors with no pillar and the size, well generally looks like a nice car.
This is a 2013 1.6 petrol model just out of warranty, has 24k miles on it. It has one of the disabled adapted flip up dual accelerator pedal fitted (anyone removed one of these?) and was previously owned by a disabled person. However, has developed a problem with the car, she says it judders this is a transmission problem and not engine and it feels like it slips. Today she said that there is now a light on dashboard and when I checked with hand book, it shows as Transmission
So I get her to come over and scan the car using a generic code scanner and nothing! no fault codes at all in engine or transmission. Now this is all very worrying as she is a single mother of four and needs a reliable car hence why she spent a lot of money on one of these.
Can you please advise as to what is going on with the transmission issues with these cars as I have started to have a look on internet and it seems that this is a big issue.
Also can I get the warranty extended being the third owner now, and how much is it with Ford?
The light had gone out when she started it up to come over and hence no fault codes, but I very much doubt this will be the last we see of it, I'm as worried as she is especially after I found and looked over the car for her.
Many thanks in advance

Edited by: Sarge