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I'm not sure I follow. I'm not worried about when the mileage is less than 100k mi, due to the warranty. I'm looking to buy used at 45k and put another 100k on it in 5 years. I don't want to have to sell it before it goes out of warranty at 100k. I suppose I could take the chance that the transmission fails and gets replaced before 100k or if it doesn't fail before 100k, reassess at that time (based on more community data). Speaking of community data, I see that the failure tracking thread hasn't been updated in about a year. The fusion thread hasn't been updated in 6 months. I'm obviously new to the forum, is there still a lot of talk about this failure? Maybe I'm making a mountain out of a molehill...

The appropriate way to consider the probability of realizing a transmission failure would be to divide the number of affected vehicles by the total number of susceptible vehicles in a mileage category (above 100k mi). Our challenge is that the number of cars with greater than 100k miles is only a very small portion of the population. Therefore, from that dataset, we cannot make any justifiable assertions that the transmission issue will decline in probability above 100k miles. The typical MY13 C-MAX won't reach 100k miles until 2019 or so.

+3 Golfer, Thank you! That's very helpful. I concur that it looks like the only way to avoid this risk is to get a MY16 or an older one in which the transmission was replaced after 8/15/15. Is there any real way to know how pervasive the transmission issue is? I don't know how the car I'm looking at was driven (it's at a Ford dealer) so I don't know if it was a lot of highway miles. I think my only chance of knowing is by asking the dealer if they were the ones that (potentially) swapped it and have it in their service records. Otherwise, I don't know why I would touch this car with a potentially huge service bill looming.

I got the build date for the updated transmission from this thread: http://fordcmaxhybridforum.com/topic/5288-mileage-and-build-date-for-ecvt-that-have-failed/ Jun 17, 2014

I'm looking to buy a used 2013 C-Max SEL with 45,000 miles. I am concerned about the transmission failures on cars built before Jun 2014. I plan to drive it at least another 100,000 miles so any remaining or additional warranty would not cover my expected ownership period. I do not want to buy a ticking time bomb and dump many thousands of dollars into a replacement transmission at a later date. Is there a way to check the car to see if the transmission has been replaced? Is there maybe a different part number or some other indication? I haven't read about any other potential "gotchas" but would certainly be interested in hearing advice from anyone on purchasing an early C-Max. Thank you!