Reconditioned Ford Gearbox

Ford Transit or Ford Fiesta: two completely different gearbox families

The Ford range covers vehicles as different as a 3.5-tonne heavy-duty van and a 900 kg city car, and that diversity is reflected directly in the gearboxes available. On the transmission side, Ford's offering splits into 5-speed manuals — including the IB5 variant, specific to small-capacity petrol engines such as the 1.0 EcoBoost and the 1.2 on the Fiesta, Ka and B-Max — and 6-speed manuals, found on the more powerful diesel engines (2.0 TDCi, 2.2 TDCi, 2.4 TDCi, 3.2 TDCi) and on top-of-the-range petrol versions. There are no automated dual-clutch or automatic gearboxes within this scope: every part listed here is a reconditioned manual gearbox, sold on an exchange basis or rebuilt from the customer's original unit.

Transit diesel: the pitfall of a shared engine capacity across multiple gearboxes

The Transit alone accounts for the majority of the Ford catalogue, with TDCi engines spanning a very long production run (1995 to 2025) and several mechanical generations. The same 2.0 TDCi can take either a 5-speed or a 6-speed gearbox depending on the year of first registration and the engine code: XYJD, M1DA, M2DA or DRFA do not all share the same references. The 2.2 TDCi (codes DRFC, DRFD, DRFE, UFWA) and the 2.4 TDCi (TXWA, QXWA, QXWB) follow the same logic. On the Transit, the engine capacity shown on the registration document is never enough to select the correct part: the engine code stamped on the block is the only reliable starting point.

Fiesta, Focus, Kuga, Ranger: distinct mechanical families

Outside the Transit, the catalogue is organised around clearly separate families. The IB5 5-speed gearbox is fitted to small city cars (Fiesta, Ka, B-Max) with 1.2, 1.1 and 1.0 EcoBoost engines. The Focus, C-Max and Mondeo move to 6-speed units from the 1.6 TDCi (codes XWCA, XWDA) and 1.5 TDCi (XVGA, ABFA) versions onwards. The Ranger 3.2 TDCi (P8FA) and the Kuga 2.0 TDCi (UFWA) use 6-speed gearboxes of a different architecture, designed for significantly higher engine torque. Cross-referencing the model, engine code and year therefore remains essential: a reference such as H1BR-7002-HFJ or AG9R-7002-UCF is specific to one precise configuration and cannot be transferred from one model to another, even where the engine capacity is nominally identical.