greenbean-
I'm more than willing to put up with the "cold-shift" problem, (i.e., really stiff going from first to second and so on on cold days) that seems to be common to almost every Contour with the MTX.
However, there are a few of us SVT owners...maybe more than a few...who have this really annoying problem of a car that just will not go into either first or reverse from a stop, at least not without a lot of wrestling and forcing with the shift lever.
I have no idea what causes this, and it seems Ford doesn't have much of a clue either, so they just keep replacing transmissions.
