2018 GT Surge and Hesitation

[CDM77]

I visited my dealer and they let me drive a used 2018 5.0 manual mustang to compare to mine. The throttle surge is present, but not as bad, on that one as well. The clutch was a lot smoother though. We did discuss the possibility of trading mine for another, but it will be a huge financial hit to do that. It's still a possibility, but might not be the smartest decision.

Now my throwout bearing is starting to squeak on a cold start. It goes away after pressing the clutch a few times, but it's another problem that popped up.

I have an appointment in two weeks to have the clutch (hopefully) replaced. I told the service manager that I want to see the clutch and flywheel once the transmission is pulled and he has no problem with that. I will have them once again check into the hesitation while it's there.

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[michail71]

The automatic certainly doesn't suffer from that issue. We almost have the opposite problem. Even in normal driving mode it likes to kick down very aggressively. I've had a few times I've unintentionally swung the back end out.