3rd Gear Finally Done Right?

siracergrl

siracergrl

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Civic Type R
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After putting 1000+ miles on the new Si. I would like to say that the 3rd gear issues seen in the 8th have been resolved. In both of my 8th gens I ran into problems with 3rd gear before 500 miles. In our 2010 Accord we also experienced 3rd gear issues before 1000 miles. *knocks on wood* It seems like Honda finally fixed the problem. Anyone else experience otherwise?
 
You're tellin me! I hated 3rd gear. Now it's actually normal
 
I never got honda to fix it. They always said I was crazy. Granted, I'm nuts but not when it came to 3rd gear
 
How about 2nd? I know some had grinding on 2nd
 
All gears have been smooth as butter. High rpm shifts and low rpm have been fine.
 
my 08 SI just started showing signs of it, i'm at 27k, I'm not getting any grinding, but if i'm going to 4th at high RPMs(8200-8400 since i'm flashed) then it comes out of third pretty hard. Almost like it's "popping" out, but only does it when I have the clutch in.
 
after 75k miles I don't have the infamous tranny issues :hiding:

:sheep:
 
clever - have you tried the various synthetic oil (amsoil mtf, etc) to see if they help at all? I know some people swore by them, while others said it was a bandaid.
 
No, I haven't.

I actually was thinking about doing that thought. Figured at 27k miles it may not be time for a transmission flush. However, the car is 4 years old in November, so maybe that will help out. I am going to look into it for sure.
 
Others adjusted the clutch and supposedly fixed it too. There's a thread on a forum about it.
 
TeeEyeVany said:
I had my old 06 civic and it had 130,000 kms on it and all the gears were still good
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the problem they're talking about related to only the SI models. The dx, lx, ex etc didn't have the issue.
 
My hubby had the 2nd gear problem with his r18
 
well, from what I saw, that is not common. Most of the people complaining about gears grinding, popping out, etc were the si owners going from 2nd into 3rd. Most of which complained the most when the rpm's were anywhere near the 8k mark (or higher on the rpm range)
 
webby said:
well, from what I saw, that is not common. Most of the people complaining about gears grinding, popping out, etc were the si owners going from 2nd into 3rd. Most of which complained the most when the rpm's were anywhere near the 8k mark (or higher on the rpm range)
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Mine was a POS even at low rpms hot or cold weather. Mine just didn't like me or whoever drove it.
 
webby said:
well, from what I saw, that is not common. Most of the people complaining about gears grinding, popping out, etc were the si owners going from 2nd into 3rd. Most of which complained the most when the rpm's were anywhere near the 8k mark (or higher on the rpm range)
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funny you say this, I've been in a car that wants to grind going into second (8thgen) but after I seen it I adjusted my shift into it and went it grind free at 8000.

now just today I was tuning my friends 2010 fa5 and I told him to womp on it for the datalog, he tells me nahh his second gear grinds. So I said "WTF it's still new, let me see" so he did it and I didn't hear it but he said he felt it.

So I get in the drivers seat to do the datalog pulls and I was scared to bang second because I didn't want it to grind, he told me to just do it. OK so I take off in first to 8000 and boom into second (aggressive DD shift) and nothing, it felt perfect.

So I shut VSA off and asked if I can powershift, he said sure. So I roll the clutch out, WOT at 8600 no lift shift right into second and no grind.

Did it a few times after that in 1-2-3 fashion and nothing. Pretty much I told him it's good news that it's driver mod and not mechanical mod that's ****** up here.


Also my 2010 Si have never grinded or locked out (other then it being completely my fault) of any gear, and the higher the rev the smoother it goes in (Thats what she said :D )






*** Moral of the story is that Honda manuals chew through MTF so it needs replacing a little sooner then every 30k.

Also when doing a WOT pull keep your hand off the shifter until shift time, in my experience from the propulsion people tug on the shifter when in first gear and pull it out too soon while the clutch isn't depressed all the way. It's better to just push the shifter up into first while throttle then slam into second as opposed to keeping your hand ready to go into second.
 
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