Transmission Again!!!!!!!!

[PeaB0dy]

Legal recourse up here is FREE!!!

http://camvap.ca/

I do not SLAM my gears, yes, there are times I drive hard, but this tranny does not need to be slammed to change gears..

I have been driving standard for 10 years, there is a defect in this tranny, they just refuse to even look..

 

[P5bob]

What dealership is this at, so I can beware of them.
I have a buddy who had the same problem with his Sentra V Spec, after the arbitrator, he got it fixed for free.
Dealers are such scammers

 

[PeaB0dy]

Well, the dealershit to avoid is markham, the service manager didn't listen to me at all..

Avante (younge and Steeles) is good, the service manager tryed to get mazda to do it, it was mazda themselves that turned it down.

I need to get my mind on other things so I can think clearly on this so when I do go back and get all setup for the arbitrator, I will have a clear mind.

 

[xelderx]

This is not a driver abuse problem. I'm guilty of just about every bad thing you could do to a car to shorten the life of it's mechanical parts. And I do it on a daily basis. My Pro5 has never been in the shop for a mechanical failure. None, nada, zilch. 90,000 miles is no joke. Don't let Mazda push you around. There are plenty of high milage Proteges out there to back up what I'm saying. Hell I've even pulled a 600-700lbs trailer with mine for 28 hours in one weekend. Good luck with everything in Canada.

 

[PeaB0dy]

Update!!!

After talking to the Regional Manager today, I got mazda to take a look at the tranny. They are going to open up the transmission and take a look. The reason as they explained to me that they are aprehensive is because when they open the transmission the first time there was a lot of wear on the 1st and 2nd gears, of which I had no idea how it happened in 11,000 km, but I do understand there view. They said that they will fix the fork/lockout again, but of there is wear on the gears, they are going to be suspicious of it!

I am taking the car in on thursday, so when they have the tranny open, I am going to take lots of pics, as I am going to see it when it is open.

I just hope all goes well, as first and second still feel notchy after 19,000 more km (I just passed 30,000 today).

 

[TurfBurn]

Any word yet?

 

[PeaB0dy]

Well,

The Tranny was opened up, and the lockout was broken again.

Reverse has some excessive grinding, due to hitting reverse while the car was going forward, at a high rate of speed.

1st and 2nd looked good. Just reverse, and the lockout. I looked at the piece, it's a tiny little piece of metal (pic attached). I have to talk to the regional manager, they may and try to get me to sign a release, of which I wont. The metal for the lockout looks like it has a high carbon content, making it harder, but possibly to hard, and more brittle. there are no signs of where anywhere else on it to show that it was being forced (no dents where the actual shifter come in contact with it, no signs of wear..)

I will find out monday.

Sorry about pics size, was to lazy to resize.

1st is lockout attached to magnet
2nd are the gates where the shifter runs through, and where the lockout goes to and broke from (where the spring is).
3rd are my gears.. Reverse are the only ones that are straight. Then the order from left to right are 1st, 5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd (they are the agled gears). The gear on it's own on the left is the intermediary gear for reverse, and on the top part are the other set of gears (forget the order.)

4th, pic of reverse straight on (it's the straight gear). This one is damaged because of accidental slipage @ high speeds, because lockout is broken.

Edit " I added a 5th pic of the gates and the lock out!"

So this time 1st, 2nd, and the synchro's and forks are all good, just the reverse gear and lockout.. I will get better pics of the lockout/fork tomorrow.

I even paid a guy from mister transmission to come and look @ it, he says he has no idea how it broke, but it was a crappy piece, and that mazda may have some issues.

I am gonna take it with me to school too, to look @ it with a microscope, and talk to a metalurgist.

I love it when I have really big guns in my pocket, but potentially Mazda can still give me the big (fu) .

I love this car, except for all this s***. But if I need to, I will just find a tranny from an MP3, or Speed, and put it in, cause I want to keep this car. I have a grand am with a V6 rental, and the only nice thing about it is, that a V6 has nice pickup, and it has variable intermittent wipers. The P5 is one of the most connected to the road cars I have driven, and I have driven a afair share of cars.

Well, off to live life, and see what happens, good thing it's only money, and not my health (which I was letting it get to me, but no more..)

Man does the smell of tranny fluid make you sick..

 

[Little Beavis]

Wow, I have no idea how you broke that piece! Good luck.