cold shifts are very rough

[AZDJedi]

Howdy,

I have 12,000K on my Mazda3, but cold weather starts have only appeared in the last month or 2, so I have no other comparison points.

I asked a friend who has 24K on hers and she said she doesn't get rough shifts at all.

Does anybody else experience this?

Bodi

 

[Bluesv]

yeah, very harsh here too (rant) ,I will talk to the dealer on my next oil change, they have to replace/check that airbag sensor, so maybe they will change the fluids in the transmision, but thats a big maybe, will have to wait and see

 

[willy65000]

Howdy,

I have 12,000K on my Mazda3, but cold weather starts have only appeared in the last month or 2, so I have no other comparison points.

I asked a friend who has 24K on hers and she said she doesn't get rough shifts at all.

Does anybody else experience this?

Bodi

Do things improve after the car is driven for ten or fifteen minutes? If so, it's probably normal. Every manual i've owned hade done this. I have noticed this a little as well on my M3 but the temp in Minneapolis hasn't gone below 30 yet.

 

[Mikey444]

20000 kilometers here, and the first 2-5 shifts from 1st to second are still rough.

 

[MazdaDryvr]

Mine goes crunch crunch in the cold.

 

[mazda3zoom]

ive got 26,000 miles on my car and ive noticed the same thing.

 

[Zoom Zoom Zoom]

For all of you having a hard shift with your vehicle's transmission, are you driving automatic or manual?

 

[AZDJedi]

I'm driving an automatic.

I took it into my dealer and they said that the Mazda Hotline doesn't have a fix, but they have a workaround.

They disconnected my battery and held the brake down for 3 minutes, which apparantly resets the transmission chip, or something like that.

My shifts are much smoother now, so we'll see what happens over the winter, if it returns or whatever.

Also, anybody out there with the tiptronic: do you down shift with it?

 

[Bluesv]

ok, its autostickshift, and no i dont use it too often, mostly Im too busy looking at my radar detector and for cops, hehe

 

[Grey Ghost]

I'm driving an automatic.

I took it into my dealer and they said that the Mazda Hotline doesn't have a fix, but they have a workaround.

They disconnected my battery and held the brake down for 3 minutes, which apparantly resets the transmission chip, or something like that.

My shifts are much smoother now, so we'll see what happens over the winter, if it returns or whatever.

Also, anybody out there with the tiptronic: do you down shift with it?

AZDJedi,

How's your tranny doing in the cold weather since the dealer reset? Mine seems to be getting worse. It's a real pain having to lift the throttle between shifts of the automatic before something warms up. Anyone know if different fluids will help or is it an electrical/logic/management issue?

FYI, I use the manual shifting on the auto and it seems to work pretty well, I just wish for a little higher shift points when down-shifting.(To allow the down-shift)

Grey Ghost

 

[AZDJedi]

Hey Ghost, nice to see you, lol .

My shifts are actually not bad. Occasionally I get the odd roughness, but nowhere near wut they use to be.

 

[benjz]

Harsh 1-2 shift on auto tranny..

Dear Mazda3 owners,

I've just got my 2005 mz3 for a few months (as the first Mazda experience ever). After 4k miles on it, I started getting this problem (now, 6k miles). It shifts very rough from gear 1-2, even I'm driving it in the Summer (temp: 70-90 degrees at this time). As you might know the problem is not consistent.. It seems to shift normal again after engine gets warmed up or sthing like that. What should I do now? This is so frustrating for a new car like this.

Please advise? Thanks a bunch, any response is greatly appreciated.
Benjz

Howdy,

I have 12,000K on my Mazda3, but cold weather starts have only appeared in the last month or 2, so I have no other comparison points.

I asked a friend who has 24K on hers and she said she doesn't get rough shifts at all.

Does anybody else experience this?

Bodi

 

[AZDJedi]

Update time...

In April (366 days after I drove the car off the lot) I took my car to Dufferin Mazda to see if *they* (as opposed to my selling dealer in Whitby who just reset the computer chip) could do anything about the rough shifts.

Without batting an eye they said they were gonna replace the entire transmission. I'm like, ok, cool! And it was only gonna take a day. I figure they were using my car as a guinnea pig. I'm cool with that. (Here's hoping they use me as a test sample for a new MP3 player, the current stock model SUCKS :-| )

I saw the price on the computer screen: $10,000. TEN THOUSAND. Sh!t, they might as well give me a new car for that price .

Things seemed ok for a short while, but it still shifted not all that great. It wasn't the rough shifts that I was used to, especially the whip-lashed ones, but it was still not as smooth as from 3rd to 4th: imperceptable. Perhaps cuz it's only a $16,000 car, who knows. My next car will be the 760Li, thank you very much.

Occasionally, as you report benjz, I get slightly rougher than normal shifts from 1-2, even nowadays in this 223432423 degree weather (Toronto).

So, not sure what my next step is...I'll wait until winter and see how things go. By the time I get this thing solved, my 4 year lease will be up and I'll be putting a cash down payment on my BMW (dance).

 

[BlueMonsta]

u on the tm3 board by any chance?
at least its better...
10K? i thought its 2K with install...

 

[AZDJedi]

u on the tm3 board by any chance?
at least its better...
10K? i thought its 2K with install...

wut's tm3? I suppose that'd be somehting like TorontoMazda3, yes?

I dunno if I am. If I am, I havn'et monitored it since I bought my car and was doing searching of the re.

well, I'm just being dramatic with the 10K. That's what I saw on the screen, and when I asked the secretary girl if that was the price, she said yes. I don't know if it's really the price with 100%ness. she had big tits, I had to ask something...that's all I know for sure

 

[AZDJedi]

It's shifting rough AGAIN.

Gonna call Dufferin Mazda today and see wut suggestions they have.

So it's not *just* a cold thing, cuz it's clearly the middle of summer.

Wonder what I can get for my problems....suggestions? I *should* ask for something, I'd feel ungreedy if I didn't, lol, and that's not the american way.

 

[goldwing2000]

I *should* ask for something, I'd feel ungreedy if I didn't, lol, and that's not the american way.

But... ummm... you're not in America. (scratch)

 

[ZoomVT]

actually he is in America.
dont meant to be an a*****e but i just really dislike when people refer to the US as America, like it is the only country in the continent. Prob reading to much into it but i still dislike it.

 

[goldwing2000]

The continent is North America, to be distinguished from Central America and South America.

I think it's a pretty fair assessment that the three American continents (ok, two and a half) do not share enough culture to be able to have a common feature that could be called an "American way".

The USA is commonly referred to as America, especially in a reference to "the American way", as it was used below. It has nothing to do with thinking that we are the only ones on the continent. Since "America" is actually part of the name of the country, it's just a shortened version that's easier to say than The United States of America (usa) every single time you refer to the land between Canadia and Mexitaco.

I'm also pretty sure that most Canadians don't care enough for their southern neighbors to want to be lumped together with them under a title such as "American". I've heard Europeans refer to Canadians as Americans but only instead of their favorite term of "Yanks" for denizens of the North American continent. I have never heard a Canadian refer to him or herself as an American or even a North American.

 

[AZDJedi]

As the OP, I think I'll jump in this slowly boiling water.

First off, it was meant as a joke, so let's not look too far passed that, or too deep into the meaning of life.

Secondly...I pretty much refer to USA and Canada as America. Japan and Switzerland are pretty much the same too; as are Earth and Mars, a dirty mirror and a clean mirror, etc.

When it comes to matters as such, it's only mental concepts that can *really* be seperated...That is, humans act the same universally, well globally to be more conceptually specific.

Yes, variances exist, for example I don't think you'd find the same eating habits, or driving habits, or gun habits from culture to culture, but I can guarentee you that if a US citizen is a greedy bastard toward his food, then a Canadian citizen is greedy toward being polite, and a Swiss citzien is greedy toward being neutral. Just examples, I'm no cultural expert, just pointing out a human trait.

We're WAY off the original point, slipping from 1st to 2nd, but I didn't want this post to turn into a who's worse: Canada or USA. We're both horrible, lol.