MS3 tranny really sucks

[Olestra]

yeah he said that in his post

I usually let my car warm for ~ 1-2 minutes or so and do the same to my shifter (although I usually just wiggle back and forth in neutral)

Hehe, yeah I guess that's a habit that I have too. My remote start is set to 15 minutes (that's the minimum) but I usually try to get in at around 5-10 minutes. By then my shifter is pretty smooth.

If I'm in a hurry and didn't have time to warm my car up, I just end up shifting slow. Sometimes I get impatient and grind my gears up. =)

 

[Funkycoldg]

Yeah I have let mine warm up (sometimes for 10min) but it still does it till I have actually driven it for alittle. I have no clue why. Anyone else getting loud noises form the shocks and what not. I let my car warm up and I still hear that sound for awhile. It seems like the car is really having trouble in the coldcold temps.

~John

 

[chaos4]

I have no shifting problems with my MS3. 3000 miles since Dec 27th delivery. Temps running near zero the past week.
Suggest you calmly tell the dealer of the problem and ask if he can check the linkage adjustment.
Good luck!

 

[ClickHeRe]

It's -40C here with the windchill and yes it's hard to get going the first few shifts in the morning. Just don't push it like crazy. After a few shifts it's back to smooth as butter. The only "grinding" I have is from first to second gear most of the time.

I'll be putting synth gear oil next week (Amsoil SVG 2000 series) and when it's a bit hotter I'll change my shifter bushings to the new TWM I got last week.

Next in line will probably be the AWR mounts.

 

[mcb]

its been under -10c all last month and few days at -40c and i dont any problem with gears grinding... i usually let it warm for 30 sec then go.

just dont push it trough gears. Let the syncs do their work.

i get a lot of noise from the shocks too when its cold. When you run the car for about 5 min everything is back to normal.

Some dealers around here claimed that like the rx-8, the ms3 its not a ''winter'' car. But, they dont know a jack about the car, they never tried it

 

[Damian]

I don't have problems getting the car into any gear. No grinding or anything similar. However, it just isn't a very good shifter. I think that's the problem more than anything. If you've driven a BMW, VW, Honda - hell, even my P5 - They all have smoother, more accurate shift linkages that just go where they should go and they feel like putting a hot knife through butter. The MS3 shifter is sloppy and rough, but not so awful as to be unbearable. Perhaps some adjustments could be done to improve the performance, but I honestly don't know.