You tell 'em Lock. Problem is that for those of us less mechanically minded it sometimes seems as if our service managers have successfully graduated from the school of misleading and deceiving arts. Playing the old game of detect the overcharge gets a bit tiresome.

 

Ah.......
I think the real problem is reving the **** out of it and then putting it into 5/6th


A normal skip on the upshift should be no problem.

Most people I talk to skip second and go sirectly into 3rd. (Normal speeds)

 

I rarely use fifth on the upshift, and occasionally skip it on the downshift. I see no problem with that.

 

Symptom was that it was crunching in when putting it into 5th gear and 5th gear only. Definately was the synchro, I work with mechanics and they diagnosed it before I took it to the dealership.
When skipping gears on down shift you can protect the synchros by 'rev-matching'. On an up shift there is no way to slow the shaft in the gearbox down, thus the synchros perform a "braking operation" creating wear.
Dont necessarily have to "rev the **** out off it", the gearbox was not designed to have gears skipped according to the MA representative.

 

Well it should be...

 

MA should not be allowed to get away with such comments. It's tantamount to "this car was not designed to be driven..." ????

 

Redlining any gear but fourth and chucking straight to 5th, will make it difficult for the car

to mesh.

But For gods sake, the cars manual! You drive it MANUALLY, the way it suits you, even if that means using all 177 kw at 8200 and shifting wherever the hell you like to shift it.

 

I was thinking about this today.. If this gearbox is as weak as MA seem to be saying, then I wonder how it will handle a turbocharged edition of the engine?? It would be great to have some documentation from the MA RX-8 turbo trials..