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Old 09-14-2006, 10:24 AM
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NEEED HELP! 5th and reverse!!

I just picked up my car about 4 days ago, It's a 04 with around 30000 miles on it .
This morning i drove to the beach and back. The whole trip there's no problem with the car, rite when we got back i parked my car and was just playing around with the gears and realized i could not go in to reverse AT ALL. Over the past 3 days it's been fine but now it WILL NOT GO IN. It seems like i hitted a wall or something. so i drove around the block n back and it popped rite in to reverse, so i was like wutevers, and about 2 hours later i try to reverse my car it will not go in again. so i drove around the block and back. it still wont go in and i also realized i could not go in my 5th anymore either. same thing as the reverse, it seems lik ethere's a wall there or something PLEASE HELP~~
Old 09-14-2006, 12:29 PM
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Anybody else had a problem with grinding going into 4th only? My '05 only has 5500 miles on it.
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Originally Posted by chuuuma
I just picked up my car about 4 days ago, It's a 04 with around 30000 miles on it .
This morning i drove to the beach and back. The whole trip there's no problem with the car, rite when we got back i parked my car and was just playing around with the gears and realized i could not go in to reverse AT ALL. Over the past 3 days it's been fine but now it WILL NOT GO IN. It seems like i hitted a wall or something. so i drove around the block n back and it popped rite in to reverse, so i was like wutevers, and about 2 hours later i try to reverse my car it will not go in again. so i drove around the block and back. it still wont go in and i also realized i could not go in my 5th anymore either. same thing as the reverse, it seems lik ethere's a wall there or something PLEASE HELP~~


Possibly your shifter linkage. Check under the consold where it links to the shofter in the car and on top of the trans where it links to the gear selector. Or i know it is a bad clutch if you have problems with reverse and 1st. You didnt say anything aout 1st and you said 5th so its prolly not that. You probably have a linkage issue.




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Anybody else had a problem with grinding going into 4th only? My '05 only has 5500 miles on it.
bad syncro. the grinding is your input and/or output shafts on your 4th gear.
Old 09-14-2006, 01:48 PM
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Also it could have gone further than just a syncro and a fork could have been busted but that you would really have to try and break. The fork helps guide into the gear positioning and the synros help syncronize the up/down shifting through the gears.
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Originally Posted by 2Xrotary
Also it could have gone further than just a syncro and a fork could have been busted but that you would really have to try and break. The fork helps guide into the gear positioning and the synros help syncronize the up/down shifting through the gears.
yea that too, but like you said you really have to be getting physical to be breaking forks. And people usually only get that physical with their gearbox's from 1 -> 2 in cars they are dragging. I dont know anybody that shifts THAT hard into a 4th gear.

Whatever the cause with 5k on the clock i would take it to the dealer to tear it down and fix/replace it. There is no excuse for it that early in the life cycle. You will just continue to chew up your 4th gear and eventually you wont have one.
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WITH 30,000 MILES THE LAST OWNER MIGHT NOT HAVE HAD THE TRANS OIL CHANGED !
sorry about the caps but i have found out the longer the oem fluids stay in the worse the shifting.changed mine to redline and after a few miles it shifts better than ever.(imo)i have 32,000 on mine so far in two years!lol
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I dont know what the service duty is for the rx8 oem tranny fluid but my hyundai manual isnt called for untill 60k

And i very seriously doubt that the trans fluid would cause shifting like he is describing.
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UK Same thing has happened to me!

Originally Posted by chuuuma
I just picked up my car about 4 days ago, It's a 04 with around 30000 miles on it .
This morning i drove to the beach and back. The whole trip there's no problem with the car, rite when we got back i parked my car and was just playing around with the gears and realized i could not go in to reverse AT ALL. Over the past 3 days it's been fine but now it WILL NOT GO IN. It seems like i hitted a wall or something. so i drove around the block n back and it popped rite in to reverse, so i was like wutevers, and about 2 hours later i try to reverse my car it will not go in again. so i drove around the block and back. it still wont go in and i also realized i could not go in my 5th anymore either. same thing as the reverse, it seems lik ethere's a wall there or something PLEASE HELP~~

The exact same thing has just happened to me did you find out what it was? Mine is an 04 with 37k , It would be great to know. Cheers Chris
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