wireaddict

I'm an RX-8 noob... have an '04 and am not having the described rough shifting but my gear box whines like a school bus. I would expect it to be much softer, but I can barely hear my engine over the gear noise... is this a synthetic oil fix?

Targatheory

I went to my local dealer about my own transmission problems. Grinding during high RPM shifting, sounds like twisting metal sometimes. Since the car is not under warranty at 70000 miles, instead using a third party offered by another dealership from which I bought my car, this local dealer will not honor it. So he said I had to pay 110 for them to "drive around" my car, then if they really think theres a problem, they would open up the case for another couple hours of labor at 110per/hour. At that point, they would ask me whether or not I wanted any problems (if at all found) to be fixed. Yes, means more hours of labor, plus the cost to "close" the case. No, means that they would just "close" the case without doing anything, but would still charge me the 110per/hour just to re assemble the damn thing. Screw dealers! What can I do, this really is a big a problem but I don't have the money at all to wager on the hope that they find a problem, and even more, don't determine the problem to be from mechanical failure.

Jason Saini

Where are you located? If you're in TX, we can take a look at it... I rebuild these all the time for racing. I can do a rebuild for less than an dealer for sure. It sounds to me that internal work is necessary, unless the clutch just needs to be bled.

TeamRX8

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Jason, I think you need to relocate out to the Reno-Fernley track in Nevada

fahrfegneugen

I just bought an '04 RX-8 with 45k about two weeks ago and there has been so much snow that I couldn't drive it too much. However, after driving it today I discovered that no matter what I would do, besides driving slow, it would lightly grind into 4th at high and low rpms, after coming out of third. It was bad in 3rd but I wait and let the rpms drop and it would go in smooth, that technique did not work for 4th though.

I guess my question is, is it me or is it the transmission? I have been reading your posts here and it sounds like you have the same stories as me. Of course, I have had quite a few people tell me how great these cars are, which makes me think it is me perhaps. I have been driving a Subaru for the past two years anyways, jk.

Otherwise, I guess I will go buy the extended warranty...

Jason Saini

What, Mark... no "I suck at the intar-web" .gif for me? Just trying to help out! :P I may need to make Team MER a vendor and offer trans rebuild services. Hmmm... who'd want theirs done?

TeamRX8

iTrader: (25)

lol, more like I need a "trying to beat Jason is teh suxorz" gif for myself

I don't seem to do well against drivers named Jason ...

two of these now: https://www.rx8club.com/showpost.php...34&postcount=1

third trans is now grinding on the 2-3 upshift

crapdragoon

https://www.rx8club.com/showpost.php...1&postcount=27


anyone have a problem like that before?

MtRandall

i have an 05 AT with 30,000 miles and on 2 sepret occasions it wouldn't change out of 2nd and the check engine light came on only one of the times i wasn't driving it hard (flooring it) but i was on the gas passing a car on the highway, the beep came on when 2nd reached the red line so i check to see if i was in slap stick but i wasn't so i left off the gas fully and at about 5k RPM it finally went into 3rd and 4th with no problem and drove fine since then then bout a month later it did it again but i wasn't on the gas as hard nor did the check engine lite come on...my car also idols pretty hard at a stop every now and then its a day by day thing with the idol problem though...i also flooded mine once and had to change the plugs and a hose

crapdragoon

ok so i took my car to the dealer and they said they are going to rebuild the tranny =/

the guy said it could take anywhere from a week to 3 weeks time.

they wouldnt give me a loaner car 'cause im not 21 yet so im going with my father on monday (he cosigned for me) to get a car.

fahrfegneugen

What are they charging?

crapdragoon

for the repair? nothing

fahrfegneugen

Cool, I didn't know if it was under warranty or not.

TeamRX8

iTrader: (25)

if they're rebuilding it at the dealership you can be assured that it will break again

crapdragoon

yeah... i kind of figured that

crapdragoon

UPDATE!

So the dealer called me on Monday, and told me they took it all apart , and realized the extent of the damages, finding alot of metal shavings , because a (i can't remember what he said exactly) plate got loose and just tore everything up inside.

So they are replacing the transmission with a new one

And I should get my car back by Friday! yay.

bernsteinjb3

my car is a 2006 rx8....... at 74 miles they replaced the transmission......now at 17000 miles second gear is doing the same thing again the dealer tells me they have not had this problem before.... bull,,,,,now if i want to fix this problem i will have to pay for the repairs myself....it seems mazda has had this problem alot..why should all of us have to pay help.....jb....

altiain

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Hey Jason,

How much would MER charge for a rebuild? My second gear is starting to grind pretty consistently on high rpm 1-2 upshifts. I've bled the clutch several times and Mazda recently replaced the slave cylinder, but the problem still persists.

The car is still under warranty, but I'm wondering if I'd be better off paying MER to rebuild it properly than letting the dealer repair it and stave off the inevitable.

lucanhookup

im at 10k miles now and when i shift into second after 7500rpms it grinds into the gear...my tranny has been replaced before becuase of the same problem except that it would grind at any rpm instead of just high rpms...WTF

huzer21

iTrader: (1)

2nd gear problem here as well. The first time iI went in, I got the "could not replicate, feels fine!" answer. I'm going in Tuesday and sitting in the car with them when it gets driven. I've got 35k on my 04. At this point, I'm not confident the dealer is going to do anything for me.

fahrfegneugen

That's too bad because it takes a lot of time to go to the dealer and leave the car.

When they went to replicate my problem they said they couldn't get the car into first gear when they got it back to the shop. So, they just called it an "internal failure" and put a rebuilt transmission in. I am curious now how long this one will last...

moete87

iTrader: (1)

My car is in the shop right now as we speak with the 2nd gear grinding at high rpms..****..even at low rpms! They had to replace my 4th and 5th gear syncros this past fall and now they told me this past week they need to do a somewhat tranny rebuild..wtf? I just want my car back!

Also, its leaking tranny fluid..twice its been in the shop because of that in the past 1.5 weeks..anyone know whats up or what I should look for? Maybe they are filling it up too much?? Not sure!

fahrfegneugen

I don't know why they don't just give you a new one.

MtRandall

been way to many problems with this car lol...kinda off the subject but when i flooded my engine bout half a year back when i was up in PA my g/f's dad knew a mech so after about 30 min of trying to start it we just decided to have it tow to his shop and seen the plugs were soaked blah blah and finally de floddded it he had to call his freind that was a mazda tech b/c for about 3 hours with new plugs he couldn't get the car started the tech said yeah common problem blah blah about being turned off cold (my fault ) but he also said hey i'd try to sell the car honestly and get somthing else because of the 5w20 oil that is required for the non void of your warrenty is actually really bad on the cars engine and an averge of every rx8 04-present has an engine life of 30,000 miles b/c mazda had to use that oil grade to meet EPA's standerds for gas milage but every where else in the world the manual says to use 5w30 at lest and supposedly average engine life for the rest of the world is 100,000-150,000 miles with no problems and advertised by mazda of a 200,000 plus engine is way of from our average

and no the engine is the highest number replacement under warrenty lol but not everyone has a manual and i personally don't have any problems with my tranny i have an AT though

fahrfegneugen

There is a lot of debate about the whole oil thing, check out some other threads.