Mazdaspeed Forums - Third gear is gone.

While driving beck from my mother's house this past Sunday, I got ran off the road by some douchebag in a BRAND NEW (30day tags) Kia Optima... the "fast" one with boost. He decided, after sitting half in the turn lane and half out for 15seconds, that he wanted the lane back and merged back over when he realized I was on my way around. I got mad and began the relentless fucking-with up to the highway. He got the picture. As we were approaching the highway on-ramp he took off around me and got in the front of our traffic line. When we actually merged on, I punched it and had enough time to wave while shifting between 3-4 and THEN get back on it without him pulling even a fender on me. As we approached the next junction we slowed down to make the sharp left turn (2nd gear) and then were on it again immediately...

...then it happened...

I slammed it home into third and my transmission told me to fuck off. Third gear had taken an indefinite vacation and I was just gonna have to deal with it. Haven't been able to get the car to actually engage third gear once since it happened. Dude had his race face on when he passed me and I'm certain he thought he had just bested me.... ....damnit...

Luckily, my car is BARELY within it's 5yr/60k powertrain warranty, so the transmission is laying in the dealership floor right now waiting for the new parts to come in. By barely, I mean I watched him write down the mileage as 59,267... Someone is looking out for me. All repairs to be paid for my MAZDA, except the shifter fork which was... it needed replacing... I'm beginning to wonder how hard those first 41k were on my car.

As much as I hate that my car has to undergo surgery this week, I hate almost as much that there's a doucher driving his Kia around thinking something that is just simply not true.

...then there's the '11 Mazda6 4cl that they gave me as a loner car... ...'til Friday...damnit...

slow car is fucking slow is fail is lame... is slow.