I love my car but...

[2011speed]

14 k miles on my shit with like 50 track passes all ffs and I'm on stock motormounts still. Replaced fluid with fomoco at like 4 k miles.

No issues so far knock on wood.

I have gotten the 2-3 grind before but as long as I shift half a second slower. Still fast, I'm good. I believe of u have ffs enabled it helps a lot

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[Caboose]

Iggy I know I've mentioned it to you before, and I'll say it again. Get the Ford fluid!! Start with the cheap fixes first!!

[ruthless013]

this car has had its share of factory fluke trannies, but as i have posted before, i swapped the factory fill out at 15k miles for oem mazda fluid and it cleared up my issues. i have the motorcraft fluid in my miata and it works well also.

at the very least, try the oem fluid. if it doesnt correct or improve your issues, you cant still go to the dealer and wont be told you used the wrong fluid.

[Tokay444]

Try the free option first and tune the goddamn shifter.

[MS3G35]

22K miles on my car, no grinding issues ever...Don't go around spreading shit because you need a driver mod.
I'll recommend this car all day long.

[Dark_Signal]

^^^LOL'ED^^^

[iggy097]

Originally Posted by MS3G35 22K miles on my car, no grinding issues ever...Don't go around spreading shit because you need a driver mod. I'll recommend this car all day long.

I could definitely see how the hundreds of people in all of the Mazda forums and I'm sure the thousands of people who aren't members of any forums who have this same problem all must have a fail driver mod. Makes complete sense to me.
I retract my op with your enlightening response.

[helmetface]

Originally Posted by MS3G35 22K miles on my car, no grinding issues ever...Don't go around spreading shit because you need a driver mod. I'll recommend this car all day long.

Don't be ignant'

Iggy is looking for help.



What the fuck have you contributed?

[Payne Racing 67]

Well, now my fucking 5th is grinding out of nowhere if i shift at high RPM's. And i know how to drive. I adjusted the shifter and Im going to swith to the FoMoCo fluid and see if it does the trick


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[Easter Bunny]

I just switched to the ford fluid tonight, i wasnt having any issues with the transmission but i hit 30k miles and thought that it would be a good time to change it while i was changing the oil.

After changing the fluid i pulled out of my driveway and knew as soon as i shifted to second that i had made the right choice, everything was better and i didnt thing anything was bad.

My advice for you is to take the following steps to remedy your problem

1. Adjust the shifter linkage...it costs nothing but time, you could have accomplished this already in the time you have spent in this thread.

2. Change the fluid everyone is not exagerating when they say this is the best thing you can do for the tranny... its $60 for 3 quarts, pretty cheap in my book.

3. I dont know what your mods are but a rear motor mount will help a ton as well.


When you go to change the fluid (which i would do even if tuning the shifter helps) you will need the following things.
24mm socket
funnel with a long skinny pourer.

If you have an SRI take the filter off to fill the oil. the drain is behind the plastic undertray you should be able to leave the tray on. when you take out the drain plug it will spray all over the control arm so dont take the plug out all of the way, loosen it and let it drain slowly (ask me how i know)

Originally Posted by Payne Racing 67 Well, now my fucking 5th is grinding out of nowhere if i shift at high RPM's. And i know how to drive. I adjusted the shifter and Im going to swith to the FoMoCo fluid and see if it does the trick

I had the occasional high rpm 5th gear grind, i was attributing it to driver error, I can update you with the results of changing the fluid. it is going to be a couple days though, i am on cords on two tires and dont see the need to travel at highway speeds until that is addressd.

[iggy097]

Gotta go get the fluid this week, and the parts needed to change it. I'll search up the link for the howto, I'm sure it's here sometime.
No time to change fluid now, have 3 new models starting this week, 2 custom videos, and a photo shoot.

[Payne Racing 67]

Yeah im doing fluid tomorrow. Although i missed 5th before, ground pretty good, and now its fine lol....my car is wierd


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[desertmike680]

So whats the best tranny fluid to get for our cars and where can you get it?

[alphasaur]

mounts help a ton. the mounts in this car are fucking garbage. this tranny doesn't like to be shifted quickly either, its not an s2000

[emag remrofni]

Originally Posted by desertmike680 So whats the best tranny fluid to get for our cars and where can you get it?

This is the shit that's basically dolphin tears for our transmissions. You can get it at wal mart.

Amazon.com: Bully Dog 105100 Automatic Transmission Fluid, 1 Gal., High Performance: Automotive

Amazon.com: Bully Dog 105100 Automatic Transmission Fluid, 1 Gal., High Performance: Automotive
Amazon.com: Bully Dog 105100 Automatic Transmission Fluid, 1 Gal., High Performance: Automotive

[GODspeed7]

Originally Posted by Tokay444 Try the free option first and tune the goddamn shifter.

I'm curious as to how tuning the shifter would help in this situation? I think he is referring to the problem of getting a grind from 2-3 under hard acceleration or WOT. My 2-3 shift when the car is off is just fine. It's when WOT it grinds.

Originally Posted by MS3G35 22K miles on my car, no grinding issues ever...Don't go around spreading shit because you need a driver mod. I'll recommend this car all day long.

Yeah I agree. Go fuck yourself. (respectfully of course) hundreds and thousands of MS3 people can't be wrong. Our transmissions are work horses power wise but our synchros are complete horse shit. Dot deny this fact. Just embrace it so you don't look stupid.

[Tokay444]

It's a shifter tuning problem.

They don't have a little old Japanese man at the end I the line that tunes every single car that comes of the line.
They bang them together and send them out.
This problem has been well documented, and there is a solution.
It involves not being lazy fuck, and getting your hands dirty.

If you DON'T tune your shifter, eventually you WILL have a syncro issue.
Not the cause of the problem, but the result.

[iggy097]

Let me sidetrack this thread for a moment and invite you all to stop talking about shifting and gears and synchros and instead enjoy some new fetish pr0n.
I'm updating my vimeo channel now, and also my youtube channel.
I won't post links, since it's NSFW but google search "vimeo seductive studios" or "youtube seductive studios"
After you've all relaxed, then you can come flame me again.
And this is why I have no time for fluid and syncros, and shifters.

[Caboose]

Originally Posted by desertmike680 So whats the best tranny fluid to get for our cars and where can you get it?

Ford XT-M5-QS. 3 quarts. Online and any Ford house sells it.

[Tokay444]

I just "relaxed" to some xvideos.com

[GODspeed7]

Originally Posted by Tokay444 It's a shifter tuning problem. They don't have a little old Japanese man at the end I the line that tunes every single car that comes of the line. They bang them together and send them out. This problem has been well documented, and there is a solution. It involves not being lazy fuck, and getting your hands dirty. If you DON'T tune your shifter, eventually you WILL have a syncro issue. Not the cause of the problem, but the result.

I understand that the shifter CAN be the problem but how do you explain it being buttery smooth when the car is off but the minute you go WOT you get a 2-3 grind? THAT tells me it's a fluid problem.

[Tokay444]

Did you just ask me about when the car is off?

[GODspeed7]

Originally Posted by Tokay444 Did you just ask me about when the car is off?

Yeah isn't that how you "tune" the shifter according to the how to video?!

[J_SPEEDSIX]

I see most of the cars on here are MS3, would this transmission fluid change be good for the MS6 too? Thanks

[dizzydtrain]

Originally Posted by J_SPEEDSIX I see most of the cars on here are MS3, would this transmission fluid change be good for the MS6 too? Thanks

Yes

[Payne Racing 67]

Originally Posted by GODspeed7 I understand that the shifter CAN be the problem but how do you explain it being buttery smooth when the car is off but the minute you go WOT you get a 2-3 grind? THAT tells me it's a fluid problem.

Not trying to be a douche lol but dude you can have a completely shot gear and it'll still go in like butter with the car off. Better test would be car running, then put the clutch in, and go to whichever gear grinds. If it goes in rough/doesnt/grinds then you know its a synchro issue. If its only WOT its likely fluid/shifter tuning.

[Renn]

I get a grind in second, always when it's cold, sometimes when it's warm. I just shift slow when it's cold. My third gear moves once in a great while - as in it's just not in the same place and I have to go farther to the right. I imagine a TMM could help this. The Ford fluid helped the 3rd issue but not the 2nd grind.

Still, compared to the nightmare that was my RSX-S tranny, this one just has... character. No big deal.

[GODspeed7]

Originally Posted by Payne Racing 67 Not trying to be a douche lol but dude you can have a completely shot gear and it'll still go in like butter with the car off. Better test would be car running, then put the clutch in, and go to whichever gear grinds. If it goes in rough/doesnt/grinds then you know its a synchro issue. If its only WOT its likely fluid/shifter tuning.

This is what I am saying. The OP as well as I said the grind is under mild to WOT acceleration and when I said this is a fluid issue I get corrected and told its not the fluid it's the shifter that needs to be adjusted, and that is wrong. Under low speeds and easy shifting my car has NEVER missed a shift.

[Scoobs]

Originally Posted by Tokay444 Try the free option first and tune the goddamn shifter.

^^^^
That and if it still doesn't help spend some money on TWM shifter. I talked to these guys lately and they say it solved the grinding. This is what I'm getting in the near futur TWM full replacement.

I changed the fluids, tuned the shifter and it helped a lot. Search for How too and do it!

[Scoobs]

Originally Posted by GODspeed7 I understand that the shifter CAN be the problem but how do you explain it being buttery smooth when the car is off but the minute you go WOT you get a 2-3 grind? THAT tells me it's a fluid problem.

The shifter is on crapy rubber bushings, when I tuned my shifter I played a bit with the assembly and it moves around. The bushings are tall and soft, Mazda must have put them there to remove the engine vibs thought the shifter but they suck!

After seeing what it does when going in to 2-3 well the shifter assembly moves forward a bit...more a tipping toward the front. By not very much but it does moves around, this can't be really good.

I didn't think of buying replacement bushing at the moment I tryed to fix the adjustment of the cable but I should have.