Haven't owned a bmw have you?

 

Thats what I was thinking, when I bought my car and had this grinding issue after I left the dealership. Seriously it's not normal for a car costing 30k plus to have tranny issues, its not like you paying for the luxury of a evo cause it really has none, your paying for the perfoirmance aspect of it which is why people buy evos and thats why evos should not be having trannys with grinds and that sort of stuff new from the dealership it makes you really think about the quality mitsu puts into a evo which is not very good and up to par when you consider theirs transmissions and what your paying for a evo. Plus every one I know who has a evo has a grinding issue with their evo tranny whether the car is new or used. These problematic tranny issues with evos really need to be put to a halt somebody needs to bring up a class action suit against mitsu and the how the quality of their trannies are not up to par for the most part. That should rattle them up a bit and that should bring up the quality of their trannies up to par. So that customers wont have new cars with the god forsaken tranny grind. And I know what you mean completly when you say it's how the dealer deals with the customer. It's of no surprise when I've called 3 mitsu dealship numbers listed on the net closest to me in the past, and I was told by the person who answered the phone that the mitsu dealer in the location I was callin to talk to has gone out to business. Cause I've been to the three of those dealships around me that went out of business and when I went their to go discuss buying a evo with all three dealerships and their employees acted like street thugs trying to hustle me for money by trying to charging way to much above what a evo was costing at the time, like I was some idiot in a rush going in to their dealership to buy a evo right that second and talk to me the customer with a terrible attitude like i'm better than you and act like I don't know anything. The experience with mitsu employees is never enjoyable their always up to something sleezy and I don't trust them. Also their was this one time a couple years back when I called the mitsu dealership in the bronx to ask what their evo 9's were going for new. As I was talking to sales man, the call ends some how. So I call the guy back, but before I had a chance to call him back he had called and left a messge on my phone, saying how he dosent appreciate how I hung up on him, and i don't remeber hanging up on him and if I did it, it was not intentional cause we were in the middle of a converstion, and on the message the saleman left on my phone he goes on to say how if he wasnt at work he would kick my *** and someother **** he was talking on the message he left, and I was thinkin is this guy for real he works for a mitsu dealership and he's acting up like he wants to fight with a potential customer and that was all before I could even call him back. So when I called the dealship back this lady picked up the phone and I had told her what had happend but i didnt know the salesmans name and I could not get a hold of him and I don't think that lady on the phone was able to identify him either cause I didnt have his name, after that incident I never called or dealt with that dealership again. I don't even know if their out of business but most likely they are as you can tell why. It 's no wonder why mitsu corp was almost ready to call it quits a while back, they just don't know how to run a corporation properly when it comes to customer satifaction and car quality.

 

Thats even more reason why the new evos should not have tranny grinds. Their basically at the price point of a quality german car.

 

Again, Haven't owned a bmw have you?


Go check out the BMW forums...45k and tons of problems: FP and Electrical gremlins.

Some BMW drivers stranded withing the first 500 miles Think how mad you would be about that.

 

Maybe I'm just retarded, but I'm not following your logic. No, I don't own a BMW and never have. Yet, that's not relevant to the Evo X potentially having a transmission issue and the poor treatment these guys have received from their dealers so far. Just because a BMW might have some problems, does not mean anyone who buys an Evo X should settle for an issue just because other car companies have problems too.

 

No I havent owned a bmw. They don't appeal to me. It sounds like the engineers of bmw overdesigned the technology in their new bmws and don't know how to control it. Sounds like a government experiment gone bad.

 

Adding a poly front motor mount may also help. Stock, my VIII was a PITA to try to shift quickly from 1 - 2. I'm guessing all of the aforemention upgrades will help the X as well ... they certainly worked miracles on my VIII.

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I am simply stating that the price point of a car does not correlate with it's reliability. I made these statements b/c someone mentioned we shouldn't have these issues with a 38K car. Again, price has no direct effect on reliability. BMW, Mercedes, Jaguar, etc all have issues, some more than others.

I believe that no matter how much you pay for a car, the dealer should warranty it. You definately do not see this type of dealer treatment from most Honda/Acura dealers.

Also dealers are simply liason's to the manufacturer. You get denied at one dealership, simply contact another dealership or MMNA.

 

I like the superduper part under your sig. Good choice of words, something that is not the norm.

 

Gotcha. We're pretty much saying the same thing. I'm just a little slow sometimes

Hey, you gotta get noticed somehow

 

My 8 Did the same thing, the 1st 10k mile or so,
My X is doing the same thing from 1st to 2nd, i have 500 mile on it now.

 

I have the same issue with 2nd and 3rd on my X. It had the problem when I drove it off the lot. It is very intermittent. I have about 400miles on mine. I havent figured out under what conditions it does the notch. On mine...its not a grind...it is a notch. It goes into gear everytime but just has a bump sound and a little resistance. Hope this goes away quickly. I figured after I break it in I will give it another 1000 miles to see if it remedies itself before I take it in.

I test drove another car that had a similar problem. It had very low amount of miles as well. Probably less than 20.

 

530 miles here, same symptoms...

 

Is there a "restrictor" in the line like the 8/9? I know that cured the 2nd gear issues in those cars.

x...

 

2800 miles, still having the same problem.
I am learning to shift differently to avoid it. I love this car, but this is the one thing I would like to see addressed ASAP.