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before all if you live in allentown PA DO NOT GO TO KELLY MITSUBISHI, SERVICE IS THE WORST. now i have had my EVO x since march of 2008 neadless to say i have put tons of miles on my car, it is upto 19k miles. las friday i noticed a bit of grind going from 2nd to 3rd gear and didn't think anything of it as i was just crusing home in 5th. after 3 stop lights it got anoying and really bad. if the car is reved over 4500 and you shift into 3rd it doesn't matter how slow or hard you shift it sound like it is going to blow up. needless to say, i took the car in yesterday and now i'm waiting for them to tell me i did something wrong or i must have been racing the car and they wont cover it.

 

I have 4100 miles and my tranny is just as bad as it was on day one. 50% of the time it's hard to get into 1st or reverse, and it's almost always notchy/grinding going from 1st to second and 2nd to 3rd.

Around 1,000 miles I installed a TWM short shifter, TWM shifter bushings and TWM weighted shift knob. While this greatly improved the feel of the shifting overall, it didn't help any with the grinding/notchiness/hard-to-engage issues.

Has anyone seen any improvement with under-the-hood or other bushings?

 

Nala, have you told mitsubishi about this problem? hopefully you have a better dealership to deal with than me.

 

I have, but they told me that there was nothing they could do and that Mitsubishi was expected to release a TSB on this at some point. I didn't push it because (i) I'm used to it, (ii) so many others are experiencing the same thing, and (iii) they are good to me otherwise.

It hasn't gotten any worse at least, if it did I would raise more stink...

 

I dunno if this is gonna work for you, but I have noticed that whenever I drive the car aggressively and push the rpms all the way to 6000 and above before shifting, the shifts seem to get all soft. Of-course, the engine would already have to be warm before you push it so much.

EDIT: you don't have to keep driving it like that to feel soft shifts, once you tone down after driving aggressively, the shifts still are soft. so basically, you just need to do it once in a trip.

 

Check out my post above - I ripped through mine HARD a couple times and it's been SO much better from that point on.

 

I am gonna try the BG 2 this weekend and Amsoil MTF in couple of weeks.

Will post the results.

 

My car still crunches and grinds and it also giving me probs when engaging first and reverse, i am so discouraged. I do not believe that its not hurting my car. Its been in 5 times atleast for the problem. The last time they drove a new GSR on the lot and said "the new gsr responds the same as yours" my thought is, it doesn't make it ok that they are ALL fd up

 

Has anyone else had a new tranny?

 

They are all notchy, but once the car is warmed up, just shift it firmly and it drops in smoothly. I promise you that your tranny is no different than mine, and I could get in your car right now and shift it smooth as butter. Look, as I've said before, slow and gentle while it's cold, quick and firm once it's warmed up. If you haven't learned this by now, then you need to learn it soon.

 

 

yesterday i got my car back from the shop, i took a couple of photos of the components that where changed, looking at the pictures does not show why the tranny starts shifting notchy aster a while but it shows what happents if you dont get the problem resolved quickly..

 

I just got my X a few days ago and I really don't have any idea what most of you are talking about. I would say you don't know how to shift, but it's to many people here that have the problem and at least a few of you know how to lol. The one thing I noticed about mine is that the RPM's do not seem to drop off as fast, and that seems to make the shifter not want to go into gear, so I wait just a half a second or so and when they come down a bit I can go right into whichever gear I am shifting to.

 

I can second that Royal Purple sucks ace. I had TWO turbo's go out with it. At first I thought it was something else, so I put in a 10AN drain line... same thing. It breaks down uber fast. This was on my last car, an 06 Civic Si.

I just picked up a new Evo last week and it has the gear notchiness. I have no problem engaging gears, but the notchiness is there. My old Civic had the same problem, notchiness into 3rd gear, 3rd gear popping out, notchiness into 2nd, and mis-shifts in 1-2 and 2-3. They eventually released a TSB, which was a kit that replaced some of the synchro's in it. When I test drove my new Evo I noticed the notchiness right away, so I test drove some different ones... every single one had the same issue. These were from different dealerships too. We need to hit up Mitsubishi to get a TSB issued, that is what the Civic community had to do. One owner even got a news story over the issue, the TSB was released shortly after that... hmmm, coincidence?

Oh, and YAY 1st POST!