Hey guys, I'm pretty new here, but I need some help with my transmission. I have a pretty simple Lancer ES, I haven't done anything to the car. I traded in my Explorer to buy the Lancer because i heard good reviews on it and it was more economical. (I drive 50 miles each way to work....100 miles a day) I bought it last July and it worked great until January when I noticed that the car was shifting very hard between shifts. It wasn't happening all the time, until May....then i noticed that the car was shifting hard all the time, with jerks and a "popping" sound. And then it started to grind between shifts, and this is an AUTOMATIC!! When it does this grinding, the RPM's shoot up to about 4-5K, lasts about 3 seconds and then pops into gear. One time it actually shot off on me, and I had to swerve to miss a car. I took it into the dealer 3 times, and all those the dealer tells me that they can't duplicate the problem. the tech line said there was nothing wrong with it. The dealer refuses to drop the tranny because they can't dup the prob. Can someone PLEASE tell me what the problem could be? The control module? the fuel injector? anything you all could tell me would help me, because I'm at my wits end with this thing.....If I would have known I would have had this many problems with it, i never would have bought it