what is the problems with your trans? what symptoms are you having?

 

Having lots and lots of loud thumps when the gears are changing. Hard to describe, but seems like the gears arent engaging correctly. When I drive in manual mode though it seems fine.

 

you will feel like the car is wheel hopping like crazy... Usually in 1st, and it will feel really rough when the couch us grabbing the gear. Is it making agrinding noise??

 

It makes a ****load of noises while decelerating but I heard that was normal. Actually makes a ton of noises when coming to a stop. So really have no idea if this is normal or not. That was a question I was gonna leave for the dealership.

Off the subject though. I saw a video on youtube called srt-4 chasing Evo X MR and saw you posted there. Curious, was that your MR bro?

 

I cant see what Mods you had, but I was a service manager with a number of different dealerships, (different brands, foreign, domestic, ect.) and most of the time all the manufactures sided on the side of the customer. I will give you one example where they did and I feel that the should not have. Customer has a Dodge Ram 3500 Cummins Diesel with a Power Programmer on it. The injectors and fuel pump went, this repair is about 5 grand. So we had to call in in to Tech Line. They said no because all that, that programmer does is make the injection pump produce max pressure all the time. Too much pressure, not designed to be that way. 2nd part the customer does truck pulls at county fairs with the truck, Dodge declined looking at drive line vibrations due to this. After the customer yelling at me and calling me every name in the book, the Dodge rep. caved and gave him all the new parts. Then he wanted his previously declined drive line vibrations covered too. I kindly let him know that would not happen, and asked him to leave. Dodge had him dead to rights to not cover it. After they did he wanted to have everything covered even though he abused it. He was a di*k from day one, so no help from me, and I was the one person in the dealership that could help him. (He later bought a 2500 Hemi from our dealership. But when I was consulting for a local Honda Power Sports dealer and he saw me there he refused to purchase anything from our establishment. Trust me I did not go hungry! lol)
I am at a Mazda, Cadillac, Suzuki, Hyundai, Honda, and Ford "Auto Mall".
We will call the customer a fat version Elton John, just to protect his identity. But you can guess why I am using that name. He owns a Miata with about 40k miles on it and it is still under warranty. He has "His mechanic" diag. everything and then brings it to us to be fixed under warranty. He had brought the car back for a bunch of BS stuff, like him leaving the parking brake on and smoking the brakes and blaming it on a defect in the car. He has also had 5 sets of front wheel bearings in this vehicle. (Mazda vehicles are bar far the best vehicles I have every seen while managing a service dept.) So we keep replacing them and just questioning him every time what is he doing with this car, racing, hitting curbs, rough roads ect. Then he brings it in in December and it magically has "winter rims" on it with winter tires. Theses tires stick out about 3 inches from the body of the car. (I have pics) The offset tof the wheels are totally wrong, and they are the wrong size tires. We called Mazda due to the fact if we replace a part more than 2 time on one car we need to cover my a*s so that I will get payed for the repair. They ask what size tires are on it, we tell then and they say no and to call are rep. our rep says no. The guy went ballistic and he called Mazda and they even told him no. We looked at they dates of when we replaced the bearings they were all after winter, and after he took off his "winter rims". Again he came in like an a*shole and he ended up getting what he deserved. If he would have been cool about, and possibly been a loyal customer, not a "fix it for free B*t*h customer" we could have forced our reps hand and and fixed it one last time.

I have gotten out of the Car Biz and when back to school after 7years of this kind of bs I was done.

I would be really interested in knowing what kind of mods you had. From what kind of power you are putting down the trans should not have failed.

I could prob force any trans to fail by beating it, (Not saying you did) so I don't want to hear people say that "If it was stock it would have never failed"

I would also love to know what they say failed.

My 2 cents!

 

My new trans is in the car now and i'm back on the road. It feels better than t did when i drove it off the lot. They fixed it within decent time and did a decent job although i had to take t back for some minor things that had been done wrong on the car. But very happy with this...... Now who said mitsu warranty was bad???? HAHAHA

 

So they actually replaced it under warranty for you after you stripped the mods off the car?

If so.... Congratulations! You're a morally reprehensible person who is giving doing real damage to the reputation of those of us who know the difference between honesty and deception.

We're all very impressed by your masterful con.

 

Wow.... As if you wouldn't want ur trans replaced. You need to grow up buddy as not all of us have 10 grand to spend on a car... :-) and it's not even a con. I took my bolt on parts off hence why they are called bolt one. What if you were selling your parts. You would take your BOLT one off. Exactly what happened.... Sorry your so bitter about it. Have a bad experience with your warranty?? LOL

 

YO dude GRATZ!!!!!!!! Thats great that they replaced the trans for you, your car is a beast and it would have been sad to see it go

 

So compromising your integrity to save money on car repair is a sign of maturity?

That's an interesting definition of the etymology of bolt *ons*. Who knew that the reason they're referred to as bolt-ons had more to do with warranty repair work than the level of intrusiveness when installing.

You realize you're engaging in fraudulent activity in violation of the contract for repair under standard warranty terms, and you're careless enough to broadcast what you're doing on a public forum.

'Stupid criminal' news stories are always entertaining. You might as well post a YouTube video of you celebrating your victory now. That would really cement your epic win over Mitsu and us stupid, immature chumps who pay for our own mistakes instead of getting other people own up through deceit.

Please do keep us all informed on how your 2nd tranny fares once you reinstall the parts that almost certainly contributed to the failure of your first transmission.

 

Ok well I post a video just you buddy. I guess your a little hurt here... That's on you, not me buddy... :-)

 

My 05 M3 SMG vert was a great car. I launched that car many times. Without any hiccups. I even liked my 05 SMG gearbox better than my buddies GTR..

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Thats good to hear you got fixed under warranty Phil.....

What dealer was it that you went to?

 

Im curious, Do you have nothing better to do with you're time? It's his car and he can do whatever he wants with it. You obviously dont agree, and thats fine.

To the OP, I would do the same thing if I was in your situation, you buy 40K car only to have it break under mild modification's. Its not like they made the evo after a rally car,lol. They advertise the car like its race car, what do you expect?

Im gald they fixed you're car, and good luck with the gsr, thats if you still plan on getting one...

 

Thank you, i really appreciate your input on this lostkoz. I dont understand 144mph's problem? But super glad i got my new trans installed :-)