Casper98CL

well... 6 yrs and 75,465 miles later... driving home.. my TRANNY kicks the shit!!!! No warning.. no nothing... suddenly at 80 mph it downs shifts itself so my rpms shoot from 3k to 6500 and then back to norm... I pull over... confused I try and start up again.. and its all outta wack.... I try to start in D3 and she moves ok.. but It wont shift outta 1st....

All I wanted to do was to sell the bitch... Found out it is ballpark $1600 to $2100 to rebuild my tranny... I wanted $9k neg. with stereo and upgrades.. now I am gonna ask for $6k firm... and the buyer can save $1000 or so dollars...

white3.0

did u have a heavy foot? you drive it hard alot?

Casper98CL

I drive hard.. but not abusive... I baby my car alot... take great care of her... I do tranny fluid transfusions and whole 9 yrds.. Im not pissed it went.. i am pissed it went b4 i sold her!!!

acura1983

once another case of the ACURA TRANNY

ghost_masterCL

what do you mean by drive hard but not abuseive? does that mean a lot of WOT, but you don't pull the e-brake while going 60 for a quick u-turn? Do you do a lot of WOT? Do you corner at high speeds? how often, if at all, do you gate shift? Do you ever manually downshift the car, or just go WOT and let the tranny do it for you? Just trying to get an idea of driving habits on trannys that fail to see if I'm suceptible to this failure... even though I plan on putting in a Dr. Evil anyways, and going FI, but still gotta know how the stock one works first since I may not have the cash for a dr. evil for several years...

ghost_masterCL

oh yeah, and when do YOU personally use D3 or D4? Do you only use D4 on highway, or do you do it in places where the speed limit is 45, but you got 55 anyways :P?

ding069

That sucks man. Really, right before your ready to bail and something like that surfaces you know I have been told that tranny flushes open a can of worms and they shouldn't even be done unless you are having a problem with the tranny.

ghost_masterCL

just like the saying goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Minch00

Sucks dude

97Acura3.0CL

that sucks Gianni

welcome to the sucky tranny club, mine kicked the bucket about 3 months ago and mine cost me about 2300 and that we a hook up, make sure you sensor and all the clutch plates are ok and you should replce the tourque convertor too while your at it man

sorry to hear for your loss

mesmerize

damn... sorry bout that hun

i just know mine is gonna wait to go right after my extended warranty expires... that's exactly what happened with my last car -- all the problems started like the day after the warranty ran out.

red99cl2.3

i;ve been in the car wit you i think you maybe abused it a bit . ur car ran so damn smooth though sorry to hear it took a crap on you just like that kinda sucks u cant sell it for what you wanted now.

Casper98CL

my "driving hard" consists of speeding and reving the car through the gears... I have used D3 to slow down but not rgualrly... I do not use anything other than D4 ever!!! I dont nuetral drop or bake stand or any nonsense and I dont race... it was just time...

as for tranny flush tranfusions... it simply replaces tranny fluid through out the system... been doin them since day 1 of the car... my tranny never had an issue b4... car always ran great with them....

ah well

Casper98CL

what you saw/experienced was driving hard... accelerating fast and speeding is not abuse...

r3mix3r

Am i not suppose to use d4 all the time?

ghost_masterCL

no man, only use D4 if you are going to be going 45 or faster. If you're doing mostly city driving just use D3.I pop it into D4 in my area because I have large stretches of raod without a stoplight where it's 45 but I jsut go 50-55 so I put it into D4 to save gas. If I put it into D4 in the regular driving if I'm going 35-40 and I have it in D$ and I lightly accelerate the car shakes from the strain on the engine, so I just leave it in d3 in city driving. when I slow down sometimes I pop it into d3 so I don't use up my brakes too much. think of D4 as putting the car in overdrive. you wouldn twant to do that if youwere going 35.

97Acura3.0CL

you should not run d3 at all unless you are going up hill or something

when you drop it into d3 picture your clutch plates pressing against each other and with enough pressure they grind down

heres a pic of what my clutch plates look like after my tranny went out i was so surprise and i used d3 only to catch up on the freeway onramp and playing catch up with a little ricer

these pics are pictured from right to left

1st gear to 2nd gear


2nd gear to 3rd *look at the second plate, thats 3rd and its smokey as fuck


3rd to 4th gear





just look at all the stress and black residue from shifting and grinding the paltes from shifting from d3 to d4, i hope these pics do justice and show ya not to shift like that

ghost_masterCL

uhhmmm.... that makes no sense man.By putting it into d3 all youa re doing is electronically preventing the tranny from shifting into 4th gear.. that's it. As I recall it even says to do that in the manual, not to mention I asked my local acura dealer and they said the same exact thing. Of all people they should know.

Hobo

yea those are the same guys that dont think there is a problem with the trannies?

ghost_masterCL

what? I thought they had aknowledged the tranny issues...? or is that only on teh second gens?

liloj

only the second gens have the big recall...the first never got into it as deep

ghost_masterCL

that's probably because our tranny problems don't show up tlil 70+ k miles. the second gens fuck up with as little as 5k miles. now that isa HUGE defect.

edit: speaking of trannys. the dr evil transmission is just a part replacement of the stock tranny right? same design and everything. So if it retains the same design and they just replave the parts won't it also retain teh same design flaw? Or do the upgraded parts fix that flaw?

Casper98CL

actually the 1st - 1st gens had major tranny issues as well...
They recalled and sent out warnings at one point years ago.. my VIN was after the fact...

who knows why.. probably because she is mad that I am ridding her... its the "Christine" factor in effect!!!!

ghost_masterCL

lol, it's a car dude. get a hold of yourself. :P

Casper98CL

ahhh.... I am a gear head.. nad to any gear head a car is NOT just a car!!!

cl-baller201

hey Casper man what the fawk happen

U use to have one the hottest first gen's..........now u goin' out like Tyson.

u fawkin suck



I was a Fan

98AcuraCLpimp

damn that sucks bro...im just waiting for mine to go...it seems all good for now..knock on wood...

proaudio22

You are correct. D3 just keeps the car from going into the overdrive gear. No harm in running it that way at all, I do it all the time. The time to run in D3 is when you the car wants to shift between 3/4 all the time, like hilly roads. Shifting between the two gears often like so puts extra stress on them. When you coast, it will want to go to 4th, but as soon as you hit the gas only going 45 or so, it'll have to go to 3rd. Putting it in D3 keeps this from happening. You won't lose any gas mileage unless you take it to over 3K rpm, b/c thats right where you run on the hiway. You are also correct that the manual says to do so. people. I also use D3 and 2 when going down hills for engine braking - who says manuals get all the perks?

Casper98CL

I'm not out like Tyson... I just grew outta the CL.. I actually have lost total interest in the car!!!