Okay is this normal. Every time I start my car and start driving, after not having driven for a while, it feels like the gears grind for half a second. It does not make an audible sound although you can definitly feel it if you're expecting it. My car has been doing this since I got it and I have about 5000kms on it now. Has this happened to anyone else?

 

Haven't had it.

I'm sure that I'm not the one who could help you on this, but:
It might be helpful for you to say what you mean by "a while," also whether you have AT or MT.

 

By a while I mean over night, and I have a 5AT

 

Wow, that was fast!
Good that you clarified -- it seemed like you probably meant leaving it for a couple of weeks or something.

So basically this means it happens every day!!!

 

yes, it happens every day. Let me clarify a little. I can not hear the "grind", I can only feel it through the car. It is not a severe vibration but it is noticable. If I thought it was really bad I would have taken it in immediatly.

 

If I were you, I'd take it in anyways. Something must be wrong.

 

You sure it's not the ABS? Someone mentioned it initializes whenever you start the car, and that makes a kind of grinding noise...

 

All Honda 6-speed exhibit this trait (actually so did my '93 MR-2 turbo). S2000s, RSX-S, have it if you shift really fast on a cold gearbox. TSX and CL much less so, but probably because their engines don't rev as high. It's nothing to be worried about. Just pause a split second between shifts when the car is cold and let the synchros catch up.

 

He has AT.

 

Sounds like the ABS pump up.

 

Sorry! As rzee said, it's your ABS pump!

 

thanks

 

I've experienced the same thing. On my vehicle, it only occurs just after I start up- when I switch from reverse to forward, i can feel both in the clutch and the gas a slight 'movement' (and i describe it as such because there is no sound, it is simply feels like something is falling into place). At no other point during my drive do I ever feel this- and this does not occur every day. Im hoping its normal!

J.

 

as everyone said it's the ABS system initializing and doing a quick test -- Colin was saying old ABS systems had a lot of trouble with freezing up with lack of use(solenoids would stop working etc) so by doing a test fire when you start driving it's ensuring that wont' happen.