dlee74

The past weekend, I was going up suicide hill (Fargo or Baxter street) in LA and shifted from 1st to 2nd in manual. The car did not engage in 2nd half-way up since the hill has a 33 percent incline (http://www.flickr.com/photos/14333100@N06/3359493289/). The steepest street in LA. So I was revving didn't realizing that the gear was not engaging but did not redline. I was smoking in the back. What may cause the smoke and did I damage the engine in any way? I'm not sure it was lugging since I wasn't in gear. I don't think I was since I was not moving in 2nd. Did anyone went on suicide hill on their TSX?

DuckDodgers

Maybe try again but a little more lucid...I've read it four times and still aren't sure what the heck you intended to say/ask.

dlee74

I was told not a lot of people really knows those streets anyways in LA. I might not get too much of a response. I was climbing the hill on my TSX that has a 33 percent incline to it. Halfway up the hill, I shifted to 2nd gear but the car was not accelerating and started to burn smoke behind the car. Not sure if the hill was too steep that the car's computer chip could not react quick enough to drive in 2nd and was burning smoke. I was wondering if anyone with a manual had an experience where there was smoke coming from behind the car going uphill. After I climbed over the hill, I can still smell the burned smoke for an hour or two in my car. I was just wondering if that was bad for the engine or what may cause that.

SoCaliTrojan

You're confusing. You're talking about the car's computer in a manual transmission car. Maybe you're talking about an auto transmission car? (We all know their manual shift mode isn't a real manual.) With an auto, the car can sense how steep a hill is, and it won't let you override its programming. For example, go downhill on a steep hill, and the car will automatically shift gears even though you didn't ask for it. If you're trying to redline in 1st gear, or lugging in 2nd gear, neither can be good for the car.

If it's a manual transmission car, the car should shift for you. The burning smell would then be your tires (if you have the oem tires). I actually drove on some of those steep roads in that area (silver lake/echo park) a few months ago. My TSX (6MT) couldn't make it up the road because it couldn't gain traction in the rain. I got up the road a little, upshifted, and started losing traction. I slammed on the brakes, and my car slid backwards a foot or so. I just went in reverse and took a different road.

I would expect the smoke to come from the front tires if it was losing traction (6MT). If it's coming from the back (especially when going uphill), it might be coming from the muffler. Having an engine smoking is not a good sign. Maybe your fluid levels are low, and being on a steep road caused part of the engine to become starved?

moda_way

When english in form good to understand concern about car good, question posed can answered by people much better, or if language different, pose in language native and forum member with similar language translated to rest who not speaking language.

psteng19

Your post is confusing.

Is it a manual or an auto?

Tsx6363

i think he's an auto using tiptronic

visuelz

I believe the smoke you're seeing is the excessive fuel being put out.

nbtx

Or he has a manual and was slipping the clutch - hell I couldn't understand it either.
Moral: stay away from suicide hill if you are not lucid.

vwong

nbtx

I couldn't have said it more better myself ...