Hello... Do anyone of you notice a small jerk whenever the gears change in the 19 rdx?
I drove a cvt transmission car before where there is no gear change.
Now i am noticing a minor jerk(can feel the gear change) whenever transmission is changing gears.
Is that a common issue in honda’s 10 speed transmission?

 

I don’t know if the transmission jerk is common in the 10 speed or not but I got this on my RDX. Whenever I shift into gears it jerk a little bit. I had over 4K miles. Maybe the clutch and other parts will settle down after a while?! I do hope so. The tran shift is definitely not smooth at all. Too early to change the trans oil.

 

Rather than a jerking, I experience a positive shift through each of the gears. CVT makes me crazy as there are no gear shifts, so I like the 10 speed on my RDX.

 

Same here. I can feel the jerking shifting when the speed is under 30 mph. It is not really bad, but definitely not as smooth as some 8 speed transmissions.

Base awd, 1600 miles so far.

 

Coming from a CVT too (my first CVT but had traditional gears before). It is quiet normal for the RDX to jerk when it changes gears at low speed considering it has 10 gears, meaning a lot of shifting and I think it needs to shift a few gears at low speed to lower the rev for fuel economy.

You'll get use to it but it is always there. I miss my CVT too, very smooth and if it wasn't for the limited torque, I would go for a CVT again.

I've read somewhere that one owner had a transmission noise, not sure what it really sounded like, or was it a jerking problem too, but he had the dealer update a software for the transmission and it fixed his problem. I'm going to ask the dealer to do the same for me on my first oil change just to make sure mine is updated, I don't have any transmission complaints so far though.

 

There is a video interviewing the Engineer and he even admitted that there is a slight jerk at lower gear shifting (something like 1 ~ 3). So, yes, I have noticed that, but after 3rd gear, it was smooth.

 

All geared automatic transmissions will have some jerkiness when they shift, and there is a trade-off between smoothness, performance, and overall fuel efficiency.

Early production 2019 RDXs had some especially jerky shifts in the low gears, and IIRC there was even a procedure dealer service could perform to "wear-in" the clutches in the transmission and smooth things out. Or you can just drive the thing and wait for them to wear-in on their own after a few thousand miles. Mine was very early production, and it has smoothed out a lot with normal wear.

 

I bought my 2019 RDX Tech in September 2018 and had issues from day 1. Transmission harsh shift issue, intermittent Airbag passenger light staying on, Radio volume erratic, no station control from steering wheel, loss of audio, parking going on on its own and could not release on several occasions. Lost power passing a car at 70MPH and had to pull over and re-start car. The climate control turning itself off and going to LO mode several times. All issues brought to dealer for repairs and never could reproduce problems. Made several video recordings of these thing happening. File Lemon Law. After 9 months with this intermittent car, lost the case as dealer keeps saying operating as designed. Had 8 Acuras since 2001 and never had any issues with any until this one. Never again. I traded it in with 8400 miles as I didn’t feel safe driving this and had way too many intermittent issues. Beware!

 

Can confirm, there's slight jerkiness in the lower gears. What I find concerning is reverse always takes a few seconds to engage after pressing the button.

 

It’s part of the design, it affects everyone, I’m sure they got it as fast as they could but there is always room for improvement, I do wish it was faster myself

 

If you are coming from a CVT, then a good way to tell if it's you or the vehicle is to observer the pattern and strengths of the jerks and see if they are consistent every time.

The harsh, problematic jerks that some folks are observing on their cars are inconsistent, they tend to softens after certain driving time as the car warms up.

Another way to distinguish whether it's your own experience of driving a CVT or vehicle's problem is to test drive another RDX from the dealer.

When I test droves the RDXs, I didn't notice any harshness at all comparing to my own MB truck.

 

Some good suggestions/posts in here.
A CVT is designed not to jerk, while automatic transmissions do have positive gear change engagements

 

Were there any noticeable differences from before/after adding the K-Tuner Stage 1?

 

YES! Throttle response is much quicker without any of the lag that many of us commented on when we first got our RDX's. My "seat of the pants" dyno also informs me that acceleration is notably quicker. One of our participants asked me if I timed the 0-60 before and after, and I responded that I am the consummate conceptual vs. analytical on the conceptual side. I am not averse to numbers, just my collection of them. The car seems much quicker to me, to the point that even my wife noticed it when we we were on vacation and I needed to pass a vehicle on a two lane road and accomplished said passing with a greater velocity than she expected, and at a greater speed than I expected.

To those refugees who have fled from the land of the CVT to a real transmission, yes Virginia, automatic transmissions with gears actually do change gears and it is sometimes noticeable. As a preferred manual transmission driver (I need a new left knee, after replacement of same I will resume driving my Mazdaspeed 3) I decide when and how smoothly those shifts occur, I find it comforting that my 10 speed transmission, which has more gears than any manual I know of, is actually using all of them. Our transmission is noted positively as one well programmed to chose the appropriate gear seamlessly, as opposed to some that seem to randomly select gears.

 

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Have any of you noticed that sometimes driving in the lower gears like 3-4 it will once in awhile, pretty rare, but it feels like the torque converter does not lockup. The car still speeds up but the revs do not seem to be completely locked to the engine speeding up. It’s like if I give it more gas the RPMs will increase more then what makes sense for the car speeding up, almost like the torque converter is not locked and I’m relying on the fluid to move me. It’s only happened a few times, but it’s an odd feeling when it does happen

 

I haven’t noticed this occurring on my car.

 

I haven't encountered this at all *knock on wood*. Car shifts pretty darn smooth through all the gears. At least upshifting. When slowing down, you can feel each downshift, which can be annoying while trying to brake smoothly.

 

It could be that the car is in a lower gear then what I was expecting and giving me this feeling