2nd gear crunches
12-29-2001, 06:27 PM
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Hi Anir,
Wow, experiencing "the crunch" at only 14k miles. Bummer! My subjective impression is that most people have many more miles than that before complaining of the crunch--or notchy gears.
I remember when I first bought my car, when it had just under 14k miles. Everything about the (then 5-speed) trans. was perfect! Somewhere in the 30k(+) miles, I experienced my first when cold crunch. And, I can still remember distinctly my first notchy gear, at just under 37k miles. Fortunately, the trans. quickly reached a plateau, and things never got worse.
At 100k miles, I replaced my 5-speed with a 37k miles 6-speed. It behaves similar to my old 5-speed.
Of course, in So. Cal it never reaches 35F. Perhaps if it did, I would have noticed the crunch much sooner?
Wow, experiencing "the crunch" at only 14k miles. Bummer! My subjective impression is that most people have many more miles than that before complaining of the crunch--or notchy gears.
I remember when I first bought my car, when it had just under 14k miles. Everything about the (then 5-speed) trans. was perfect! Somewhere in the 30k(+) miles, I experienced my first when cold crunch. And, I can still remember distinctly my first notchy gear, at just under 37k miles. Fortunately, the trans. quickly reached a plateau, and things never got worse.
At 100k miles, I replaced my 5-speed with a 37k miles 6-speed. It behaves similar to my old 5-speed.
Of course, in So. Cal it never reaches 35F. Perhaps if it did, I would have noticed the crunch much sooner?
