About 4 month ago I purchased my brand new 2012 z. The car is my daily and is driven hard every once in a while (drifting/spirited driving). From day 1
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09-06-2012, 01:19 AM | #1 (permalink) |
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7k mi. NEW TRANSMISSION
About 4 month ago I purchased my brand new 2012 z. The car is my daily and is driven hard every once in a while (drifting/spirited driving). From day 1 I always thought the gear box was a little bit more 'clunky' than its supposed to be. This being my first manual car, I just assumed it was normal for the gears to be a little rough. Weeks after i bought the car, I was coming home from a buddies house and was turning onto the highway. I was shifting into 2nd from 1st and as I lifted my foot off the clutch I realized it was stuck all the way in, to the floor. SCARED THE SHITT out of me! I thought maybe it was just something I did wrong.. seeing as I had just learned how to drive stick, so I moved on. A little while after that (1k+ miles) I started to notice the clutch having trouble into 1st and 2nd. At higher RPMs it would be a challenge to shift into 2nd without some jerking, and sometimes the RPMs would jump before shifting into gear. I thought maybe it was just my lack of experience on what is known to be a 'hard to master' clutch. At 7k I began to hear/feel a grind into 5th. I immediately took her to my dealer to get it looked at. I get a call from the dealer the next day telling me a new trans was on the way. =O I dropped the car off on a Monday night. I got her back at lunch on Wednesday. I was very curious to see how different the gears/clutch would feel. I jumped in and started driving and wow.. HUGE difference. like night and day, the gears are like butter now, its so much less noisy, and my 1st-2nd shifts are like clockwork. What bothers me is that the service people at my dealership would not give me a straight answer as to what actually went wrong with the trans. All they would say is it was an internal failure... oh thanks, lots of help there... I guess it doesn’t really matter, my baby is back to 100%.. well it never really was at 100% to begin with, but its there now so what everr.
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09-06-2012, 03:28 AM | #3 (permalink) |
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I'm at 15k with my 2012 and I have the same problem, is it possible to scan your paperwork to see what they wrote down as symptoms? I wants to make sure I get things right so they cover this.
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09-06-2012, 09:45 AM | #4 (permalink) |
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When they can't give you a straight answer or site "internal failure" as the reason it is because it takes more time, money and resources to find/fix rather than just replace the transmission. Stealerships...
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09-06-2012, 03:35 PM | #6 (permalink) |
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It's your clutch slave cylinder, not your trans, that blew... not sure why they'd replace the trans unless you damaged it from not having a properly working clutch.
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09-13-2012, 04:44 PM | #7 (permalink) | |
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09-13-2012, 04:54 PM | #8 (permalink) |
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Man my transmission was old (@ 21k before i needed a new one) compared to yours
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11-13-2012, 03:03 PM | #9 (permalink) |
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Im at 29k and theyre replacing mine in my 09. Question is do u get a new slave with new trans? The service guy isnt very informative. Its annoying. Theyve had my car a week hopefully be in my hands tomorrow! !!
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