In just two weeks of driving my new S2000, my shifter has jumped out of 4th gear 3 different times! Each time I was accelerating in the normal range, not VTECing. How weird is that?

 

Almost 3500 miles, never happened before. neither in the Miata either. The mustang, well, nope, not there either.

I hope you aren't resting your hand on the shifter. If you do this it adds a bit of pressure on the gears and rubs the gears together, causing them to wear down a bit. Of course, this is only when you are holding on top (more pressure to leverage your resting hand) and after long periods of time. Any tranny is this way. However, if you've got a Tercel with a loose tranny shifter, it will not take the same kind of wear as the s2k's.

 

Almost 14K, it never happened...You might want to call the Ghost Buster

 

Never happened to me nor have I heard it mentioned on this board. Very strange.

Can you replicate it at will? Sounds like a good candidate for a dealer visit. Please let us know what you find.

 

I would suggest taking this problem to your dealership immediatly. It's never happened on my s2k but on my old talon it did and on many other 2g talons and eclipses it's done that before. The problem was some nut or something holding all the gears came loose and therefore would cause the 5th gear to pop out of place and eventually on some guys car, the nut popped off, shot a hole through his tranny and everything seized up on him. I don't think this will be as serious as that..I hope..You can check it out at http://members.home.com/costall/1000Q/index.htm ..look under the full index at and at the questions which reads, "My 5th gear is popping out" or something to that effect..hope this helps..

 

Never, in nearly 14k miles.

 

My S2k doesn't, but my e36 M3 did. Drove me nuts. My guess in that car was that it was due to the shift linkage being slightly out of alignment -- enough so that it would pull out of gear when the engine/tranny was torqued-over hard.

Scott
'00 S2k
'01 GTI1.8t
'00 S4

 

I hope you're not talking about the driver here H2000

Seriously though, I have never heard of this problem with Stooks - sounds like a definite warranty claim to me.

 

It has happened to me twice in the 15 months I've had the car and it is unusual enough that I remember both. I had assumed that it was incomplete shifts where the mechanism was not pushed fully into place allowing it to move back into neutral under the right conditions. It both cases it was movement from fourth to neutral, when the gearbox was relatively cool, and I was driving in a relaxed manner with easy shifts. I had racked it up to my driving but if it happens often to you it is something to discuss with the dealership mechanic.

 

I have had this happen 3 times under the same conditions as you. At first I thought it was my fault not getting it all the way in gear but after watching it very closely i realized it was the transmission. I will be taking minr tot he dealer as soon as the roads allow for it. I have only 3,000 miles on mine.