If I'm driving slowly and shift at very low rev's to 4th (say calmly cruising up to a red light), it will sometimes pop out of 4th into neutral.

Three possibilities:
1) a defective tranny; vibrations pop it out.
2) I'm too weak (or just not pushing it hard enough when I'm relaxed) and don't get it all the way in; vibrations pop it out.
3) Design flaw where not enough tension and resonant freq's pop it out.

Does this happen to anyone else?

 

The S2000 of a fellow post whore that makes him go makes me go .

 

i really dont think its a design flaw. when i had my 01, it never did it..

 

A number of us have had the forth gear problem fixed. Apparently it is bent shift forks and is covered on warranty.

 

Thank. This is great info.

 

The better dealers are aware of this problem, they had to pull the tranny all to peices.
I had mine done. Beause of the dropping problem. I lost 1-5th synco's 1-5 gearing as well as all collets in the tranny. All replaced by hond
honda under warrentee but It took a good 7 days for them to finish it.

 

does the 2002 model have the same defect?

 

My 2002 did this for the very first time about 10 mins after leaving the dealership for its very first oil change - talk about comforting Hasn't happened again, and I've tried to make it do it...

 

How does this come about? Driving habits? Defect from the factory?

 

I really don't know.. but would guess it comes from hard shifting with inadequate or miss-adjusted shift stops.