Sorry for the long post.
2012 Mazda 3 sport GS-Sky. 59,000 km. Bought it brand new. Had a few issues with the ATC computer in the first year of owning it -fixed under warranty. I'm now 5 months outside my warranty period (60mo) and went to drive my car. Started fine, reversed fine, back into drive and going down the street - when it was going fast enough for the transmission to switch to second it grabbed hard like I hit the breaks and slowed me right down and dropped back down into 1st gear. Tried different RPMs, sport manual, disconnecting the battery for 15 minutes... no luck.
Towed it to a transmission place who said there are no error codes and a new transmission has to come from Texas and will be 5-6000 dollars plus shipping and work...
Just got it towed to a mazda dealer but I'm not optimistic.
Has anyone had this problem before? There was no lead up to this at all. Just happened. I drive my car pretty conservatively (5+years old with 59k km) and I'm feeling like I got lemoned hard on this.
2012 Mazda 3 sport GS-Sky. 59,000 km. Bought it brand new. Had a few issues with the ATC computer in the first year of owning it -fixed under warranty. I'm now 5 months outside my warranty period (60mo) and went to drive my car. Started fine, reversed fine, back into drive and going down the street - when it was going fast enough for the transmission to switch to second it grabbed hard like I hit the breaks and slowed me right down and dropped back down into 1st gear. Tried different RPMs, sport manual, disconnecting the battery for 15 minutes... no luck.
Towed it to a transmission place who said there are no error codes and a new transmission has to come from Texas and will be 5-6000 dollars plus shipping and work...
Just got it towed to a mazda dealer but I'm not optimistic.
Has anyone had this problem before? There was no lead up to this at all. Just happened. I drive my car pretty conservatively (5+years old with 59k km) and I'm feeling like I got lemoned hard on this.