mecheng32
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Hey everyone. Just wanted to chime in and let everyone know the issues I was having with just a little under 5k miles on my brand new type r.
Just a little background. The car has:
Aftermarket lowering springs, exhaust, front pipe, and wheels.
Just over a month ago, I started hearing a metallic clicking sound from the front passenger wheel when turning hard left. This would happen at all speeds. Well long story short, I took the lower splash shield off to investigate and immediately found a trans leak coming from the axle input shaft and around the drain plug. However no leak from the trans drain plug. Took the car into the dealer and they advised that my clutch case housing casting had a casting line that was pourous and was leaking. It seemed like faulty manufacturing process.
Just got the car back after they replaced the clutch case, trans magnet, oil seals and spacers.
I have Honda defect code and symptom code.
Here’s the best part. The car shifts like a god damn wet dream now. It never shifted this nicely even from day 1. Granted I may be able to attribute some of the easy shifting to switching to redline synthetic trans fluid. But holy hell, no more 1-2 gear grind, no more notchy shifting and the car just shifts amazingly easy and fluid. As much as I hate the fact that my brand new car already has had a full trans replaced under warranty, the result is making me shift with glee around town.
Hopefully Honda will issue a tsb or recall for this issue as I believe this is the reason a lot of type r owners are complaining about the 1-2 gear grind.
Anyhoo, thanks for reading and I hope my misfortune helps someone out.
Just a little background. The car has:
Aftermarket lowering springs, exhaust, front pipe, and wheels.
Just over a month ago, I started hearing a metallic clicking sound from the front passenger wheel when turning hard left. This would happen at all speeds. Well long story short, I took the lower splash shield off to investigate and immediately found a trans leak coming from the axle input shaft and around the drain plug. However no leak from the trans drain plug. Took the car into the dealer and they advised that my clutch case housing casting had a casting line that was pourous and was leaking. It seemed like faulty manufacturing process.
Just got the car back after they replaced the clutch case, trans magnet, oil seals and spacers.
I have Honda defect code and symptom code.
Here’s the best part. The car shifts like a god damn wet dream now. It never shifted this nicely even from day 1. Granted I may be able to attribute some of the easy shifting to switching to redline synthetic trans fluid. But holy hell, no more 1-2 gear grind, no more notchy shifting and the car just shifts amazingly easy and fluid. As much as I hate the fact that my brand new car already has had a full trans replaced under warranty, the result is making me shift with glee around town.
Hopefully Honda will issue a tsb or recall for this issue as I believe this is the reason a lot of type r owners are complaining about the 1-2 gear grind.
Anyhoo, thanks for reading and I hope my misfortune helps someone out.
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