Traffic driving dynamics

[xbbnx]

Okay so I've had my Si for 3 weeks now and currently clocking right around 1330 miles, still getting to know her a bit. I took it to work for the first time a few days ago and on my way back got stuck in pretty slow stop and go traffic which required a lot of first gear crawling paces. I did notice that my car seems to "surge" a lot in first gear, in layman's terms, a lot of "herky jerky" movements when crawling in first. It seems to really not like being in that gear at those slow speeds. Now coming from a 2015 naturally aspirated Si I didn't have that issue being in first gear in stop and go traffic (maybe a little but very manageable and not at all this bad), so I wonder if its normal and just the turbo engine being a turbo engine (first turbo car). Does anybody else experience this mostly first gear, and sometimes second gear herky jerky movements at slow traffic-like speeds?

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[invader]

What type of gasoline are you running? 91 pump octane (95 RON)? You're not in Sport mode?

 

[xbbnx]

What type of gasoline are you running? 91 pump octane (95 RON)? You're not in Sport mode?

91 pump octane without sport mode

 

[invader]

Inspect front motor mount to see if it started to rip and fail.

http://www.civicx.com/threads/am-i-the-first-broken-motor-mount.13574/

Rear motor mount upgrade over stock torque damper is available, which greatly reduces engine flex and herky jerky powertrain sloppiness.

http://www.boombaracing.com/engine-16/

http://hasport.com/store/index.php/fcrr.html

 

[Vrruumm]

Inspect front motor mount to see if it started to rip and fail.

http://www.civicx.com/threads/am-i-the-first-broken-motor-mount.13574/#post-251690

Rear motor mount upgrade over stock torque damper is available, which greatly reduces engine flex and herky jerky powertrain sloppiness.

http://www.boombaracing.com/engine-16/

http://hasport.com/store/index.php/fcrr.html

Is the ripping or failure of the front motor mount common on the 10th gen?

 

[invader]

Is the ripping or failure of the front motor mount common on the 10th gen?

Not really.

http://www.civicx.com/threads/am-i-the-first-broken-motor-mount.13574/

 

[Cheesus_Si]

Okay so I've had my Si for 3 weeks now and currently clocking right around 1330 miles, still getting to know her a bit. I took it to work for the first time a few days ago and on my way back got stuck in pretty slow stop and go traffic which required a lot of first gear crawling paces. I did notice that my car seems to "surge" a lot in first gear, in layman's terms, a lot of "herky jerky" movements when crawling in first. It seems to really not like being in that gear at those slow speeds. Now coming from a 2015 naturally aspirated Si I didn't have that issue being in first gear in stop and go traffic (maybe a little but very manageable and not at all this bad), so I wonder if its normal and just the turbo engine being a turbo engine (first turbo car). Does anybody else experience this mostly first gear, and sometimes second gear herky jerky movements at slow traffic-like speeds?

happens to me too

 

[kritz]

Mine is the same as well.

 

[Stealthy86]

This is typical in turbo vehicles. 1st is just to get you moving.

 

[simulatedwoodgrain]

Does anybody else experience this mostly first gear, and sometimes second gear herky jerky movements at slow traffic-like speeds?

Mine was the same way, however, after flashing a ktuner tune on it with rev-hang disabled and throttle padding set to medium, I no longer have this issue. The factory tune is pretty far off for drive ability at throttle tip in.

 

[splat]

I haven't noticed an issue with low-speed first gear driving. Maybe you're still getting used to the super-light clutch and throttle? My previous daily driver was very similar, so switching to the Si was not a big learning curve.

 

[ricoxg]

I thought this was a common thing with manuals - that being in first gear has that "jerkiness" to it and is very sensitive to throttle.

 

[Doc_C]

I'm gonna file this under seat → steering wheel/pedals interface error

 

[serif]

I'm gonna file this under seat → steering wheel/pedals interface error

AKA a PEBCAK error

 

[xbbnx]

I'm gonna file this under seat → steering wheel/pedals interface error

Not sure what this means?

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