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Originally Posted by marksi07
My 07 Si's transmission behaves differently in the cold. Cold starting, the car seems to buck a bit when initially accerlating and the 2nd thru 6th gears are difficult to downshift and upshift. Only when the car is thoroughly warmed up ( about 5 or 6 bars on the oil gauge ) does the car drive normal.
Seems to happen when it is cold out. When it is warm out, the car's transmission is normal.
No noises have been detected either.
I was wondering if anyone else has had similar experiences with their Si's transmissions?
I brought the car to my dealership two times. The last time I left the car overnight so they could cold start it first thing in the morning ( since the early morning its the coldest ) but they claim that they never had any problems ( bs if you ask me ) and couldn't find any problems.
Any suggestions on what to do next? contact Corporate Honda? bring it to another Honda dealer?
I've been driving for 20 years now ( I'm 37 ) and have been driving Honda vehicles for the past 10 years. My 07 Si is my 4th straight Honda vehicle ( and all have been manual transmissions also). ( 98 Acura Integra GSR; 98 Honda Prelude; 05 Acura RSX Type S ). All had the cold air intake also ( the 05 Acura had the AEM V2 intake ). All of my previous Honda vehicles never gave me any problems whatsoever and have never behaved like my current 07 Si's.
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these Si transmissions are touchy. it will be hard to throw into gear untill, like u said, u hit 5 or 6 bars on the heat gauge. honestly just shift at 3k-3.5k till its warmed up. now the bucking is also normal do to the high compression of the engine (correct me if im wrong). this also needs to reach the 5/6 bars of heat till it is running normal, so basically when everything is at 5 bars your car will run smooth, untill then u just have to baby it. it requires alota attention but its an Si..but all this is normal so dont worry, there are no recalls or anything most all of us with Si's experience this, even i do and i live in FL, and its starting to get colder here..the tranny and engine just need some TLC and heat