Pontiac says its a Normal Characteristic.
09-28-2004, 05:35 PM
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Pontiac says its a Normal Characteristic. Ive recently had problems with the reverse in my 02 firehawk. Its been in and out of the shop now several times in the past 6 weeks. Dealer insists the problem is a "normal characteristic" of the manual transmission.
The problem started about 8 weeks ago. Seems all of a sudden the transmission would'nt go into reverse without first puting into first. Otherwise the gears would grind when you let the clutch out. I was told by some here that the syncroniser is most likely the cuase. After another trip to the shop, I was again told its normal, and reverse is NOT syncronised. I KNOW it cant be normal. I had a 99 ramair and never had this problem withit. Ive had this car 2 years and never had this problem before now. Seems it started over night, just one day all of a sudden I went to put it in Reverse and I felt resistance, couldnt force it, so shifted in and out of first and second, then into reverse. Seems thats the only way it will go.
Has anyone experience a similar problem with Reverse?
The problem started about 8 weeks ago. Seems all of a sudden the transmission would'nt go into reverse without first puting into first. Otherwise the gears would grind when you let the clutch out. I was told by some here that the syncroniser is most likely the cuase. After another trip to the shop, I was again told its normal, and reverse is NOT syncronised. I KNOW it cant be normal. I had a 99 ramair and never had this problem withit. Ive had this car 2 years and never had this problem before now. Seems it started over night, just one day all of a sudden I went to put it in Reverse and I felt resistance, couldnt force it, so shifted in and out of first and second, then into reverse. Seems thats the only way it will go.
Has anyone experience a similar problem with Reverse?
09-28-2004, 05:40 PM
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Sometimes mine does something similar... I go to put it into reverse, and it feels like there's a "stop" there. Basically it just won't go in all the way, just kind of goes in part way and if I let the clutch out thinking it's all the way in, it grinds. When I feel that resistance, I put it back into neutral, take my foot off the clutch, then re-engage the clutch and push it into reverse... it goes in fine when I do that.
09-28-2004, 06:00 PM
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Thats prety much what mines doing. Like I said, Ive never had this problem up intil about 8 weeks ago. Then it seems all of a sudden it started and now it does it just about every time.
09-28-2004, 08:26 PM
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There was a few times when I first got my car that I parked it in first instead of reverse, and had a little trouble getting it in reverse. It never grinded though, just had to apply light pressure for a few seconds to get it in. Of course, the manual says to park your car in reverse, so you shouldn't have that trouble 
09-28-2004, 08:46 PM
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Do a search in the right forum and you will get exactly what you wanted in this case.
"GM says trany problem normal"
https://ls1tech.com/forums/showthrea...hlight=reverse
"GM says trany problem normal"
https://ls1tech.com/forums/showthrea...hlight=reverse
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09-29-2004, 06:19 PM
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Originally Posted by 1_BadHawk
and which forum would that be, the not so happy with the dealer forum?