Having trans problems

I doubt it. Popping out of gears is a notorious symptom of synchro issues.

Does it get any better when the car is warmed up compared to when you first start the car?

Sometimes a clutch-release fork can cause improper disengagement of the clutch itself and summon problems that resemble other issues. Check my fork thread a few below this. Mine was worn to shit, though, and I had no popping out of gear issues. Just some slight grinding due to the clutch not being full disengaged.

 

sounds like sychro's maybe or maybe u can re adjust the shifter cables on the shifter

 

A friend was mentioning something about adjust the shifter cables, cause he heard of someone in the club doing that.

 

It's actually worst when the car is warmed up. It drives and shifts better when I first start driving. My car is not liking the rush hour traffic I deal with every morning I guess.

 

Align the crossover cable under the shifter boot to dead neutral and see what happens.

 

I had to do a lot of stop and go traffic on Sunday and the car got worse from it. Once the car is cooled down it shifts and drives fine, but after I do more stop and go traffic it gets hard to put into 1st gear and sometimes 2nd wouldn't go so I would do 1st up to 3500rpm and shift to 3rd and then 3rd to 4th was giving me a problem also. When I downshift 3rd to 2nd it's fine. It doesn't like 5th to 4th downshifts so much either. I might try and flush the trans fluid out and put fresh fluild and see if it makes even a little difference in the shifts.

 

Trans fluid swap will probably help the issues a bit, but this is beyond old transmission fluid. If it keeps getting worse, you are having part failure and ware. You could take the inspection plate off of the transmission (where the shifter cables attach) and check inside to see if there's any shift fork or gearing ware that's noticeable there. Though that's a small part of the entire part if the innards of your transmission, if you can see an issue there, then you know where to begin on the fix.

 

I will be having a new clutch installed once I get my S3 installed so I'm trying to figure out the problem so that way I can get the parts to fix it while getting the new clutch installed so I don't have to take it apart twice. I might just take it to the dealer once I get a hold of a stock shifter and see if they can give me any idea on what's the problem. It only happens during stop and go traffic and I'm sure the dealer is going to waste a lot of my gas for the car is act up for them.

 

Like I said in the other thread. It is worth the 10 min it would take to try the adjustment for the clutch. I don't know if it will help your problem or not, but it is an easy first step to try to fix the issue.

 

The latest update on the trans is that when i was at lunch I was trying to back in a spot and reverse wouldn't go in. I tryed pushing the clutch down to the floor and I would try shift from 1st to 2nd to Neutral to 3rd to 4th to 5th to Reverse and I would get a chattering noise and vibrating feeling in the shifter in every gear except 1st. I'm thinking it's probably the sychros now.

 

Take that bitch out, bro. I had a crossover (neutral) cable completely off-alignment and didn't have issues this severe. Things are just getting worse. Take it to the dealer and have them assess the issue and see what can be done about it, but first, swap out that shifter. The last thing you want them to do is blame the transmission issues on a short-throw shifter. They voided my friend's warranty for transmission repair because he had an aftermarket fuel system. We finally found a dealership that didn't care, but that was downright ridiculous.

 

Well, the lastest update on the car is that I'm having the trans fluild changed cause it seems kinda low and was dirty but no metal shavings were found in the drain pan. I stuck my magnet into the fluid and didn't notice anything like metal shavings. I'm also going to try and adjust my clutch pedal as some more people in my club think I should try doing that also to make sure.

 

Yeah check the easy shit first.

Trans fluid
Shifter cables / clutch cable, etc.
Master/Slave cylinder

Also try resetting your shifter to dead neutral. You do that by putting the car IN neutral, pulling the center console, and loosening that screw on the bottom-middle part of the shifter assembly, on the driver's side. Then SLOWLY tighten it. I did this once and when I loosened it, it moved maybe 2cm to the left so it was totally off dead center for neutral. This can throw your shifts off and make switching gears impossible.

 

It's all better now. I got the trans fluid changed and took it for a 30 minutes of stop and go driving. Just as I was starting to drive back to my house it starting acting up again. So I tryed messing with the clutch pedal and pulled it all the way back. I took it for a drive except this time I did a 1st gear roll to see if I can grab 2nd and once I did 3 times, I know it was fixed. Also reverse is working out better now. So I'm guessing it was mostly due to adjusting the clutch pedal and I feel the trans fluid helped a bit too. I made a last minute switch and decided to run the Mopar ATF+4 fluid instead of Royal Purple.

 

Cool glad it worked. Thats all the same stuff that mine was doing and the pedle adjustment work.