- #2004 pontiac vibe manual transmission problems crack#
- #2004 pontiac vibe manual transmission problems windows#
#2004 pontiac vibe manual transmission problems crack#
What I do know is that it's gonna set me back about $1000, which ain't nice, but I figured it's about as cheap as it gets if they have to crack open the transmission. I'm sorry to say I don't know much about transmissions and the guy had an accent and was a mumbler, so I didn't really understand what he was telling me. As I was driving, it definitely seemed like the noise was getting worse and the clickity-clack noise had turned into a more definitive grinding noise. I went to the dealer over lunch, who of course was too busy to look at it right away. I'm going to get a second opinion somewhere that specializes in transmissions after work today.Any thoughts on the cause? Thanks! He didn't seem to think it was a big deal since it was so quiet, but I'm not convinced. Hard to say if that's just psychosomatic because I'm getting so sensitive about it.I already had a mechanic at Midas take a test drive while I was in for an oil change. It sounds like it's doing it a little (slower) even while coasting in gear, maybe even a tiny bit while coasting in neutral. The noise speeds up and slows down in sync with the car. It's most noticeable while in gear, not while shifting, not while coasting or revving the engine in neutral. I first noticed it in 4th and 5th gears, but now I can hear it in all gears.
#2004 pontiac vibe manual transmission problems windows#
It's pretty quiet if the radio's up or the windows are down it's hard to hear. The best approximation I can give is that it's sort of a clicky-clack sound, like a baseball card on spokes or a train going down the tracks from a distance. A few weeks ago I started noticing a very faint noise while in gear. I don’t think a manual transmission is available on a Ford F-150 pickup truck any more.Hello all, I've been looking through some threads here about transmission noise but I'm not sure if my issue is quite the same as what I've read.My '03 Vibe has a 5-speed manual transmission. My guess is that even today, the manual transmission on many low end cars may be a step-child. These transmissions have a floor shift and were designed for the powerful engines. Of course, the heavy duty 4 speed transmissions of the 1960s and later are a different story. One popular item back in the 1960s was a floor shift conversion kit because the column shift linkages were so bad. When Pontiac introduced the manual transmisson for its 1948 model, 80% of the 1948 Pontiacs sold had the GM Hydramatic automatic transmission. The manufacturers were pushing automatic transmissions. On the other hand, my 1947 Pontiac, 1948 Dodge and 1954 Buick manual transmissions shifted very smoothly. In many cars, including my 1955 Pontiac and 1965 Rambler, the column shift linkages were terrible. The transmissions were designed in the late 1930s and hadn’t been improved for the more powerful engines. Many cars from the late 1950s through the mid 1960s had three speed manual transmissions that were troublesome. I suspect that since most cars are equipped with the automatic transmission, the manual transmission cars are omitted from the transmission category. As I remember the questionaire that I fill out from CR, the questionaire does ask whether or not the car has an automatic transmission. There used to be a category titled “Clutch” that isn’t there any more. Get a copy today.Ĭonsumer Reports hasn’t split out manual transmissions from automatic transmissions for at least ten years. I love the magazine, available everywhere magazines are sold. I have been a Subscriber for many decades. Of participants in the survey, could the folks with automatics and no major problems in that pool have blurred or skewed the entire category so that the number with manual transmissions and trouble was rendered less significant ? I don’t see any break-out of manual transmissions from the category "transmission." What’s your theory on why the repairs don’t seem to fix the problems ? What number of the owners of those vehicles took place in the survey ? What percentage of Vibes had manual transmissions compred with automatic transmissions ?
Were there, in fact, 50,000 03-Vibes with manual transmissions sold ? Where are you getting these numbers from ? Would a 0.2% failure rate even register in Consumer Reports stats? " " If 0.2% of the 50,000 owners have this problem, and 25% of those 100 owners get on the internet and make a lot of noise…
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