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treerexaudi Official · 03-28-2019, 06:42 PM

I will try to keep this as short as possible, and sorry in advance if I may have put this under the wrong forum category. I own a 2018 BRZ with the performance package. It was bought new with some minor things which of one was fixed by the dealer that I can state if need be, but they are merely cosmetic. Main point, bought new with only 50 miles. While shifting this car like most of the variants it seems to not want to go into first or second when cold or warmed up. But here is the thing. Whenever I shift into third, and sometimes second or fourth, the car wants to hesitate, and rocks back and fourth, and after the 4th time rocking back and fourth it starts to go smoothly again, but by then I am already going to shift into the next gear. I have taken others advice about slipping the clutch. Which I myself thought was VERY VERY BAD for the transmission and clutch plates, but the argument of using up brakes and replacing them like a clutch gets brought up. I will add that I have a 30 year old corolla, and it is stick like the brz, and I can bang the clutch in and out, shift fast and everything is smooth. (Yes if I mess up it isn't of course). There is simply no way to shift fast or let the clutch out slowly and smoothly in the BRZ however (with rev matching or even double clutching). It stills is rough in 1st and 2nd no matter what and quite frequently it rocks back and fourth a couple of times like hesitating when shifting into 2nd 3rd or 4th. I would also like to add I have never slipped the clutch between shifts until I acquired the BRZ. Going from a stop to 1st is one thing, but slipping the clutch between every gear just to get it to be smooth.

This has nothing to do with all that I guess, but if anyone here has an ft86z with a brembo or a big brake kit, it is hard to heel toe downshift? Whenever I touch the brakes as light as possible the car seems to want to come to a halt, and I just have to coast in neutral, or I would have to be downshifting through three gears extremely fast (to fast for the abilities that I currently have, I don't want to break something).

03-28-2019, 06:42 PM	#1
treerexaudi Official Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2018 Drives: Hachi n' BRZ Location: ca Posts: 6 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Weird shifting? Maybe? Please tell me I am wrong. I will try to keep this as short as possible, and sorry in advance if I may have put this under the wrong forum category. I own a 2018 BRZ with the performance package. It was bought new with some minor things which of one was fixed by the dealer that I can state if need be, but they are merely cosmetic. Main point, bought new with only 50 miles. While shifting this car like most of the variants it seems to not want to go into first or second when cold or warmed up. But here is the thing. Whenever I shift into third, and sometimes second or fourth, the car wants to hesitate, and rocks back and fourth, and after the 4th time rocking back and fourth it starts to go smoothly again, but by then I am already going to shift into the next gear. I have taken others advice about slipping the clutch. Which I myself thought was VERY VERY BAD for the transmission and clutch plates, but the argument of using up brakes and replacing them like a clutch gets brought up. I will add that I have a 30 year old corolla, and it is stick like the brz, and I can bang the clutch in and out, shift fast and everything is smooth. (Yes if I mess up it isn't of course). There is simply no way to shift fast or let the clutch out slowly and smoothly in the BRZ however (with rev matching or even double clutching). It stills is rough in 1st and 2nd no matter what and quite frequently it rocks back and fourth a couple of times like hesitating when shifting into 2nd 3rd or 4th. I would also like to add I have never slipped the clutch between shifts until I acquired the BRZ. Going from a stop to 1st is one thing, but slipping the clutch between every gear just to get it to be smooth. This has nothing to do with all that I guess, but if anyone here has an ft86z with a brembo or a big brake kit, it is hard to heel toe downshift? Whenever I touch the brakes as light as possible the car seems to want to come to a halt, and I just have to coast in neutral, or I would have to be downshifting through three gears extremely fast (to fast for the abilities that I currently have, I don't want to break something).