5th gen acting wierd

[morgs202]

Ok, a friend of mine has an auto 5th gen prelude, and she called me today cause she was having a few issues. Apparantly, until it warmed up, it would all of a sudden drop back a gear for no reason. As in no extra throttle applied, just cruising along at the speed limit. The car is VERY overdue for a service so i'm wondering if it could be the tranny fluid. The problem seems to stop when the car has warmed up. cheers

Morgs

[6thgear]

is it a tiptronic? she should be paying particular attention to it and servicing it more regularly than not. drain and fresh tranny fluid may help. get it done ASAP

[morgs202]

Yeah, pretty much what I thought. Cheers for that!

[its_ish]

Get it checked by your trusted mechanic, sounds like the gearbox is on the way out. My brother had the same issue and shortly after the gearbox ceased. Apparently its a very common thing for triptronic gearboxes on VTI-R preludes specially once it has racked up a lot of k's.

[gerrard-from30yards]

if the car is VERY overdue for a service she deserves to have something **** up on her like this.

oh i lit my finger on fire and now it burnt off.

WHY DID IT BURN OFF??

jesus....