I've developed a troubling "buzz" which seems to be coming from the shifter area. Yesterday, as I was pulling into the grocery store, I heard a pop in the transmission tunnel which sounded like a stone hitting the inside of the tunnel. I looked under the car, but couldn't see anything. I figured that I had somehow kicked something up from the road. Well, since then I sporadically get a buzzing which sounds like something lightweight, ala two washers buzzing together or something. It happens randomly in any gear (at least 1-4 anyway) as I'm accelerating, at any rpm (but usually 4-6krpm). I haven't heard it during deceleration. I can feel it slightly throught the shifter. It's loud enought that my wife was like "oh, I heard that!" But is still shifts just fine and I haven't lost any performance, I just don't know for how long. BTW, I have an '04, manual trans ovbiously.

I couldn't find any similar experiences with the search function. Anyone have a clue?

 

I had a weird buzz that turned out to be my shift ****. The metal at the top popped loose and would vibrate at various RPMs

 

I'll have to take the **** off and taker her for a run. It sounded lower in mechanism, but who knows.

 

I have a 04 rx8 automatic and recently i have been having trouble with a whining noise coming from my transmission or at least i think the noise is coming from there. It goes into gear but as soon as it warms up it tends to not shift into gear and as i accelerate the whining noise gets louder. Have any of you guys come across this problem? Any suggestions?

 

I get the shift **** noise too!....try to take it for a cruise without that!

 

LOL, sometimes it's the simplest things. I took the **** off and went for a spin. The buzzing was completely gone. What a relief. Turns out that the **** had one more revolution of tightening it, so now that I've really cranked it down, the buzzing has not returned.

On a side note, I can't believe how easy this car is to shift even without a ****. I was actually shifting with one finger on the top of the bare shifter shaft. I don't think I could do that with any of my previous cars. This car amazes me every day.