My wife's 2016 Mazda3 i-Sport base model with 53,000 miles recently developed rough/hard shifting.
When the car has sat for the engine/transmission to completely cool, upon restarting and driving the car shifts hard.
When changing from reverse to drive it sometimes takes up to 4 seconds for the drive gear to engage.
Likewise, once in drive shifting is often hard, with slight to moderate jolting.
However, once the "cold" icon goes away, the car shifts and drives perfectly fine.
I am getting the "lifetime" (BS) transmission fluid changed as we speak. Once my mechanic has sealed the pan, cures, and fills it I will know if this fixed the issue.
I am not too familiar with Mazda, I have always owned Hondas. Is this something to be concerned about, or should this fluid change resolve the issue?
If after fluid change, the shifting issues (delay in shifting and the jolting) continue, take the car to a transmission pro for further diagnosis.
Well, I'll pray that helps. Just realized Mazda's have always had notoriously weak automatic transmissions which is one reason I told people not to buy the older ones but recently they had a deal. Going with Toyota in the newer ones are quite a bit better
Well, if the valve body / solenoids are already full of wear materials - a repair is unavoidable.
I am not too familiar with Mazda, I have always owned Hondas
Well Honda also has “lifetime fluid” in their CVTs but they fail super fast once you don’t service them.
I am not too familiar with Mazda
Mazda automatics are solid given proper service, much more solid than most of their competition.
MODERN automatic transmissions fail really fast when you don’t service them for 60K+ miles.
