How is the new 06 WRX tranny? - Page 5

wrx1313 · 08-24-2006, 06:58 PM

My car drives great It has almost 8000 miles from when I bought it in may.. And I'm stg 2.. no problems here

ManicsWrX · 08-25-2006, 07:54 AM

Look at my power and info.. im on 18k miles.. ya i drive allot... I launched well over 45 times and hard launches at that with the current setup. No issues yet

DisWRXBoi · 09-09-2006, 05:01 PM

I brought mine two month ago and have not problem with the tanny, (knock on wood). I have 8500 miles on my wrx tr 06. I launch it every weekend.
On my home today I saw a red WRX 06 sitting on the side of the highway, some lady was in her car with the hazard ligths on. I was goin to pull over but it was to late. I wonder if her tanny blew up? Anyone think that would happen to her?

mxboy15u · 09-09-2006, 05:11 PM

Umm talking on the cell phone, flat tire, dead fuel pump, ran out of gas, how the hell are we supposed to know?!

NoHp4me · 09-09-2006, 07:35 PM

i confonted a suby employee when i was buyin my TR bout that tranny issue.... supposedly these trannys are out of the new Forester... no clue how strong they are though...

jabtsi · 09-09-2006, 09:18 PM

DSM's are notorious for bad trannys. I had to get mine rebuilt. No 2nd gear.

500 miles on my 06 no prob.

jabtsi · 09-09-2006, 09:23 PM

There is always ebay....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2006-...QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2006-...QQcmdZViewItem

mxboy15u · 09-09-2006, 09:26 PM

Whoa killer deal, and its over in just 1 day. damn...

nicmowrx · 09-09-2006, 10:32 PM

i dont think its super widespread problem myself i think some are just defective. hopefully not mine

mxboy15u · 09-10-2006, 12:16 AM

Its the same gearset as the 05 wrx, with more torque there will be more problems. But we all know where to get better gears....PPG FTW!

suddenthomas · 09-20-2006, 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by jabtsi

There is always ebay....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2006-...QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2006-...QQcmdZViewItem

This tranny ended up as a scam. If its to good to be true than 9 times out of 10 it isn't true.

awd>fwd · 09-20-2006, 08:02 PM

Well, I got my car back, got an RA gearset, the shop talked me out of the PPG's and into the RA. Apparently every single tooth from 3rd gear was gone...that's just not right. The RA is nice, louder gears than stock, wish they were a little louder.

mxboy15u · 09-20-2006, 08:44 PM

Why would they talk you out of PPG? Thousands of dollars into a tranny, I don't want it to ever break again. You basically have the same gearset as before in there. There are so many broken ra sets its not even funny.

need2boost · 09-20-2006, 09:54 PM

well I had 4,000 miles on my 06 and 1,000 on a 280whp set-up, toasted third passing a car not even under full throttle. got a Ra-spec tranny now that seems to be really nice, much better gear ratio's than stock 06'. I even went as far to hire an engineer to look at my busted tranny and they said it was a wicked curve on third with about 370 ft/lbs of torque that the 2.5 pumps out that caused it to shreed every tooth off 3rd.

awd>fwd · 09-20-2006, 10:09 PM

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Originally Posted by need2boost

well I had 4,000 miles on my 06 and 1,000 on a 280whp set-up, toasted third passing a car not even under full throttle. got a Ra-spec tranny now that seems to be really nice, much better gear ratio's than stock 06'. I even went as far to hire an engineer to look at my busted tranny and they said it was a wicked curve on third with about 370 ft/lbs of torque that the 2.5 pumps out that caused it to shreed every tooth off 3rd.

Sounds pretty familiar, but I wansn't making the power you were. I think the RA will be enough for me. I drive my car like it has a weak tranny...no launches.