Gear Box Probelms

[Speedster502]

I have searched the forum and I can't find any thing like my probelm. So here it is.

This morning I decided to get my steering wheel out which is a Fanatec Speedster 3. I went onto GT4 and for the first hour or so it was fine, I was using manual gear using the flappy paddles.

Then I decided I needed to take some shots of the Golf R32 for a competition. So I went to my garage and changed to it. As soon as I got on the track things started to play up mainly concerning the gear box. I was running it through the gears and I got to 4th gear suddenly it skipped the whole of 5th gear and put me into 6th. I was only going 64mph. I then quit and changed the gear box back to automatic. It made no difference at all, it was still skipping gears.

Then I tried a different car to se if it was just the car. It was still the same in auto and manual. I don't know what is going on, I don't know if it is GT4 playing up or my wheel. It is a good racing wheel and this is the first time I have ever came across probelms with it. If you guys could suggest what to do I would be very great full.
Thanks
Speedster502

 

[sukerkin]

That's an odd one speedster.

Wheels with paddle gerashifts do sometimes have problems with skipping gears whilst manual shifting but I've never heard of it hapening with the gearbox set to auto.

I'd try and isolate where the problem lies by trying other cars first to see if they behave the same and then driving the R32 on manual using the DS2 controller.

If the problem goes away with the DS2 then you know the wheel is at fault.

 

[Speedster502]

That's an odd one speedster.

Wheels with paddle gerashifts do sometimes have problems with skipping gears whilst manual shifting but I've never heard of it hapening with the gearbox set to auto.

I'd try and isolate where the problem lies by trying other cars first to see if they behave the same and then driving the R32 on manual using the DS2 controller.

If the problem goes away with the DS2 then you know the wheel is at fault.

I will try that later on today when I next go on GT4. I haven't had the steering wheel that long either which also confuses me, it has no damage to any of the paddles either so I am dreadfully confused.

 

[Dracwolley]

What? You mean, you didn't know about the R32 Gearbox glitch?

4th and 5th gear are the same.

You probably shifted out of fourth and into fifth gear.
You probably didn't think you did.
So you shifted again.
You thought the gear was low, so you looked, and it was in sixth.

And Automatic transmission always skips fifth.
It's told to shift at the red line, so if shifts and the redline fourth, and because the redline of fifth is the same, it shifts there too, almost no time at all after it shifted into fifth.

 

[Brock5000]

Are you sure about that? I thought it was the 'new' Golf GTi that has that problem. I didn't notice it on the R32 when I was playing with it the other night, but I'll check next time I fire up the game.

If not the game, then it may just be an occasional compatibility problem with that brand of wheel.

 

[Muzaffar]

Its the R32 for sure.I read it somewhere in this forum that the R32 has 2 final gears,1st was 1-4 and the 2nd was 5-6.So that made the fifth gear almost non-existent (i think) I don't know if it was a glitch (its the same problem from GT3) or maybe the R32 has only five gear.Maybe try and adjust the gear ratio and see what happens from there.....

 

[Speedster502]

What? You mean, you didn't know about the R32 Gearbox glitch?

4th and 5th gear are the same.

You probably shifted out of fourth and into fifth gear.
You probably didn't think you did.
So you shifted again.
You thought the gear was low, so you looked, and it was in sixth.

And Automatic transmission always skips fifth.
It's told to shift at the red line, so if shifts and the redline fourth, and because the redline of fifth is the same, it shifts there too, almost no time at all after it shifted into fifth.

The wheel seems fine now, I haven't driven the R32 again though. When driving the other cars I own it seems fine. I suppose it was just a glitch. I will try the R32 again some other time. But thanks for your help guys. I will keep you posted on what happens next time when I drive the R32. As I was saying earlier it was for a competition (CCCL Week 19) so I suppose I won't end up driving it again. The car itself was a dissapointment I thought it was going to be more "alive" but it doesn't feel lively at all, just slow and sluggish. But thanks for your help guys!

 

[Brock5000]

What? You mean, you didn't know about the R32 Gearbox glitch?

4th and 5th gear are the same.

Its the R32 for sure.I read it somewhere in this forum that the R32 has 2 final gears,1st was 1-4 and the 2nd was 5-6.

Gentlemen, I am sorry to say that you are both incorrect. Actual testing beats wild speculation and poor memories any day.

The Volkswagen Golf IV R32 of 2003 has a six speed gearbox that works flawlessly, I can assure you of that. I just purchased a shiny new silver one and tested it myself (on the 'Ring, of course). The settings were bone stock, as they say, with nary an oil change or modification to be had. However driving aids were disabled to remove any possible restriction on top speeds. Allow me to elaborate with some cold hard data.

1st gear takes the car to a maximum speed of 57 km/h.
2nd gear takes it to 93 km/h before the rev limiter cuts in and stops further acceleration.
3rd gear allows the car to reach a speed of 133 km/h before forward momentum ceases.
4th gear brings the speed up to 181 km/h, at which the tachometer is reading approximately 6,500 rpm.
Changing up into 5th gear drops the revs to 5,500 rpm, which rises to 6,500 at a maximum speed of 228 km/h.
6th gear then drops the revs back to 5,500, whereupon the speed continues to slowly increase with acceleration until one runs out of road.

If you do not believe me, by my guest and take the car for a drive and surely you will see for yourself. I think you will be pleasantly surprised and revise your opinion.

As I previously suggested, it is the 2005 model Mark V Golf GTi that has gremlins in its gearbox. No doubt this has been discussed many times previously on this forum. Indeed, I once went to the trouble of finding what the actual gear ratios are on the real car; they can be found in this post in the Tuning section.

Thank you for your time and have a nice day


P.S. The photo competition to which speedster502 alludes can be found here.

 

[shangoob]

same thing happen on skyline concept ,especially when you use the NOS
the gear will not shift by it self at auto transmission ,I don't know what is happening .maybe it just was the ratios gear

 

[Muzaffar]

Yeah.....i think it was the GT3 version (i may be wrong again....) but anyways,hope Brock5000 did solve your problem speedster502.And good lock in your CCCL competition 👍