Transmission Slip Out Of Gear Problems of Mazda MAZDA3

Sometimes the shifter jumps out of 3rd gear over a road bump when accelerating after deceleration at 30-40 mph. It always happens while city/suburb driving. It's startling when it happens and I try to quickly put the car back in a gear. It wasn't happening that frequently but now it's about 1x/month. This first happened a few years ago.

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My car twice in one day shifted out of gear and became unresponsive when I tried to use the accelerator. I was on a surface street making a u turn the first time, and had made a right turn the second time. I took it to my mechanic after the first time it happened. He told me it was the module in my automatic transmission that was sending a faulty signal. There is a recall for other 2016 Mazda 3 vehicles for this problem, but my VIN isn't included, so a Mazda dealer I called refused to fix it unless I paid for it.

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Have had a situation occur about a dozen times since I purchased new in July 2010 with 93 miles - now at ~35500 miles. When coming to a stop on a cold engine that has only been running about 2-3 minutes, clutch pushed in to shift out of gear and brakes applied engine will rev to ~2500 rpm and it will stay there for about 3-4 seconds. First few times it happened I figured I hit the gas as well as the brake, after that I began to check my foot position on occurrence and my foot was nowhere near the accelerator. This has not caused any problems with a car accelerating on its own as it typically occurs as I am pushing the clutch in to come to a stop. Only happens when the engine is still cold (generally the first stop of the day) and is very random when it occurs. Have not brought to attention of dealership as there are no common factors to be able to reproduce the problem. Upon notice of other complaints for this issue I wanted to add my own experience.

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