My Mazda3 does this exact same thing. What did you find out???

 

My car does it as well but i have an 04 2.0 with the 4 speed auto and when its cold out it does the same thing. personally i don't think its a big deal by the time i leave my subdivision its shifting smooth and fine. On a cold day you just run out to your car and start drive right away it will always do it. its done it in just about every car i've driven with a auto or auto manual...espeically if you put it in manual mode.. I've gotten in my car on a cold day start driving shift in to second around 2500 and won't actually shift untill about 3200.

Its cold, just cold starts in the engine oil settles and thickens up so does transmission fluid let your car warm up for about 3-5min before driving and you'll be fine...When you drive right away you pretty much driving on a dry transmission.

When you get in your car and drive right away and you shift it into drive does your transmission drop really hard into gear? Same reason why.

 

So it still does it and isn't any worse? It just doesn't seem normal at all. Even when it's 90 degrees out and I have driven it 8 hours ago, it still does it twice before it goes smoothly. Have you ever taken yours in for this problem?

 

No, mine only does it in the cold. Or like now in the summer time after i let my car sit overnight and i get in the next morning and crank it and throw it in drive as fast as I possibly can it will do it. But I would suggest never doing that.

The 4 speed auto transmissions are kinda known, or from what i've read anyway, to be pretty sloppy transmissions. I have an 04 2.0 4 speed and its a first year first gen car but i've noticed 05-06-07's have the same problems. I've actually already gone through one transmission in this car at 90,000 miles. I drive the car normally about 75% and drive it hard 25%. By normal driving I mean, easy starts and stops keeping it drive, no manual, shifting under 3k. Mind you at 70,000 miles i had a complete transmission tune up done, fluid, flush, filter, everything by MAZDA as well.

When I took the car into the dealer they said, quote unquote, "Your front differential is literally turning to dust in my hands."

After they had the adjustor come out and look at my car for warranty work they finally approved it even though i had 90,000 miles when i had the 100,000 mile warranty. Instead of giving me a new front differential they decided to give me a brand new transmission. Total cost, close to $5,000. Price for me = $100. Yay warranty.

I surprised they just didn't trash my car but they said my car was work $9,200, although i don't see how for a complete strip down model no power anything. The only options the original owner had was "upgraded" 15's rims and auto transmission.