I just bought a 1995 protege for my son for school travel. It has the 1.5 engine and is a Dx model . We bought it from a estate sale and the lady who owed it had it in the garage but only drove it to church and around town, so it has only 58000 miles on it. I had the tranny flushed and filter changed, oil changed and radiator flushed before we drove it home 400 miles. It ran good but I did notice it would get to about 60mph before going into the last gear on the freeway. All the other gears seem fine and shift easily and smoothly. Lately my son says he has to take his foot off the accelerator at about 60 to get it to go into the last gear. Anyone have any idea what could be causing this? I was thinking a shift solenoid but since this doesn't have a OBDII in it I'm not getting any code.

 

If it doesn't have OBD2, it will have OBD1.

 

Yes, it does have obd II I think.It has a OBD II connector but my code reader just keeps coming up P1000 which is an advisory code that indicates that the PCM was recently reset and the OBDII self-tests have not yet completed. But, I haven't reset anything since I got it and it's been driven over 400 miles.