I experienced a spooky thing a couple days ago..... and remember, my Accent is brand new (about 900 miles on it). I found myself in one of those situations where it was better to punch the gas {to avoid an idiot driver} than to hit the brakes. {you know... the type of situation that a lame driver would hit the brakes for anyway, making a bad situation worse}.

So, my tranny drops down to a "way" lower gear, and completely revs out ! Geez, I hate to do that to a brand new, not even completely broke in motor :-( In somewhat of a panic, I instantly back off on the throttle. So the scary thing was, for about 1 to 2 seconds, it felt like the tranny had jumped completely out of gear ! But in retrospect, I think what happend, was that the tranny had shifted to where it thought I wanted it to be..... but then, when I immediatly let back off, of the throttle, I confused it.
Finally, after completly letting off the throttle for a second, I gave it some gas, and it took off normally, in the apropriate gear.

Also in retrospect, I remember having this happen a couple in my automatic Geo Metro as well. When I told my mechanic about this, he said he has even had this happen in his Toyota Highlander.

Anybody here ever experience this with their Accent ???

Just curious,
Fish
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