Can any of you say 100% for sure that it's not positive feedback from the motion jerking your foot on the throttle?

 

My experience is very similar to Johnny B Goode. First time the bucking occurred was a couple of days after I bought the car and it has continued through 2 years of ownership. N.B. it is the second anniversary of the S2ks release in Australia this week - my car was 2 years old on Tuesday.

I find that it mainly occurs when I have been sitting in stop/start traffic for about 5 minutes and then try to take off - even changing up to second it will still buck. Honda Aust claims no knowledge of a problem of course.

As a matter of fact my very first post to the old HA.Net board was to ask whether other owners experienced this - at the time I was convinced my Honda was the only one with this problem but alas not so.

There have been a few threads started by an owner from the Philippines (I forget his name). He has a few theories - apparently it is causing him real problems in peak hour Manila traffic.

 

Yes I can.

 

I can also

 

OK, like the brakes sticking after washing, I guess I'll just have to be glad that this is something my car doesn't do

 

I know I have no intention of "living" with this. I have had lots of high performance cars including HSVs which generate a lot of underbonnet heat, etc., and none have ever done anything like this.

The car goes in for the 30K service next Wednesday and this will be top of the list.

 

OK, I would be interested to know what they say. Mine is in for $15k service on Friday next week and I will also raise it. I'll post the outcome

 

Hey Naishou, I'm with you on this one again ... My S2K doesn't do this as well. Boy, am I glad. On the other hand, I don't have an explanation as well because I have no experience with it.

 

Mine does it occasionally, but then so did my BMW318is. I put it down to not giving it enough revs when releasing the clutch. Or in other words, driver error. Mine you, I must look like a bucking idiot.

 

My MY2000 does the same thing occasionally. It doesn't seem to matter whether it's warmed up or not -- occasionally at very low revs and little to no throttle it starts hacking. Sometimes in 1st, sometimes just as you shift to 2nd. Quickly depressing the clutch and revving a little solves the problem.

And I thought it was just the nature of having FA worth of torque down low. My LT4 Corvette never did this. Didn't rev to 9000 rpm either.