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wondering if others have had the same proble as me. lastsummer I lost my 5th gear. 2003 vibe, base, manual, 135,000kms.Driving at 100kms/hr on straight, flat highway, 1hr into trip ans started getting loud rubbing sound, gradually louder and louder to point of super-loud screatching so pull on side of road and stopped. As soon as I stopped, loud crind and clunk - car moved 3-4m, then would not go any further.Got it back to trusted transmission shop (but hoping it was my cv joints gone) and bearing in transmission went, then I lost 5th gear. I was lucky that I stopped when I did because I could have lost all gears if the 5th gear was to bounce around inside the tranny at speeds.I was told that I should have changed my tranny fluid every 50,000km and would have prevented this. Mech says it is a problem with vibe/matrix.. but not a problem with all the vehicles he services, but he has seen same problem with 'more than a normal amount' of vibes/matrix that he does not service (like mine).Any other experience this problem? If anything I hope others can avoid this expensive issue by changing their tranny fluid every 50,000k!

My 5-speed went out also, a number of us had the bearings go out. It does seem to be something that happens more than it should with these cars. My first tranny lasted about 75K miles. This one has about 85K on it.Thanks for tip. The service schedule never mentions routine changing of tranny oil. I did change mine a bout 10K miles agoWelcome to genvibe.

even though mine is not a man. I change mine every other year... which in my case is about 24,000miles.. I know it's half what the owners manual states but for the 30mins that it takes me to do this it's worth it.But yes it seems to be a common problem

wow, that must be one crappy design. I had 100k miles on my Elantra 5 speed when I finally checked the fluid. It was clean as new. They didn't even recommend changing it.