I bought a 2000 Civic DX a couple weeks ago, with about 80k miles, and the car seemed fine then. The car is absolutely basic, with no options whatsoever besides the auto transmission. More recently it has been feeling a little stranger while shifting and coasting. Accelerating from a dead stop the car will sometimes take off very slowly, and then it feels like it launches a little harder after a second or two. I can't tell for sure, but it might be when it shifts into 2nd that it launches harder. The car also feels like it takes a little longer than it should to shift while I'm accelerating slowly, and sometimes when I accelerate slowly to ~25-30 mph, the rpm's seem to stay a little higher than they should. It reminds me a lot of my Camaro with a high stall torque converter. Also at this point, the car feels like I have it in low gear when I press or release the pedal. Along the same lines, often when I'm driving and release the gas pedal to coast the car feels like it's in a low gear, and will decerlerate very quickly. I've tried to determine at what speeds or gears the car does this, but it seems to be pretty random about it. It cuts down my coast time and distance dramatically, and you can feel a noticeable difference when shifting into neutral at this point. Other times the car will coast normally, and you can barely notice (if at all) any difference when shifting between N and Drive. I always double-check, and I have always had the car in D4, not D3 while driving.
I hope somebody can help me out with this, if you have any other questions, or need more details, please feel free to ask. ANY tips or advise will be greatly appreciated. Thank you all very much, for your time and effort.
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