Weird jerky engine feeling? Lol

[Jdubz]

So I’ve noticed lately. That when cruising. Let’s say 35 mph in 3rs gear. When letting off the gas it almost feels as if it’s choppy. As if I were in first gear driving in a parking lot and the rpms are getting up. And you let off the gas and it’s a little rocky. Is that making any sense? Lol. It also feels the same letting back on the gas. I feel like I’ve done a bad job of explaining

 

[jimlloyd40]

You're right you did a bad job of explaining. I guess that's a manual trans you're talking about. Maybe it's too slow of speed for the gear you're in and you let off the throttle abruptly and feel it bucking.

 

[El_bigote_AJ]

Yes, it makes sense. If it’s a front to back Rock feel for a sec It’s Probably the motor rocking from the soft factory mounts.

 

[Mk7tsi3door]

Motor mounts suck. Search the forums for that, might be ur issue

 

[imthanick_a]

Choppy as in how I read your post with all those excessive periods? haha

 

[Jose_Gti]

How many miles in your car? Any mods? It would be great if you could make a video of the issue.

 

[GTIfan99]

What year is the car?

 

[Jdubz]

Manual transmission. About 57 thousand like and only modifications are intake and Borla catback so far. I’m not sure if it’s been doing this for a while and I’m just noticing. Or it’s relatively new. I’ll have to search about motor mounts

 

[eajr]

Sounds like you are trying to tell us your car is bucking.

 

[TimmyTbonez235]

Definitely mounts. I have the same issue. Either upgrade the mounts of deal with the jerking lol

 

[zero10]

35mph in 3rd gear is right about 2000-2200RPM? If so it's the intake runners. This drives me crazy because it bucks moderately hard at somewhere around 10-20% throttle, which seems to be exactly the range required to hold a steady speed on flat ground.

 

[Subliminal]

Are you experiencing this more with the A/C on? Because I've noticed it more lately as well. Although I know usually it's caused by the burbles in my tune, although that'd be either in 1st or higher in the RPMs than 35 in 3rd

 

[jimlloyd40]

Sounds like you are trying to tell us your car is bucking.

That's what I was trying to say but you said it better.

 

[jimlloyd40]

Definitely mounts. I have the same issue. Either upgrade the mounts of deal with the jerking lol

His car is stock. I didn't need to replace mounts until 90,000 miles and that's with FBO and BT.

 

[Jdubz]

Yeah bucking would be the best way to describe I’ve heard people complain about the engine mounts before. Maybe a stupid question but could it be clutch related? I mean it doesn’t slip or anything. It’s more so annoying than anything. Just hoping it won’t turn into something worse