I'm a newbie to Honda and their cars. Meaning I've
never owned one before, so I'm not sure if the issue
I'm having is something normal or not. The problem
is that from a cold start I feel a rub sensation/noise
in the gas pedal once I hit 10mph. The strange part about
it is that I only feel this rub sensation when the
wheel is turned to the right. I use to and sometimes
still do feel it when I turn the wheel to the left.
However, I never feel it when I go straight. For the most
part, everytime I turn to the right I feel it. If I
immediately stop and try to make it happen again,
it won't. That's why I say only form a cold start
I feel this happen.

Let me give you an example of what I mean. From a cold
start, lets say I'm pulling out of a parking space and
cut the wheel to the right to exit. Now the wheel does
not have to be turned all the way to feel it. It happens
at any degree when the wheel is turned to the right.
Once I hit the 10mph marker on the odometer, well more
like 9mph going into 10mph, I feel this rub sensation/noise
in the gas pedal.

I don't know what this is and it driving me nuts. So much so
that my fiance is telling me to shut up and do somethinig
about it. She doesn't want to hear it anymore. She thought
that I was going crazy. I wish you could ahev seen the look
on her face the first few times I talked about it.
Now she never drives the car because she works in the city
and takes the train. But, one weekend she needed to take the
car for the day. Later on that night she tells me that she
felt the rub sensation/nosie. So she says to me that I gotta
get this to the dealer. There's something definitely wrong
with it.

Now in the first two weeks of owning the car, I
called the dealer and complained about the noise. They tell
me to bring it in and have the service department look at it.
So I make an appointment, at this point the car only had 2700
miles on it. It currently has 4150 on it. Anyway, I tell
the dealer exactly what they needed to do to reproduce the
problem. Now the tech that sat it my car and listened to me
rant about this problem seemed like he understood what I
was talking about. Well I get the car the next day and they
tell me they couldn't fix the problem. It was not reproducable
they said. After being bent out of shape for a little bit, I
spoke to the manager of the service department. He gave me the
same looks that my fiance use to give me as I was explaining the
problem. We then get in my car to try and reproduce the noise.
He gets in and start zipping all around the side roads around the
dealership. He never listened to me that, it only happens from a
cold start. So basically if you don't feel it you need to stop
and try again. Well he does starts to do this in the parking lot
of the dealership. Not once did he shut off the car and wait for
it to cool down. So that he could be doing it from a cold start.
We then park the car and go back inside. He basically told me
that if they reproduce the noise, they can't fix it. That kind
of pissed me off, but I guess he's right. But here's the funny
part about this. I get back in the car to leave and go back home,
anger and frustrated. I pulled out of the space and the car made
made that friggin noise again. well that just pissed me off, again.
So I go back inside to tell the manager. I tell him that it just
made the noise. I tell him look listen, everyday I leave my parking
space at work I can make this rub sensation/noise happen. He goes
and tells me that if they have to come to my job to see it happen,
they will. Well that never happened because the timing wasn't right.
Setting something like this up during the work week is just too
crazy for me. I have to much happening after work between going to
night school and other things. So I never set that up, which is
my own fault I guess.

(Am I boring you yet?)

So the car final came up for it 3750 miles oil change. I called to
set this up. They were so booked that I could not get my car to
them until tonight. This is why the odometer is at 4150, as I
stated earlier and not 3750. Anyway I spoke to the manager of the
service department once again tonight about this problem. I told
him that this thing is still a problem and it needs to be addressed.
He then started pulling out diagrams of the ABS system. Telling me
that he thinks it may be the ABS engaging that I feel. He says that
the old Preludes use to do something similar. Now I don't know if this
is true because I've never owned one before. Let alone
even a Honda in general. He says this because I only seem to
feel this from a cold start. So my question to the group is, is there
anyone out there that's having or has had this problem? I need to go
to them with something strong and hard. I checked Honda's site for
any such issues and have found none. I also searched on Google, that's
how I found this newsgroup. If anyone out there can help, I'd
appreciate it. Thanks so much for listen to my super long story.

-peteluv13