Here we are again. After having the transmission fixed (by Honda) at just 55,000 miles, paying $2,800.00 to replace it at 120,000 miles 2 years ago it has broke down again.

Reverse is out and the local shop says NOW there are stronger parts that are available to rebuild it this time. Except I can't afford another $3,500.00. I have never heard of a vehicle needing its FOURTH TRANSMISSION. I know the vehicle is now 12 years old but this really sucks. I feel like Honda should do something. Who can afford this???

By the way everything else on the car is in great shape as I have taken good care of it over the years especially keeping it running with bad transmissions.

I had a new transmission put in my honda odyssey in 2005 due to the extended warranty that Honda offered. I was under the impression it was covered for 10 years or 100,000 miles. :( Now 7years later, I am told I need a new transmission. I am not sure why a 7 year old transmission would need to be replaced again. I am being told by both Honda and my dealer (whom has done all my repairs) that it is not worth replacing as the car has 196,000 miles on it. I have done GREAT maintenance on this vehicle. I feel that I should not have to replace a 7 year old transmission no matter how many miles are on the car. It is 7 years old. I NEVER have had to replace a transmission in my 11 year old Nissan, 12 year old Pontiac, or 10 year old Plymouth. I am so disappointed in both Honda America and my dealer. How did people get their transmissions replaced multiple times with many miles, etc... I would love to have some assistance in how to approach this. I was planning on replacing my car in the next 1-2 years, but I don't think I will be buying a Honda - the customer service rep. did not care when I told him that. So much for brand loyalty!

We bought a Honda because we thought it was going to be a reliable car....after dealing with these types of issues from an American car we owned before I thought i could buy a reliable van for my wife to drive. Big Mistake! I have heard from other Odyssey owners and most of them are on their third transmission...The cost to fix this problem will cost approximately $2500 that we do NOT have! Is there any type of lawsuit action that can make Honda admit there is a problem and they could go ahead and repair these transmissions...I am sooooo disappointed in Honda! I thought I was investing in a good car...this will be our last Honda! Don't even fee good selling it to someone else!

This was the 2nd time the transmission was replaced, but not the last. It failed again at 160,000 we had it replaced for $2,500 and then we sold it. Honda has a great reputation and I'd just like to add a little reality to this image. Honda made a defective transmission for 2000 and never solved the problem just kept rebuilding the same defective design. Not very proactive. I thought I had a new transmission at 80k miles only to find out that this transmission is unreliable and expensive. I remember a time when the British had trouble holding onto their automotive technical edge and it seems another island nation is going the same route.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

Transmission failed at 111,000 miles in 2007. Honda replaced with rebuilt transmission; the repair expense was covered by warranty. This is the "good news."

Bad news. Failure occurred one week after car was at Honda dealership because we asked them to investigate Check Engine/TCS warning lights. Dealer cleared codes and could not replicate problem; sent us on our way. Transmission failed 1 week later on family trip 300 miles from home. We returned home by train, and of course, I returned a week later to fetch the repaired car. No compensation for first trip to dealer, and subsequent transportation expenses.

Ugly news. This rebuilt transmission failed 40,000 miles later in 2011.

I have a 2000 Honda Odyssey and I have had nothing but problems with the transmission since 2003. Honda was already informed of the potential problem in their company newsletter dated 7/02 and it stated that they were going to inform their customers. I was never notified and if they did they need to produce the letter that was sent out. They had to recall the transmission in 2004 but they conveniently did not include the 2000 models. In 2006 there was a class action lawsuit that included the 2000 Odyssey. I have had to replace the transmission twice and now I am on number three. I do not think that this is fair. I purchased Honda because I expect the quality of the product to last and give me good service and that Honda would stand behind their name. I am out of DOLLARS and I am STILL HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM!! Financially I am not in a position to purchase a new car and when I purchased Honda I expect it to last especially when I have EXCELLENT SERVICE RECORD!!!

My transmission seemed to have lasted far longer than many who have complained here. I had a transmission flush/exchange every 30,000 miles and perhaps that kept it alive- but in the end it completely failed. We noticed a hard shift months before the failure that progressively got worse. When I took it to my friends automotive shop (Aamco) he told me he sees Honda Odyssey's and Accords every week with the same problem and keeps rebuild kits on hand for them. He did the full repair and I bought a four year warranty for his work at a cost of 2850.00. The Van is paid for and has useful features for me so I'm choosing to keep it. Honda historically has extremely dependable cars and I wonder if they're not prepared for this type of result - hence the old Big 3 tactics of blaming the consumer, government regulation, and the like.

At around 75,000 miles, the engine light came on. I asked the Honda service dept about this, and was asked if I had recently filled up the gas tank. Because I did, I was told to wait and see if the light went off. It did, but of course came on before my next service. At this time I had the codes checked, and was told that nothing needed to be done at this time. Of course I trusted them. At 82,000 miles, now the engine light is on as well as the TCS light. Short trips around town were never a problem, until a 7-hr road trip in the summer. When I accelerated, there would be a slight delay as the gear "slipped" and then a slow acceleration, more noticeable on hills. I was afraid to stop not knowing if I would be stranded somewhere.

Took the vehicle straight to my Honda dealer(Fladeboe Honda in Irvine). Now P0740 indicated I needed a new transmission. I am over the warranty extension. Told tranny would be $4500. I then called Honda USA. Honda Rep says it is over the extended warranty time, so there is no way they will give a discount on transmission or labor. I called and talked to Honda service manager at my local Honda dealership in Irvine(Fladeboe Honda). they can't do anything for me and mentioned it is in Honda's hands.He could offer only 10% discount on the labor charge.

Bottom line, Honda should have paid for the whole thing. I started having problems well before the warranty expired, but they knowingly dragged this problem on.

The second transmission in my 2000 Honda Odyssey failed with 58k miles on it (119k total vehicle miles). The dealer wanted to charge me $4,000 for another transmission because I was past the 109k class action extended warranty, but I wasn't going to just open up my wallet and pay for their mistakes without putting up a fight. I spent hours on the phone with the dealer and American Honda, and eventually convinced American Honda to give me a good will replacement where they paid 90%. The dealer ended up charging me $1,100 for 3 broken motor mounts (one of which had already been replaced before when the first transmission failed), plus the 10% for the transmission, so they ended up getting their money anyway. I suspect that the whole motor mount thing was just a scam so that they could charge me for something, but I didn't see them or ask for the parts to be returned to me, so I can't prove it.

Since I had already experienced two transmission failures, and was now starting to shell out my own money, I questioned the dealer over and over again about the quality of this next transmission they were about to install. He acknowledged that some of the earlier replacements did still have problems, but assured me that Honda had reworked the design again and that this time they really did fix it right. Wrong! This one failed twice as fast as the first two.

The original transmission in my 2000 Honda Odyssey failed after 4 years and 62k miles. Honda covered this replacement under the class action warranty extension, and all I had to pay was $133 for a broken motor mount. I thought that should have been covered too, but hey, Honda owned up to a design flaw in their transmissions, corrected the problem, and was now replacing their faulty transmission with a new one for free. I thought I was getting a sweet deal. The clock had just been rolled back on my van to "like new" conditions and it was as if the first 62k miles had just been erased. I now had a 4 year old van with 62k miles on the odometer, but the transmission had 0 miles on it. My expectation of driving this van to 200,000+ miles had just been raised to 250,000+ for free.

Thanks Honda! I thought I was actually going to benefit from their mistake. Little did I know that this was just the beginning of the transmission problems I was about to have. Going on transmission #4 now, and I don't have even the slightest confidence that this van will make it anywhere close to 200k miles. Thanks Honda!

The third transmission in my 2000 Honda Odyssey failed with 37,920 miles on it (157,573 total vehicle miles). Since I paid for a portion of this transmission, it came with a 3 yr/36,000 mile warranty. After 28k miles, it was showing signs of failure, so I brought it back to the Keyes Woodland Hills Honda dealer, the same dealer that had performed the previous two replacements, and asked for them to do another replacement. After performing their diagnostics, they said that the transmission was fine and that the shifting problems I was experiencing were due to a faulty 3rd pressure switch and clogged EGR valve. I was very persistent in insisting that the transmission itself was having problems, but they assured me that there was nothing wrong with the transmission and the shifting problems were definitely a result of the 3rd pressure switch and EGR valve. Since I was unable to convince them that the transmission was failing, I was forced to pay them $1,100 ($344 for the 3rd pressure switch and $743 for the EGR pipe kit) for them to give me the van back with the same shifting problems I brought it in for in the first place.

Four months later, when the transmission had 34k miles on it, I knew I had to get the shifting problems addressed before the warranty ran out or I was going to end up with an expensive repair bill on my hands. I had a feeling that the dealer was just going to give me the runaround if I brought it back to them, and would probably find $1,000-2,000 worth of other problems like they usually do, so I decided to take it to an Independent Honda/Accura repair shop. Much to my surprise, though, they too could not find anything wrong with the transmission. I was speechless. Really? My wife and I are not car experts, but we have experienced the symptoms of two Odyssey transmission failures and were sure that we were feeling them again. Now we've got two separate mechanics, who ARE experts, and who deal with transmission problems all the time, telling us that our transmission is fine. Maybe we were being over-paranoid and over-sensitive due to the bad experiences we'd gone through with the previous two transmission failures? Maybe Honda really did fix their design flaw this time? Maybe this transmission really was fine? Well, two months and 3,789 miles later (now 1,920 past the warranty), the transmission suffered a complete failure while my wife was driving 65 mph in the left lane of a busy CA freeway. Smoke started pouring out of the engine and the vehicle lost all power. She was fortunate to been able to coast over to the shoulder without getting into an accident.

So now the van sits at the dealership again in need of another transmission while I go around in circles with Honda. The dealer wants me to pay $5,000 because the transmission is "out of warranty", and says that if I don't like it, I need to take it up with American Honda. American Honda says that they won't do anything for me because the transmission is "out of warranty", and if I don't like it, I need to take it up with the dealer. It doesn't matter that the transmission was failing within the warranty period, and that I reported it twice within the warranty period, and that by completely failing only 1,920 miles later provides proof that it was in fact failing within the warranty period. The only thing that matters to them is that it didn't completely bomb out until after the warranty expired, so it's no longer their problem.

BTW, did I mention that the dealer also found over $2,000 worth of other recommended repairs while they were diagnosing the failed transmission? What a money pit!

So this is going to be the 3rd transmission im going through, the van no doubt is amazing with power and all ... ITS JUST THE BLOOODDY TRANSMISSION!! i was supposed to chill with this chick tonight and guess what>? its not happening... So on my way to work at 645 am august 22nd... i start it.. let it run for a while and btw.. the check engine light came on the day b4 but had no problem with me.. with my mom it shut down as she says once... but then after starting it again .. .didnt reoccur.

anyways. this morning i was driving to work and the thing was sorta slipping through tthe gears... n i thought its gunna go away... on the way back from work... the closer i got to home.. the worse it got.. at one point the car didnt even accelerate at all.. i press the gas while its in D4 and it just revs up! then slowly i can hear and feel it tryna grip the gear and it kinda did giving me sum kinda acceleration temporarily. i got to a 4 way stop sign near home and then when coming to a complete stop didnt move at all and this time.. the (D4) light was flashing and the TCS light came on.!!!!!!! i dont get it.. how is it that 3 transmissions later they didnt fix it.. ? or find some solution>???

im taking it to B&N transmissions tomrow. for them to check it out cuz they replaced it last time after the warrenty was long up and i had to pay for it outta my pocket to get a rebuilt one. n all they did was replace the broken or worn parts. thanks for reading this wack but true story that happend today.! F*** CHEERS PPLE!

I'll keep it short and to the point. I bought a an Odyssey, year 2000 3.5 liter at 114K. From a auto mechanic who got it in an auction. This vehicle doesn't leak transmission fluid while sattionary, but it does leak when it drivien. I came to find out from the Honda Dealer that the differential that they build and sold to us americans has worn out. This ware is causing the axle to wobble a little bit. Which is enough to spill transmission fluid on the street of america daily at the rate of about a pint a day. I can't afford fix the problem with a new tranny from Honda immediately. So for now I'll just have to keep spilling fluid.onto the freeway, sorry, NHTSA, I hope this isn't a safety issue either. By the way I have the know how to bolt another transmission onto the engine. The question is the United States ever force honda to build a transmission that is not F'd up. Can anyone answer this question? Is there a replacement transmission?????