I just had the 90K mile service performed on the the Accord (the car had 94800 miles on it at the time). Part of the 90K service is a transmission flush and fill and replace the transmissoin drain plug washer. Now at 98120 miles (less than 4000 miles since the service) the transmission has completely failed. This evening, (Friday 9/29/06) I was driving down to Waco Tx cruising along at about 70 mph on I35. All of a sudden the engine rpm revved to 5000+ and the car started slowing down. I pulled over and it smelled like fluid burning off on the hot exhaust system. I looked under the car and transmission fluid was leaking onto the road. I had to have the car towed into the nearest Honda dealership. More to follow once I find out what failed, what caused the failure, etc.

I purchased my 2003 Accord with 27,000 Miles on it. The transmission started slipping but only every now and then. I took it to the Dealer, they said they couldn't find anything wrong. About a month later I was pulling into a parking spot and I shifted into Reverse and heard gears grinding. After work I headed to the dealership. On the way whenever I applied the brake approaching a stop light the Transmission was down shifting all the way into first gear. Sending my head slamming forward. I didn't think I would make it to the dealership. When I got there, they had a Technician come out to my car. He had me shift back and forth from Reverse to Drive (Automatic Trans.) Several times it made a really bad grinding noise. The Techinician said the Transmission was shot. It's been about 5,000 miles since it'd been fixed, and again I'm starting to hear noise.

With the car being LESS than 2 years old and with only 55,000, I can't believe the transmission went. My husband does a lot of traveling on business so it was mostly highway miles and we had no choice to get the car fixed. The dealer seems to think he did us a HUGE favor by putting in a refinished transmission at a cost of $1,600, but to me this car should not have had to have a transmission replaced in the first place with it being less than two years old. What a piece of junk Honda makes and I urge everyone who reads this not to buy any type of Honda vehicle.