First and foremost, I am meticulous about maintaining my car and I do all oil/brakes on my own...... Out of nowhere, driving home from work, transmission slips out of gear, engine races, slips back into gear again, slips back out, in, out, in, out...... Stayed in high gear on highway thankfully, made it home, had tranny company tow it the next day. Contacted Corporate Honda, told to bring car to Authorized Honda Service Dept. Had tranny company tow car to Honda ($150 out of pocket so far). Spoke to service dept., tranny is shot, need new one. I stated that my tranny was recalled two years ago (at 51,000 miles, recall NHTSA # 04V176000) and that the fact that I drove this car for 51,000 miles BEFORE the recall work was done, with a perceived significant problem, could have contributed to my tranny failure. Service manager said that the tranny failure had nothing to do with the recall issue. I said OK, "what caused my tranny to fail?". Service manager said "I don't know, we didn't open the tranny up". So, obviously, my next question to him was "If you don't know what caused my tranny to fail, how do you KNOW that it wasn't due to the recall issue?" He stated that if it was the recall issue, my tranny would have "locked up". OK, so I go to the NHTSA website which lists the recall problem and it states that "failure COULD result in tranny lock-up"...... Key word:COULD. Since my tranny didn't lock up, apparently it's my problem. I guess I'm a crappy driver eh? Service guy stated that they "have heard" that Honda has, in the past (hush hush, no one knows this), contributed in the cost of repair up to 50%. I stated that I felt that Honda should pay 100% of cost, a tranny should NOT fail at 83,000 ESPECIALLY if it was a quality vehicle like I believed Honda WAS. Service manager said to talk to corporate Honda 1-800-999-1009. Spoke to Corporate Honda Claim rep..... long story short.... since I was not willing to contribute to the cost of repair, Honda would not either... I am over my warranty "sorry we couldn't help you". I was being nice the whole time..... no ranting or yelling. I spent over $50,000 on Honda cars within two years (Accord+Odyssey), and this is how they treat a loyal and recent customer? I was very disappointed to say the least. My last ditch effort, which I did yesterday (10/2/06), was to call Corporate Honda claim rep one last time and offer to pay 50% of the cost, "would Honda be willing to do the same?"... Left message on her machine... I am currently waiting for a response..... let's see if they reconsider and be the quality Auto giant that they are. If not, then they have awoken a sleeping lion....... I will have an independent tranny shop replace my tranny with a new one..... AND THEN I will have them open up the defective tranny and diagnose the problem, I WILL take pictures, and I may or may not (i. e. disclaimer) post pictures on the Web of what other Honda owners can expect from a Honda transmission. I will let you all know what happens in the next few days. We'll see if Honda does the right thing...... until then, have a nice day people. Oh, if anyone else has experienced anything like this, please let me know....... I set up a yahoo E-mail account specifically for this........ galo2222@yahoo.com Thank you !!!!

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.