After driving my first Honda Accord until it had 250,000 miles on it, and then owning a second Honda Accord as well, I always swore by Hondas. After a switch to Toyota, I decided to go back to Honda and purchased my third Accord, the 05 Honda Accord. Now with only half the miles of my first car, it has been recommended by Honda for me to have a transmission replacement done on the car. The car started just making an odd rattle when the car was idling but then it starting struggling with the shift from 2nd to 3rd gear as I was driving. I'm extremely disappointed to now learn that Honda has been having this problem for several years now. A local independent transmission mechanic in my area who previously worked for Honda for years is now applying his own update when rebuilding Honda's transmissions to fix this problem from occurring in the future in his rebuilt transmissions. I was shocked to hear that he can find a fix and Honda hasn't applied this fix to their own cars. It seems to me that Honda is burying their heads in the sand to hope that this problem goes away and is doing nothing more than offering some people extended warranties or discounts on new transmissions that will only fail again within a few years. I cannot believe that I am saying that I will never buy another Honda again. I used to believe that these problems only occurred in American built vehicles but now I see that I need to really do my homework before purchasing my next car and it won't be a Honda or Acura.