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Old 12-28-2004, 07:30 AM
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I was reading some consumer feedback and was shocked that alot of people were having problems with the automatic. With 55k on the clock my seems to shift okay unless going down a hill when I hit the brake and for some unknown reason it downshifts hard. Occasionally it will also wind into second going up a hill but other than that it seems okay. I figured this late in the game Honda would have all the trans stuff figured out since year to year the trans should have upgrades of any known problem. Was what I reading just a few unfortunate?
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Default Re: Any truth that the 1998 Honda auto is a POS? (Intercooler)

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Intercooler &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">going down a hill when I hit the brake and for some unknown reason it downshifts hard. Occasionally it will also wind into second going up a hill </TD></TR></TABLE>
Just sounds like the Grade Logic Control working to me.
Old 12-28-2004, 07:56 AM
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What is that? I didn't see anything in the spec sheets about that feature. So it is normal?
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Any other thoughts on this?
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Well i can say that I see alot of people drive the auto very hard and its always known that alot of Honda auto trannys are terrible.... hell most autos in particualiar are bad. You get some people who just hold the pedal floored all the time... which kills the trannys life.... think about it, when you hold it floored all the time when the tranny shifts its gonna be hard one.. so i would think that the wear and tear might be harder on it.
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Default Re: Any truth that the 1998 Honda auto is a POS? (Intercooler)

my friend had a 96 and he ran that auto trans the hardest ive ever seen someone between doing that wanna be manual shifting with the 123 and dropping it..he had 120k when he sold it and had no problems with the trans
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Weird Ive seen alot of auto trannys take a turn for the worst.
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I've heard of the CVT's from the HX having their share of problems...
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by CycloneBlue_1.6EL &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I've heard of the CVT's from the HX having their share of problems...</TD></TR></TABLE>

bah SHARE OF PROBLEMS?! lol You mean whole book full of problems... Grr I hate that tranny... I gotta get it swapped out SOON!
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