Accord Transmission Question
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Accord Transmission Question
I have an 00 Accord, US made, but I live in Canada. It had its transmission replaced 1.5 yrs ago, and has failed again. It will be replaced a 2nd time under warranty, since Honda provided a 7 yr extension. This blows me away, this is my 4th! Accord, the last 3 were awesome. My warranty on the tranmission will end in December, the new one will be installed next week. Couple of Q's...
One of the dealer reps mentioned that the warranty replacement transmissions aren't actually made by Honda, just built inside Honda cases. Maybe this is why they are failing so much, but is this the case in the US as well?
How would an Accord go through 3 transmissions? Would you expect to get a warranty on a replacement tranny that was installed a month before your car's extended warranty expired?
Trying to decide if I should just ditch this car after the new tranny is installed, the engine runs great, its in great shape, but I've got this bad feeling about what's going on with the transmissions....
One of the dealer reps mentioned that the warranty replacement transmissions aren't actually made by Honda, just built inside Honda cases. Maybe this is why they are failing so much, but is this the case in the US as well?
How would an Accord go through 3 transmissions? Would you expect to get a warranty on a replacement tranny that was installed a month before your car's extended warranty expired?
Trying to decide if I should just ditch this car after the new tranny is installed, the engine runs great, its in great shape, but I've got this bad feeling about what's going on with the transmissions....
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Re: Accord Transmission Question (Stealthman80)
the dealer is full of it.
the tranny is honda design, honda made. they don't want you to think they put out a premature failure prone tranny design but that's exactly what they did.
sell the car before it takes a dump on you again, the 7 th gen accord seems to be in good design, durablity wise
the tranny is honda design, honda made. they don't want you to think they put out a premature failure prone tranny design but that's exactly what they did.
sell the car before it takes a dump on you again, the 7 th gen accord seems to be in good design, durablity wise
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Re: Accord Transmission Question (iam7head)
OK, I can't figure this out. Makes sense to me that its a honda tranny. When I called to tell them I had a problem this time (with the replacement) the servive mgr told me he'd never seen a problem with any of the replacement trans. Now that its failed one of the service guys tells me the replacement ones are Honda. So the 1st one went 5.5 yrs, the second went 1.25, I just can't believe Honda could make a tranny bad enough to fail that fast.
Guess I need to find out how long I really have under warranty on tranny #3. I might go for a TSX this time, and I'm sticking with a manual whatever I get. My last Accord had a stick, was running great when I traded it, and it had 150K miles.
Guess I need to find out how long I really have under warranty on tranny #3. I might go for a TSX this time, and I'm sticking with a manual whatever I get. My last Accord had a stick, was running great when I traded it, and it had 150K miles.
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Honda does build transmissions, they are provided to them by a plant located in Russels Point OH.
Honda Transmission Mfg. of America, Inc.
Locaiton: Russells Point, Ohio
Product Produced: Automatic Transmissions
Date opened: July 1996 <-this is when they started having problems with their automatics as these transmissions first started appearing in the 1997 Acura CL 3.0s and other Acura cars. The Accord would get this pos in 1998
Size: 600,000 sq. ft.
Annual Production 1,000,000+ units
Employees: 900
Amt invested: $300 million <- Obviously wasn't enough money or it was spent poorly IMHO
The plant opened in 1996 solely focused on the production of automatic transmissions, which requires high level of precision manufacturing technologies, for North American-built models. Previously, the Anna Engine Plant had produced automatic transmissions since 1989. Expanding to produce high precision gears, starting in 2006.
source
http://www.hondanews.com/CatID...e=asc
Honda Transmission Mfg. of America, Inc.
Locaiton: Russells Point, Ohio
Product Produced: Automatic Transmissions
Date opened: July 1996 <-this is when they started having problems with their automatics as these transmissions first started appearing in the 1997 Acura CL 3.0s and other Acura cars. The Accord would get this pos in 1998
Size: 600,000 sq. ft.
Annual Production 1,000,000+ units
Employees: 900
Amt invested: $300 million <- Obviously wasn't enough money or it was spent poorly IMHO
The plant opened in 1996 solely focused on the production of automatic transmissions, which requires high level of precision manufacturing technologies, for North American-built models. Previously, the Anna Engine Plant had produced automatic transmissions since 1989. Expanding to produce high precision gears, starting in 2006.
source
http://www.hondanews.com/CatID...e=asc
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Re: (YeuEmMaiMai)
Interesting stuff. So where does Honda currently make the manual trans for the Accord? I guess this is likely where I'm going next....
Anyone know if there's any kind of lemon law, ext warranty, or anything if a car's tranny fails 3 times, or since it'll be 7 years old soon would I just be SOL next time?
Anyone know if there's any kind of lemon law, ext warranty, or anything if a car's tranny fails 3 times, or since it'll be 7 years old soon would I just be SOL next time?
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