Just bought a 2000 Accord Coupe V6. Car runs great except for shift from 1st to 2nd gear. It will downshift fine. Took to transmission shop and he replace fluid with honda trans fluid and said to drive for about 500 miles to see if this will correct itself. Said sometimes if a honda has wrong trans fluid it will not shift right. It is showing a CE light that reads "shift malfunction". I have drove car 2 days since fluid change and it seems a little better. It is not jerking the car that hard now when it shifts but it is still not right. Do you think the Lucas Oil additive will help fix this? If not is it ok to drive the car until the trans just fails? I don't want to replace the trans now.

 

Search around but sounds like tranny failure, Their is a recall on some of those accords your transmission is most likely gone bad.
Good luck
5 speed swap is the only definite solution.

 

your trans is toast because the internal filter( an internal screen that cannot be replaced by the user) got clogged and toasted the clutch packs.


do not even scew around with a rebuild shop, go straight to honda and have them put a new one in some where around $4-5K a rebuild will typicaly cost $3600

see about good will assistance as car is most likely past the 7 year 9 month or 109K mile warranty due to it's in service date

 

How long with car last if I just drive it as is without touching the transmission? It is still driveable.

 

Did the tranny place do the drain and re fill 3 times? i would try that before doing anything else

as far as driving with a hard shift its a coin flip....can you tell if the tranny is slipping right before the gears change. if that happens then you need a new tranny soon.

 

Tranny does not act like it slipping. Just hard shift between 1st and 2nd. If you let off the gas a little right before it shifts the shift is smooth. I think they are drain and refill 1 time.

 

Mine is the same way Its been driving fine for almost 1k now, Of course Shifting into 1st gear is sluggish and like you said you have to let off on the gas before second or it will be rough

Im starting to collect parts for the manual conversion,
Dont waste money drain and refill more than 1 time it didnt help mine and its the exact same problem your having.

There are some places I saw that will do a complete 5speed swap all parts and labor included for 2500 which is cheaper than getting another auto tranny that could just fail again.
Let me know if you want more info, the place Im talking about is in california and its a reputable shop.

As for me I live in oregon and Im going to do mine myself so I need to start collecting the parts.

If your not good at working on cars pretty proficiently Id just take it to a shop with experience on 5 speed swaps and have them do it for you
2500 bucks is a good deal