I just contacted Honda about my automatic transmission failure and asked if they could extend the warranty (good will extension). The lady I spoke to told me that since my car is a 2000 model, it is two years beyond the extension.

Has anyone here seen or heard of a good will transmission warranty that was done on an 8 or 9 year old vehicle?

My car is at 113,000 miles, but she said it was the age of the car that counts.

Thank you for any information!

 

I feel bad for you. Mine had to be replaced at 7 years for shifting problems and Honda covered it. But at 10 years now I doubt it.

 

They do a standard 5 year warranty; they got sued through the floor and extended the trans warranty on 99-02 Accord V6 and Odyssey's to 7 years 9 months or 109k miles, whichever comes first. The trans is under built in the EXV6 models, and the vans weight plus V6 means the thing likes to blow out.

Honda isn't going to hand you 2 grand worth of parts and labor.

Good news is a remanufactured trans from honda runs $1300 and the install is something like another $600; it'll last another 100k+ miles. If you haven't done a timing belt/water pump job, now's the time. The only thing honda re-uses in the tranny on these is the case, everything else is new. There's also a place in Rockford IL that'll build you a stage 3 trans for $3,000.

A decade without a major component failure in an automobile is a pretty good run. I've worked on 20 and 30 year old cars, everyone has its problem. Honda's tend to rot out from under you around the 15 year mark which is why you don't see many 70's honda's on the road but you always see american cars like broughams, nova's, grand nationals, lincolns, etc.

 

Thank you for your responses. I had seen good will warranties go well past 7 years, but I guess they draw the line at 9.

 

I'm going through the same thing. I've got 140k on the tranny and brought it in initially with tranny problems while it was under the 100k honda extended warranty. The dealer didn't document it, so I'm out. It really sucks.

 

I had my car slip once during the test drive and the shift from park to drive was a little clunky. Buddy who was with me said "it's just the water ont he road, the car's slipping". Trans fluid was a little old so I told the salesmen "as a condition of buying this car I want the trans fluid changed".

26 days later it was tarnished and burnt. That, and the shifting problems, got it replaced.

Keep that in mind. If they're selling a car and the fluid is not BRAND NEW you get it changed when you take it off the lot. It'll go in the first few hundred miles if its bad. If it isn't, changing the fluid isn't going to make it go bad.