Good morning!
I need help and advice.
I have a 1998 Automatic Honda Accord
I recently hit a large hole in the road, damaging my driver side brakes and CV shaft. I went to a local auto mechanic shop and had these two things repaired, along with a routine oil change. $400 in repairs. The day after I picked up my car, I noticed my transmission didn't want to shift from stopped to ideal nor from ideal to first gear. When I am at a stop light, I let my foot off the brake and the car will sit still, not move forward. I would then give it gas, which would move it forward, but it would go into first gear. After a second or two it will catch itself and go. It has no trouble getting into second, third, or forth. In fact, these gears are all nice and smooth. For the age of my car, it has pretty good miles, 140,000. Before having the work done, I had no problems with the transmission. Even the few days I drove it with the broken CV shaft and damaged brakes, outside of the noise and soft brakes, it drove perfect. I feel there has to be a relation between getting the car fixed and my current problem.
Any suggestions, advice, help, or such?
Thanks so much!

 

1) check the transmission fluid level

if that's OK,

2) take it back to the shop

The shop would have needed to drain the fluid to replace the axle (CV shaft), and they may have not filled it correctly, filled it with the wrong fluid, or damaged the axle seal, letting the fluid leak out.

 

assuming its auto by the description, how many miles does it have?

 

140,000 miles.

 

let me tell you something. they probably put fresh fluid in there. first mistake, use the old fluid, these transmissions are prone to slippage after fluid change specially if the transmission fluid was never changed at recommended miles before you bought it. this happened to my dads transmission and it started slipping hard core after a few miles on fresh autozone fluid, this also could be a cause of cheap non atf honda fluid, not saying your transmission is toast or is going, just putting out there what happened, i would of used the same fluid as it still had the friction clutch material from the clutch packs still in it. MY transmission currently has this problem where i put it on drive and the gear goes in and car moves VERY slowly if i give it gas i can feel the gear engage all the way then it moves better and slips if i have my foot down in 2nd gear

 

Really? I'm wondering how much experience you really have on Honda's out side if what you have done on your 4th gen....and some of that is in question as well.

OP- The only thing I can agree with is, check the fluid level - with the work done some fluid loss might have happened. If low - decision point. If you are not sure of the last change, get ~ 3 qts of Honda Trans fluid (at most 7.99 a qt). Do a dain and re-fill with the Honda fluid and see what you have from there.

 

Yup get that generic atf outta there and replace with honda atf. Pray it goes back to normal!