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If you change your own ATF-drive the vehicle for at least 50 miles before changing the ATF and don't let it sit long before draining the old out. Keeps the crap in suspension. Watch out when removing the plug as the ATF will be hot enough to badly burn you if it touches you skin. It really squirts out so I wear a heavy glove and heavy old parka to protect my arm and hand.
Really easier to change ATF than oil so there is no reason to go to dealer for this service. Can do mine in less than 5 minutes.
I had one dealer tell me my car needed $1000. in brake work. I didn't have it done since the brakes seemed fine, had taken it in for something else. The car needed front brake pads a year later, so I took it to a shop I had recently found and trusted. They replaced the front pads, turned the rotors, repacked the front wheel bearings, checked and adjusted the rear drums, all for $175.
I don't think you'll have much luck getting Honda to replace your tranny, but give it a try anyway and let us know how you make out.
I bought my CRV shop manual at helminc.com for less than $70., pretty cheap considering what I've saved doing my maint. myself.
I dunno, maybe I am just too hard to convince. It's not that I think Honda's are such super automobiles. They're good, but not perfect. I don't go around telling everyone I know how wonderful my Ody is. It's just that it seems to me that a few bits of info here are extrapolated into a "fact" that there is a current and ongoing issue with these transmissions. The TSBs on NHTSA website don't spell it out. It's just one TSB, with the same TSB number and issue date, placed on all model years. That would seem to indicate a fairly recently discovered problem that they decided applies to all back to 98. But what is the problem, some sort of missing plug? Doesn't sound so major. If it is major, where's the proof?
dkrab:Good post. I do wonder myself especially when most of the cars should still be under warranty. But you have to give people the benefit of doubt.
I've become weary of jumping in these forums everytime someone says Hondas have bad transmissions.
They don't, pure and simple. They have excellent transmissions that rarely fail.
Of course, they are a complex, complicated piece of machinery like any transmission.
They can and will have an ocassional glitch like anything else.
The vast majority will never cause a problem.
As for your comment about what you were told at two different Honda dealerships...I simply don't believe your story, sorry.
Go to this website, click on "Auto Defects", then click on any particular make and model, then form an opinion about who makes better cars. Honda has had some problems, that are all listed. But Hondas are in a class way above "American" cards.
Honda does have excellent engines but their transmissions in the V-6's are troublesome. You pay good money for a car and you don't want trouble TWICE!
Just thought I would add to the conversation and hope you heed my personal warning!
Bwhaaaaa!
The reason being, most of the parts in a transmission aren't subject to wear. The parts that do wear are replaced and often updated with upgraded materials.
The local transmission shops do the same thing but often cut corners. The quality can vary by quite a bit.
To all those guys knocking honda's - keep it up any thing that will help me get better deals when I buy my next one is appreciated.
I drive lots of different rental cars when I travel-some of them nearly new-mostly domestic-they are better than they were 20 years ago but they are chasing a moving target.
I've had my EX V6 for almost a year now and have 16k miles on it. Though I haven't had any transmission problems as of yet, and it shifts smoothly most of the time under normal operation, I do find it at times a bit quirky.
My biggest beef is when I approach a stop or yield sign, If I do a "rolling" stop, instead of a complete stop, when I press the accelerator, the transmission seems to "studder", "skip" or shift hard.
Actually I'm not sure what it is doing. One theory I have is that maybe the grade-logic is holding second gear and then quickly slams to first when I start to accelerate? The only way I can avoid this is if I come to a complete stop, then accelerate; or initially gently accelerate after coming to a rolling stop.
This is very annoying and I find myself changing my driving habits to avoid it from happening. Is this normal? Does anyone else experiance this problem?
Thanks for the help
They call it "one time customer" free fix.
I know a guy that when he buys a car always opts for the best extended warranty available. He did this on his last 5 cars he purchased. The one thing he fails to realize is that he trades his car in every 3 years. I asked him why he does this and he replied, "I don't want any problems". The guy is 72 years old so you can't change him since he is from "the Old School". Ironically, he always buys some of the most dependable cars on the market in Honda, Toyota and Nissan.
thanks,
xingangz
I will try!
xingangz