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The "burnishing" did not help.
Sacucci Honda of Rhode Island came through for her.
But thanks to reading about your experiences, I won't be fooled if they try the burnish and get me to go away trick. The car is at 95000 miles, so I can see them burnishing it 3 times and hoping I go over 105k miles before they have to replace the transmission. I will be much better informed when I have to deal with them in 2 weeks.
I had hoped to keep the car until I was able to buy a Toyota plug-in hybrid (not yet available but supposedly being worked on), but I have to wonder about that plan.
I have a 2003 Civic Hybrid whose transmission has failed. We have brought this car into Honda service at least 3 times with the same problem with assurances each time that there was no problem. Now that the warranty has expired we're told that the transmission has failed and we're responsible for the repairs. They further tell me that this was the decision of the DPSM but refuse to give me any contact information.
Honda America also refuses me DPSM contact info but assures me that the dealer is to contact him and have him contact me. The dealer is amused by this suggestion.
Does anyone have any idea how to contact the DPSM or to whom I might appeal?
http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/car/06q1/honda_civic
1) Buy enough Transmission Fluid for 2 Changes, (it's high $)
2) Change Fluid
3) Start Car & Let it warm up
4) Put car in drive and apply Gas & Brake, like brake torquing
5) Put car in reverse and apply Gas & Brake (holding Gas to the floor and Brake)
6) I did this like 5 times in each Drive & Reverse Holding for about 5 seconds a time
7) Change Fluid again
8) All the shimmying and Jerking stopped for me, time to trade it in!
My sister has an '07 Civic Hybrid, about 60k miles, and is having the juddering problem. I sent her the service bulletins, and told her to get on it asap.
I just got the transmission on my '03 Civic Hybrid replaced under warranty; hopefully this will be the last time. We may not keep the car as long as we had planned...
My story: In the past I have owned to fantastic Honda CRXs. From that experience I thought Hondas were great so I purchased a 2005 Honda Civic hybrid new and I have had nothing but problems. With the recall and JUDDER issue my car has been in four times. They have burnished and put in start clutches, etc. Although they have covered it so far, my patience is gone now when they are saying I need a new transmission which they WILL NOT fully cover. I would end up paying 1700 to fix something that is related to the judder issue.
They have offered me a mere 4800 trade in value for the vehicle if I want to get out. It is a ridiculously low amount of money.
Please let me know if there has been interest in a class action.
After putting in a new transmission on my 2005 Civic Hybrid, which I had to pay almost 400 dollars for, the new transmission was juddering within the week they put it in.
Why are other cars with CVTs not doing this? It leads me to believe that this is an issue with just Honda CVTs. Has anyone who has had their transmission replaced asked specifically what was wrong with the first one? I am working on finding out what was wrong with mine. I will post again soon.
Now, my HCH sounded as if there's a helicopter prop under the hood. Brought it in to the dealership. "Internal Transmission Failure" is what I'm told with a price tag of $3632 and some change. AND I was told that it was "in no way connected to the other transmission issues that [my] car has suffered before."
Lovely isn't it.
I'm 21 years old and spent basically my entire bank account on the car and had it for about 9 months
PLEASE HELP!
Any help would be great!
knowing the dealerships, you probably have your original trannyt they changed the fluid...and replaced the clutch..and charged you for a "new" tranny....!!
Yet, even though I have realized we are not supposed to post about class action suits on this site, I don't see any other way to gather enough information to give to a lawyer so that he/she will be able to proceed or not.
What I have been told by one attorney is that there has to be a certain defect in all the transmissions of a certain year or "batch". I will continue checking but I think that it is worth it for others to be doing some calling to. Also finding out what is specifically the problem will help tremendously.
This is ridiculous and Honda needs to step up to the plate.
I will never buy another Honda.
We bought our '03 Civic Hybird with 5 speed manuel trannsmission from our local honda dealership (pacific honda here in San Diego, CA), it was used (1 owner) and had 67k miles on it. Luckly we purchased honda care and an extended warranty which covered the following items.
-Replace clutch Master Cylinder & bleed system @ 68,893 miles
-IMA software update
-Replace IMA Battery @82,556 miles
-Replace Catylic Converter
-Replace internal fan @ 92,626 miles
The car has always been real "jerky" to drive, especially in 1st and 2nd gear at lower speeds. I always figured it was from the electric torque of the hybird engine.
We have had numerious people comment on how rough it drives, mainly in stop in go. So my question is this: Is the hybird manuel transmission a CVT transmission as well? Is it plagued with the same problems as the auto version? Are both the automatics & manuels covered in this recall? We have not experienced anything as severe as some of the others that have posted, and have never had the tranny replaced or rebuilt, just a rough ride thru the gears.
We now have 109,xxx miles on it and the "maintence light" came on a few weeks ago, we are headed to the stealership in the morning to have it looked at.
I have bought the car in the USA - 2003 Civic Hybrid, 100k mil.
Now I have a problem with transmission - it not work! :sick:
There was it at cold weather - a minus of 23 degrees
I thought that at me one problem, but also at you too they are...
In the near future transmission repair will be made.
The car is good in one - it the economic car.
economy especially in the Euro zone. Honda is living off of past glory.
Transmission will be subjected dismantling and repair.
I will inform you on a course of works, for some people it will be useful.
I will tell fairly - never thought, that Honda makes such disgusting product :lemon:
http://nhthqnwws112.odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/acms/docservlet/Artemis/Public/Foreign%20C- ampaigns/2005/F-Campaigns/FRCL-05F063-4277.PDF
Then start asking why? Why did Japan's government require a recall, but "Uncle Sam" does not? What else do they know and when did they know it? :lemon:
This document can be found at The NHTSA website under "Foreign Campaigns".
Document number is FCRL-05F063-4277.