Well, it finally happened. A couple of days ago, the CEL came on in my
wife's 98 Accord V6. She also re****ted that she thought the car wasn't
****fting normally. I drove it and couldn't be sure, but I thought it was
not ****fting as decisively as it normally does. Fearing the worst, I had
her take it over to our favored independent shop this morning so he
could pull the code. Sure enough, he re****ted that it indicated problems
with the transmission.
The car has 116K miles on it. We purchased it used (certified, with a
HondaCare warranty) from a Honda dealer about five years ago with 41K
miles on it. Major service interval maintenance has been performed at
the same dealer, and a drain-and-refill was just performed about three
months ago. I am well aware of the numerous problems with the V6 auto
transmissions, as well as Honda's quiet warranty extension on the 00/01
model years and "unofficial" warranty extension on some of the other
years. Frankly, it's ridiculous that a Honda transmission should be
heading toward failure at under 120K miles.
The code was reset after being read today. Assuming it recurs, I plan to
take the car in to the dealer and attempt to make the case that Honda
should cover the cost of a replacement transmission as this is a well-
do***ented engineering flaw and they have provided similar consideration
in the past to other owners. I'm not sure how much this dealer will be
willing to go to bat for me with American Honda, but I'm prepared to
contact American Honda directly if I can't reach a mutually acceptable
agreement with the dealer. I'm hoping that my long history of Honda
owner****p will count in my favor if they're on the fence about doing
anything.
For those of you who have dealt with this problem previously, and have
managed to convince Honda to absorb some/all of the cost of a new
transmission, any words of advice as to the best approach to take, or
links to other sites I might want to check out?
Thanks in advance,
Dave
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