In article <Xns991EDCF11E4F1tegger@207.14.116.130>,
Tegger <tegger@tegger.c0m> wrote:

> I also kinda wonder how many of those "problems" were due to nobody knowing
> how to properly check a Honda's AT fluid level.

That wasn't the case.

If it were, then every automatic transmission Honda ever built would
have been afflicted.

No, the incidences of auto trans failures from 98 through 04 were
incredibly high, much much more so than can be explained by "oh, but
suddenly come 1998, after years of automatic transmissions, nobody can
figure out how to check the fluid levels".