My wife's low mileage (18,000 at time of recall) '03 V-6 displays the exact
symptoms you describe after the recall work. Before that I thought this was
an amazingly smooth transmission. Not any more. A co-worker hasn't taken
his in for the recall because of the experience with my wife's. We need to
take it back to the dealer, but the inconvenience of doing so has caused us
to procrastinate.

Tom T.

"Sergey" <aaa@bbb.com> wrote in message
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> Hello All
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> Hoping to get some opinions on something that troubles me about my car's
> behavior .
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> It's a 2003 Accord EX V6 Automatic. It's been through the transmission
> recall repair on the 2nd gear on 12/11/04 (reason for recall - the gear
didn't
> get enough lubrication and was prone to breakage and seizing) where they
> installed an oil jet kit to provide extra lubrication for the 2nd gear.
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> Driving in usual 'light to light' suburban traffic, I started noticing a
> rather jerky shift from 1st to 2nd. Usually it happens when I am stuck
> behind somebody in traffic, and can't rapidly accelerate, so this specific
> shift occurs around 2,000 RPMs. Seems like my not applying more gas,
creates
> an 'unclean' shift that causes the car to kinda jerk and leap forward a
bit
> as shifting occurs. When I am able to accelerate more rapidly, shifting is
> smoother. I also noticed that this is more symptomatic in cold weather
when
> the car has been sitting out for a while. If the car ran for a while and
is
> warmed up, it doesn't seem to happen. Level of transmission fluid is as it
> should be.
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> I don't remember this being the case when I originally got this car almost
2
> yrs ago. In fact, I was pleasantly surprised by how smooth the shifting
was
> compared to my 1995 Accord LX V6 which I replaced with the car in
question.
> It had 17k miles on it at the time of recall repair and when I asked the
> service advisor if required inspection of the gear revealed any damage, he
> didn't answer my question directly, but rather said it's only a problem on
> cars with 70-80k miles and with mine it's more of a preventive measure.
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> Maybe it's my perception, but I think the jerky shift began after the
recall
> work. Chicago's cold temperature also seems to be a factor, but I am
fairly
> certain it hasn't happened in previous 2 winters.
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> Before I go back to the dealer and ask them to check it out, I wanted to
get
> some feedback from the experts in the group and see if anyone noticed
> anything similar or can give me some advice on what to try or what to arm
> myself with against what dealer might call 'normal' behavior.
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> Any feedback is much appreciated.
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> Thank you,
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> Sergey
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