I'm looking at an LX with 4 banger and 4 speed automatic. What are the
concerns?
Hank
"Elmo P. Shagnasty" <elmop@nastydesigns.com> wrote in message
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> In article <Qjsme.85$RV5.33@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com>,
> "Henry Kolesnik" <kolesnik@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> Which one is unreliable>
>
> The 4 speed auto trans that they hooked to their V6 engine, be it Accord
> or Odyssey, was pure junk. Everyone knows it, and Honda has a program
> out on those.
>
> Then they went to a 5 speed auto trans, in the 02 Odyssey and in the 03
> Accord. And guess what? They found out a couple years later that they
> screwed up with that one, too, and announced a $371 million recall--the
> most expensive in Honda history. They replaced transmissions left and
> right.
>
> I remember back in 2002 watching trans after trans being replaced at my
> dealership, and asking my mechanic about it. He said they were
> replacing 4 or so a week. For the suckers who had to pay for it, they
> were about $4K each.
>
> Honda screwed up with auto transmissions BIG time, and the fallout
> continues. Many people in the world don't even know about any of this,
> and no doubt pay out of their own pockets to fix problems Honda created
> through just plain bad engineering and assembly.
>
> Honda has a long way to go to convince me that these problems are behind
> them.
>