"Chuck Phillips" <charlesphillips01@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> My son has the above car with the 5speed transmission. While he was at
> school last week, it slipped out of gear and ran into his boss's truck
> which caused over $1600+ in damages to my sons car. The Honda Recall site
> mentions an ignition problem that might allow the car to slip out of park
> but does not mention anything about the manual transmission. Has anyone
> heard about this problem with the manual?
>
> Please contact me at cphillips@crsdata.com so I can start a total.
I have never known a manual tranny to pop out of gear when parked. It takes
energy to move the shifter and there is just no place for that energy to
come from. (Not so an automatic, where the parking pawl is not assured of
seating in the first place.) The inescapable conclusion is that the shifter
was left in neutral. It happens to everybody at times - I'm sorry your son's
car was a victim of bad odds.

Mike