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Subject: '00 Accord Interesting Transmission Discovery

Author:
Justin

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Date Posted: 10:01:37 07/16/05 Sat
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I know this post is long, but I'm hoping someone can confirm/deny what I've been told by Honda, and maybe it'll help you out as well!

Per the advice of an Acura technician friend of mine, I took my 2000 Accord EX-L to Honda about the auto transmission. I'm sure you've all heard/talked about the extended warranty, etc. My car has 96k on it, so I wanted to get it check out real quick before 100k.

For as long as I can remember, if you put the tranny into "2" and let go of the brake immediately, the car starts to go forward, but then suddenly jerks to a near-halt. If you do this on an upward hill (not too steep of one), the car will start to climb, but then you can feel the tranny do something, and it loses its grip after about 2 seconds, and either holds still or starts to roll backwards. My friend told me to definitely take it in because this was a sign that the tranny was slipping in 2nd gear.

The mechanic at Honda yesterday said, of course, "that's normal". He went on to explain that when you shift into 2nd, it's actually shifting into 3rd for a "smoother shift", then shifting into 2nd a few seconds later. I've NEVER heard that before, and it seem to be completely backwards from what's happening. If it does shift into 3rd, I would think it would start rolling backward first, then shift to 2nd and then start climbing the hill. Either way, I don't believe him, and it's just another cover-up so they don't have to do any free work.

MY POINT: Does anyone know if this is true or not? I encourage all you '98-'02 owners out there to try what I described above and see if your cars do it. If someone could report back to me so I can take these people to the cleaners, I'd appreciate it.

Also, if anyone has had success in forcing Honda into giving you a new tranny, please explain what yours was doing and how you showed them the problem, or used excessive force as a bargaining chip!

Thanks in advance, and sorry for the long post...just very frustrated here!

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