Our car has 129,000 miles; at 78,000 miles the transmission had to be replaced due to the recall. Just 10 months later the car is in the shop again receiving its second transmission. The car is driven a lot - freeway mileage, however, this is not something that should be happening to an Acura. Realistically, 129,000 miles is not a lot of miles for a semi-luxury car. I am in the process of finding out what Acura can do to fix this problem. This is obviously not an isolated incident, as many have had the same problem. I am also considering further action. If interested, please e-mail your problems concerning the transmission and contact information to carmeng.73@sbcglobal.net.
After reading the many postings on this site and others, this is a very serious problem. There are a lot of victims out there that should be compensated for the inconvenience that these problems have caused.
I have an Accord and have had issues with it as well. From what I've been able to gather it seems since around '98 Honda has been unable to build a decent transmission. I bought a Honda because of their "reliability", now I cannot wait to sell this thing and go back to a decent car! Probably will end up with a Mazda again, I've had several and never a single problem with any of them. Wish I had bought the 6 instead. I will defiantly never buy another Honda car again.
Yeah, you would get good deals with a Mazda. I have seen some 626's in my area that are priced about 1/4 the price of a DX Accord. Even if it was the ES model. I bet the 6 is pretty close, but at least 50% the value of an Accord DX. I feel bad for those Mazda people who bought new and took a hard hit on resale.
I have a 2001 Acura 3.2TL that had the transmission replaced at 15,000 miles and now, at 91,000 miles, the transmission is slipping. Is Acura still covering transmissions with the 2001 models?
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