Transmission Toast at 44,000 miles! 2002 Civic EX
 

Hi,

I had a 2002 Honda Civic EX for one year. Previous owner did all
maintenance required. Car always run like a charm. Yesterday while
driving uphill on a mild slope the transmission just blew-up! The car
came to a complete stop and in the middle of the road and it would not
move forward or backwards. My mechanic wants to charge me 4K to rebuid
it. I almost passed out! Aren't these cars supposed to be reliable?!

I called a specialized transmission shop and they cannon believe that a
transmission would just blow in a Honda with 44K miles, specially
without any warning. They want to diagnose it and would charge me 2K
worse case-scenario.

Honda dealership wants to look at it and they say they might be able to
do something since I am only 9K out of the warantee, but if they have
to replace it it would be even more than 4K. Hell, the ftranny reight
from Japan would be 400 bucks!

I am sooo disapointed with Honda! This is my 3rd Honda. My last one
was stolen and I took my chances buying a new one just for the
reliability! I am sooo pised! Any advice?

Patty

Re: Transmission Toast at 44,000 miles! 2002 Civic EX
 

dolo.diaz@gmail.com wrote:

> Honda dealership wants to look at it and they say they might be able to
> do something since I am only 9K out of the warantee, but if they have
> to replace it it would be even more than 4K. Hell, the ftranny reight
> from Japan would be 400 bucks!
>


Certainly start with the dealership and see if they can get Honda to
cover you if it needs replacement. Honda has a reputation for giving
some slack on warranty issues.

My advice is to start by being very concerned and asking for help.
Emphasis that you are a repeat Honda customer and are very surprised by
this unexpected turn of events. Ask the dealership to do everything
they can to help you in your time of need. Try not to express anger in
the first interactions as that might put the dealership people on the
defensive rather than putting them into a help you out frame of mind.

Hopefully you will be pleasantly surprised.

John

Re: Transmission Toast at 44,000 miles! 2002 Civic EX
 

dolo.diaz@gmail.com wrote:

> Honda dealership wants to look at it and they say they might be able to
> do something since I am only 9K out of the warantee, but if they have
> to replace it it would be even more than 4K. Hell, the ftranny reight
> from Japan would be 400 bucks!
>


Certainly start with the dealership and see if they can get Honda to
cover you if it needs replacement. Honda has a reputation for giving
some slack on warranty issues.

My advice is to start by being very concerned and asking for help.
Emphasis that you are a repeat Honda customer and are very surprised by
this unexpected turn of events. Ask the dealership to do everything
they can to help you in your time of need. Try not to express anger in
the first interactions as that might put the dealership people on the
defensive rather than putting them into a help you out frame of mind.

Hopefully you will be pleasantly surprised.

John

Re: Transmission Toast at 44,000 miles! 2002 Civic EX
 

dolo.diaz@gmail.com wrote:

> Honda dealership wants to look at it and they say they might be able to
> do something since I am only 9K out of the warantee, but if they have
> to replace it it would be even more than 4K. Hell, the ftranny reight
> from Japan would be 400 bucks!
>


Certainly start with the dealership and see if they can get Honda to
cover you if it needs replacement. Honda has a reputation for giving
some slack on warranty issues.

My advice is to start by being very concerned and asking for help.
Emphasis that you are a repeat Honda customer and are very surprised by
this unexpected turn of events. Ask the dealership to do everything
they can to help you in your time of need. Try not to express anger in
the first interactions as that might put the dealership people on the
defensive rather than putting them into a help you out frame of mind.

Hopefully you will be pleasantly surprised.

John

Re: Transmission Toast at 44,000 miles! 2002 Civic EX
 

dolo.diaz@gmail.com wrote:

> Honda dealership wants to look at it and they say they might be able to
> do something since I am only 9K out of the warantee, but if they have
> to replace it it would be even more than 4K. Hell, the ftranny reight
> from Japan would be 400 bucks!
>


Certainly start with the dealership and see if they can get Honda to
cover you if it needs replacement. Honda has a reputation for giving
some slack on warranty issues.

My advice is to start by being very concerned and asking for help.
Emphasis that you are a repeat Honda customer and are very surprised by
this unexpected turn of events. Ask the dealership to do everything
they can to help you in your time of need. Try not to express anger in
the first interactions as that might put the dealership people on the
defensive rather than putting them into a help you out frame of mind.

Hopefully you will be pleasantly surprised.

John

Re: Transmission Toast at 44,000 miles! 2002 Civic EX
 

dolo.diaz@gmail.com wrote in
news:1153793893.904787.165200@p79g2000cwp.googlegr oups.com:

> Hi,
>
> I had a 2002 Honda Civic EX for one year. Previous owner did all
> maintenance required. Car always run like a charm. Yesterday while
> driving uphill on a mild slope the transmission just blew-up! The car
> came to a complete stop and in the middle of the road and it would not
> move forward or backwards. My mechanic wants to charge me 4K to rebuid
> it. I almost passed out! Aren't these cars supposed to be reliable?!
>
> I called a specialized transmission shop and they cannon believe that a
> transmission would just blow in a Honda with 44K miles, specially
> without any warning. They want to diagnose it and would charge me 2K
> worse case-scenario.
>
> Honda dealership wants to look at it and they say they might be able to
> do something since I am only 9K out of the warantee, but if they have
> to replace it it would be even more than 4K. Hell, the ftranny reight
> from Japan would be 400 bucks!
>



See my reply to this identical message in rec.autos.makers.honda.


--
TeGGeR®

The Unofficial Honda/Acura FAQ
www.tegger.com/hondafaq/

Re: Transmission Toast at 44,000 miles! 2002 Civic EX
 

dolo.diaz@gmail.com wrote in
news:1153793893.904787.165200@p79g2000cwp.googlegr oups.com:

> Hi,
>
> I had a 2002 Honda Civic EX for one year. Previous owner did all
> maintenance required. Car always run like a charm. Yesterday while
> driving uphill on a mild slope the transmission just blew-up! The car
> came to a complete stop and in the middle of the road and it would not
> move forward or backwards. My mechanic wants to charge me 4K to rebuid
> it. I almost passed out! Aren't these cars supposed to be reliable?!
>
> I called a specialized transmission shop and they cannon believe that a
> transmission would just blow in a Honda with 44K miles, specially
> without any warning. They want to diagnose it and would charge me 2K
> worse case-scenario.
>
> Honda dealership wants to look at it and they say they might be able to
> do something since I am only 9K out of the warantee, but if they have
> to replace it it would be even more than 4K. Hell, the ftranny reight
> from Japan would be 400 bucks!
>



See my reply to this identical message in rec.autos.makers.honda.


--
TeGGeR®

The Unofficial Honda/Acura FAQ
www.tegger.com/hondafaq/

Re: Transmission Toast at 44,000 miles! 2002 Civic EX
 

dolo.diaz@gmail.com wrote in
news:1153793893.904787.165200@p79g2000cwp.googlegr oups.com:

> Hi,
>
> I had a 2002 Honda Civic EX for one year. Previous owner did all
> maintenance required. Car always run like a charm. Yesterday while
> driving uphill on a mild slope the transmission just blew-up! The car
> came to a complete stop and in the middle of the road and it would not
> move forward or backwards. My mechanic wants to charge me 4K to rebuid
> it. I almost passed out! Aren't these cars supposed to be reliable?!
>
> I called a specialized transmission shop and they cannon believe that a
> transmission would just blow in a Honda with 44K miles, specially
> without any warning. They want to diagnose it and would charge me 2K
> worse case-scenario.
>
> Honda dealership wants to look at it and they say they might be able to
> do something since I am only 9K out of the warantee, but if they have
> to replace it it would be even more than 4K. Hell, the ftranny reight
> from Japan would be 400 bucks!
>



See my reply to this identical message in rec.autos.makers.honda.


--
TeGGeR®

The Unofficial Honda/Acura FAQ
www.tegger.com/hondafaq/

Re: Transmission Toast at 44,000 miles! 2002 Civic EX
 

dolo.diaz@gmail.com wrote in
news:1153793893.904787.165200@p79g2000cwp.googlegr oups.com:

> Hi,
>
> I had a 2002 Honda Civic EX for one year. Previous owner did all
> maintenance required. Car always run like a charm. Yesterday while
> driving uphill on a mild slope the transmission just blew-up! The car
> came to a complete stop and in the middle of the road and it would not
> move forward or backwards. My mechanic wants to charge me 4K to rebuid
> it. I almost passed out! Aren't these cars supposed to be reliable?!
>
> I called a specialized transmission shop and they cannon believe that a
> transmission would just blow in a Honda with 44K miles, specially
> without any warning. They want to diagnose it and would charge me 2K
> worse case-scenario.
>
> Honda dealership wants to look at it and they say they might be able to
> do something since I am only 9K out of the warantee, but if they have
> to replace it it would be even more than 4K. Hell, the ftranny reight
> from Japan would be 400 bucks!
>



See my reply to this identical message in rec.autos.makers.honda.


--
TeGGeR®

The Unofficial Honda/Acura FAQ
www.tegger.com/hondafaq/

OT: Re: Transmission Toast at 44,000 miles! 2002 Civic EX
 

On 7/25/2006 2:28 AM TeGGeR® spake these words of knowledge:

> dolo.diaz@gmail.com wrote in
> news:1153793893.904787.165200@p79g2000cwp.googlegr oups.com:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I had a 2002 Honda Civic EX for one year. Previous owner did all
>> maintenance required. Car always run like a charm. Yesterday while
>> driving uphill on a mild slope the transmission just blew-up! The car
>> came to a complete stop and in the middle of the road and it would not
>> move forward or backwards. My mechanic wants to charge me 4K to rebuid
>> it. I almost passed out! Aren't these cars supposed to be reliable?!
>>
>> I called a specialized transmission shop and they cannon believe that a
>> transmission would just blow in a Honda with 44K miles, specially
>> without any warning. They want to diagnose it and would charge me 2K
>> worse case-scenario.
>>
>> Honda dealership wants to look at it and they say they might be able to
>> do something since I am only 9K out of the warantee, but if they have
>> to replace it it would be even more than 4K. Hell, the ftranny reight
>> from Japan would be 400 bucks!
>>
>
>
>
> See my reply to this identical message in rec.autos.makers.honda.

Tegger, many people don't read rec.auto.makers.honda. I see that
putting this message here serves to direct those people to finishing the
thread, but why not put the reply in all of the newsgroups? If everyone
read all the newsgroups out there, we'd only need one.

This is something I've never understood, and I've been on usenet since
the early 80's. Heck, I'm one of those suckers who was paying $4 a
month to keep dialup Fidonet going.

If I were asking a question in several Honda groups, it would be because
I would expect to contact different people; of course, there are many
who subscribe to multiple newsgroups on a subject - and there are many
who don't. I have actually seen grown people (who should know better)
suggest that it's OK to ask a question in more than one newsgroup, as
long as you don't do it by sending the same question at once, but rather
by typing it (or at least) sending it as a separate transmission. I
have never found anyone who could suggest a reasonable basis for this
notion.

Anyway, I think of you as a pretty reasonable person, so perhaps you can
help an old computer guy out.


RFT!!!
Dave Kelsen
--
I looked for evidence of collusion between the tobacco industry and
firearms manufacturers, but alas, I could find no "smoking gun."

OT: Re: Transmission Toast at 44,000 miles! 2002 Civic EX
 

On 7/25/2006 2:28 AM TeGGeR® spake these words of knowledge:

> dolo.diaz@gmail.com wrote in
> news:1153793893.904787.165200@p79g2000cwp.googlegr oups.com:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I had a 2002 Honda Civic EX for one year. Previous owner did all
>> maintenance required. Car always run like a charm. Yesterday while
>> driving uphill on a mild slope the transmission just blew-up! The car
>> came to a complete stop and in the middle of the road and it would not
>> move forward or backwards. My mechanic wants to charge me 4K to rebuid
>> it. I almost passed out! Aren't these cars supposed to be reliable?!
>>
>> I called a specialized transmission shop and they cannon believe that a
>> transmission would just blow in a Honda with 44K miles, specially
>> without any warning. They want to diagnose it and would charge me 2K
>> worse case-scenario.
>>
>> Honda dealership wants to look at it and they say they might be able to
>> do something since I am only 9K out of the warantee, but if they have
>> to replace it it would be even more than 4K. Hell, the ftranny reight
>> from Japan would be 400 bucks!
>>
>
>
>
> See my reply to this identical message in rec.autos.makers.honda.

Tegger, many people don't read rec.auto.makers.honda. I see that
putting this message here serves to direct those people to finishing the
thread, but why not put the reply in all of the newsgroups? If everyone
read all the newsgroups out there, we'd only need one.

This is something I've never understood, and I've been on usenet since
the early 80's. Heck, I'm one of those suckers who was paying $4 a
month to keep dialup Fidonet going.

If I were asking a question in several Honda groups, it would be because
I would expect to contact different people; of course, there are many
who subscribe to multiple newsgroups on a subject - and there are many
who don't. I have actually seen grown people (who should know better)
suggest that it's OK to ask a question in more than one newsgroup, as
long as you don't do it by sending the same question at once, but rather
by typing it (or at least) sending it as a separate transmission. I
have never found anyone who could suggest a reasonable basis for this
notion.

Anyway, I think of you as a pretty reasonable person, so perhaps you can
help an old computer guy out.


RFT!!!
Dave Kelsen
--
I looked for evidence of collusion between the tobacco industry and
firearms manufacturers, but alas, I could find no "smoking gun."

OT: Re: Transmission Toast at 44,000 miles! 2002 Civic EX
 

On 7/25/2006 2:28 AM TeGGeR® spake these words of knowledge:

> dolo.diaz@gmail.com wrote in
> news:1153793893.904787.165200@p79g2000cwp.googlegr oups.com:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I had a 2002 Honda Civic EX for one year. Previous owner did all
>> maintenance required. Car always run like a charm. Yesterday while
>> driving uphill on a mild slope the transmission just blew-up! The car
>> came to a complete stop and in the middle of the road and it would not
>> move forward or backwards. My mechanic wants to charge me 4K to rebuid
>> it. I almost passed out! Aren't these cars supposed to be reliable?!
>>
>> I called a specialized transmission shop and they cannon believe that a
>> transmission would just blow in a Honda with 44K miles, specially
>> without any warning. They want to diagnose it and would charge me 2K
>> worse case-scenario.
>>
>> Honda dealership wants to look at it and they say they might be able to
>> do something since I am only 9K out of the warantee, but if they have
>> to replace it it would be even more than 4K. Hell, the ftranny reight
>> from Japan would be 400 bucks!
>>
>
>
>
> See my reply to this identical message in rec.autos.makers.honda.

Tegger, many people don't read rec.auto.makers.honda. I see that
putting this message here serves to direct those people to finishing the
thread, but why not put the reply in all of the newsgroups? If everyone
read all the newsgroups out there, we'd only need one.

This is something I've never understood, and I've been on usenet since
the early 80's. Heck, I'm one of those suckers who was paying $4 a
month to keep dialup Fidonet going.

If I were asking a question in several Honda groups, it would be because
I would expect to contact different people; of course, there are many
who subscribe to multiple newsgroups on a subject - and there are many
who don't. I have actually seen grown people (who should know better)
suggest that it's OK to ask a question in more than one newsgroup, as
long as you don't do it by sending the same question at once, but rather
by typing it (or at least) sending it as a separate transmission. I
have never found anyone who could suggest a reasonable basis for this
notion.

Anyway, I think of you as a pretty reasonable person, so perhaps you can
help an old computer guy out.


RFT!!!
Dave Kelsen
--
I looked for evidence of collusion between the tobacco industry and
firearms manufacturers, but alas, I could find no "smoking gun."

OT: Re: Transmission Toast at 44,000 miles! 2002 Civic EX
 

On 7/25/2006 2:28 AM TeGGeR® spake these words of knowledge:

> dolo.diaz@gmail.com wrote in
> news:1153793893.904787.165200@p79g2000cwp.googlegr oups.com:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I had a 2002 Honda Civic EX for one year. Previous owner did all
>> maintenance required. Car always run like a charm. Yesterday while
>> driving uphill on a mild slope the transmission just blew-up! The car
>> came to a complete stop and in the middle of the road and it would not
>> move forward or backwards. My mechanic wants to charge me 4K to rebuid
>> it. I almost passed out! Aren't these cars supposed to be reliable?!
>>
>> I called a specialized transmission shop and they cannon believe that a
>> transmission would just blow in a Honda with 44K miles, specially
>> without any warning. They want to diagnose it and would charge me 2K
>> worse case-scenario.
>>
>> Honda dealership wants to look at it and they say they might be able to
>> do something since I am only 9K out of the warantee, but if they have
>> to replace it it would be even more than 4K. Hell, the ftranny reight
>> from Japan would be 400 bucks!
>>
>
>
>
> See my reply to this identical message in rec.autos.makers.honda.

Tegger, many people don't read rec.auto.makers.honda. I see that
putting this message here serves to direct those people to finishing the
thread, but why not put the reply in all of the newsgroups? If everyone
read all the newsgroups out there, we'd only need one.

This is something I've never understood, and I've been on usenet since
the early 80's. Heck, I'm one of those suckers who was paying $4 a
month to keep dialup Fidonet going.

If I were asking a question in several Honda groups, it would be because
I would expect to contact different people; of course, there are many
who subscribe to multiple newsgroups on a subject - and there are many
who don't. I have actually seen grown people (who should know better)
suggest that it's OK to ask a question in more than one newsgroup, as
long as you don't do it by sending the same question at once, but rather
by typing it (or at least) sending it as a separate transmission. I
have never found anyone who could suggest a reasonable basis for this
notion.

Anyway, I think of you as a pretty reasonable person, so perhaps you can
help an old computer guy out.


RFT!!!
Dave Kelsen
--
I looked for evidence of collusion between the tobacco industry and
firearms manufacturers, but alas, I could find no "smoking gun."

Re: OT: Re: Transmission Toast at 44,000 miles! 2002 Civic EX
 

In article <B%nxg.341$Wi.297@tornado.tampabay.rr.com>,
Dave Kelsen <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> If I were asking a question in several Honda groups, it would be because
> I would expect to contact different people;

Which is why cross-posting exists.

Re: OT: Re: Transmission Toast at 44,000 miles! 2002 Civic EX
 

In article <B%nxg.341$Wi.297@tornado.tampabay.rr.com>,
Dave Kelsen <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> If I were asking a question in several Honda groups, it would be because
> I would expect to contact different people;

Which is why cross-posting exists.