Believe it - Honda Accord 2005 Transmission fluid leak in 3000 Miles

Hello Folks,

Please help me understand about what are all my options. Here is my sad
story. We bought a Honda Accrod EX 2005 model on November 2005. We put
in 3000 miles last week and took the car for the oil change..this where
we got a heart attack...the local shop advised that, the oil leak
everywhere around the transmission and they advised me that, it is very
very unusual.

And we took our car to the local Honda dealer to verify it, they also
advised me that, they need to change the entire transmission. Here is
our option, we or no one wants to touch our transmission in the 3000
miles.

We talked to the dealer to know more about our options, they said, the
dealer could buy it for a very very cheaper price as a used car. But we
are kind of so disappointed about this car and we couldnt even believe
this story. In the sametime, we dont want loose 4000 to 5000 bucks on
this car to seel it to the dealer as a used car.

Please guys helps us understand what do we need to do to get a
favourable option towards the owners perspective.

Is there anyway we might talk to the American Honda people to make our
case strong and get us another car or do some favour on our side
instead of loosing couple thousand dollars to sell it to the dealer.

We are kind of so disappointed please help us understand the
seriousnous of the problem.

Please advice folks...

 

wrote:
<snip bleating>

have you ever heard of a "factory warranty"? this car is covered by
one. details are in your owners manual. use it.

 

I understand they will fix it...but, we are not feeling much
comfortable having this new car with the transmission fixed ....i have
a question though...once the dealar fix this tranmission issue...If
idecide to sell this car in the future, Is some one will be seeing in
the CarFax history that, the transmission got fixed ?

Please advice....

 

The transmission will not be fixed. It will be replaced. Honda had a bunch
of bad AT's a few years ago in their Acura and minivans. All were replaced
with no future issues.

 

eh? why not? if you don't like the car, sell it. if you do, keep it
and continue to enjoy the warranty.

eh? no, but even if you did, so what? if the transmission was replaced
under factory warranty, it's as good as new, not some garbage welded
together out the back of greasy joes crowbar and bait emporium. and why
are you wasting your time with carfax? it only gives you /reported/
issues. unreported issues go... you guessed it... unreported!

i advise you let the dealer fix the car under warranty, then sell it,
and go ride the bus from now on. that way you don't have any
responsibilities or any really really really hard decisions to make.

 

If you sell the car or trade it in your losing at least 25% of what you
paid, or will pay.
(Assuming you purchased rather than leased). If the car keeps giving
you problems than you can talk to the dealer and if the dealer has no
"good will" offer to make, then you can use the "lemon law" to get out
of this particular car.

 

The first part is true, but the "no future issues" thing is not quite
true. Plenty of people are on their third and fourth transmissions,
some of them being swapped out every week or two until they got a good
one.

Shame on Honda.

 

as a side note...

do stolen/recovered cars get reported? my boss had a tahoe XL that was
stolen and recovered, but they (awww... too damn bad!) took all the
teevee screens out and screwed up the dash and headliner in the process.

i say even if it gets fixed, the tahoe still has "diminished value"
compared to an unstolen one.

 

A tranny can leak just cause some idiot did not get the gasket in the
right place. Honda trannies are not that vulnerable to leaks - but it
does happen. A couple of years ago was on my belly in a Honda showroom
looking at the underside of an Oddy to see where the oil drain/filter
were located - real PITA on my 97 accord - have to jack her up to
change the oil.

The double digit iq sales turkey comes over and asks, "What are you
doing under that Odyssey" - said it in a very nasty tone - he was
working with a couple who were considering buying an Oddy - I said to
the DD IQ sales turkey - "Since you asked in such a nice way - hey this
tranny has a leak - tranny fluid is on the floor - better get that leak
fixed before some sucker buys it."

My 97 accord has 194 on the clock - no problems with the auto tranny
except for replacing speed sensors - easy fix at about 140K.

 

Thanks for all your valuable feedback on this. Well, let honda fix the
transmission problem and keep it until it has a factory warrenty until
36K and sell it.

None of the car is near perfect, understand ofcourse cars are assembled
by human being.

 

Oh! I'm sorry .My english is not verry well.
Can you speak chinese?