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1290 messages, Last post on Dec 01, 2009 at 5:58 PM
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I am worrying this transmission crap all the time I own a Honda. Plan to get rid of the Honda as soon as standard 3-yr / 36,000 mi. warranty is expired.
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Replying to: rfreitas (Feb 04, 2009 9:39 am) The dealership will let us know what the $$ is today so I'll be able to say whether 25% would even make a difference. Question: Has anyone ever gotten timing belt work done on their car at the same time? Would it save any labor costs to do so?
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Excuse the volume of my recent posts... I called the Honda Specialist again to ask him more about the "7 year 9 month, 109k warranty" he was telling me about. He used the term "extended warranty." I said that I never purchased an extended warranty and he again said that it didn't matter. The American Honda rep told me, "You don't have the extended warranty." I took him to mean that I didn't buy one. Did he mean that I didn't qualify for one? Why not? What this sounds like is the result of the Class Action lawsuit for the 99-01 models. Does that make sense?
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I also left a message for Rose at attorney's office that handled the class action lawsuit, but have yet to receive a call back. We were originally quoted $4200 to replace the transmission at Autoway Honda in Clearwater, FL -- which came with a 36K/3 yr warranty (our van has 70K miles). After 6 weeks ....YES, 6 weeks of going back and forth, they finally agreed to replace it for $1800 -- but with only a 12K/1 yr warranty. We took it to Aamco who will rebuild it for $2300 AND warranty it for LIFE. Be REALLY careful getting work done at the dealer (unless you're under warranty, of course). The dealer told us that we also had 2 broken engine mounts, but we've had two other shops look at it and there's only one broken mount. I've owned Honda's for the last 15 years, but this will be the last one that I will ever own. This experience has shown me their lack of professionalism, sneakiness, and unwillingness to take responsibility for their errors, which I might be willing to suffer through if they had a dependable product.....but alas, they don't!!
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I have a 2001 Odyssey which has run 73.5 k miles. 1) I'm told by my my local auto shop that the catalytic converter might have to be changed. I saw in some forums that up to 80k catalytic converter will be replaced by Honda. Is this true? I dont have a Honda warranty (it expired in 2008).From my vehicle history I see that Honda did a one time fix on the transmission of my car because of similar problems across many 2001 models - like a recall. 2) Does it make sense to buy an extended warranty? 3) I'm told a CC will cost $1000 for the Honda brand. Has anyone purchased Eastern Catalytic converter or anyother non honda converters? I see them listed for around $200. 4) Also I have not changed the timing belt on my car. Should i spend for all at once and hope to be happy for a while? Please help!
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Replying to: kmuodyssey01 (Feb 10, 2009 12:32 pm) It doesn't really make sense to purchase an extended warranty at this point, because in 2 years, you really don't know if you'll still be driving the same 2001 Odyssey. Honda did offer transmission replacements, although in recent years, they've been more restrictive and the offers less generous- even during earlier years, transmission failures were taken on a case by case basis by Honda North America in regards to payment. I'm sure at this age of the car, Honda would have stopped paying. I see it as you have 2 options: 1. You can fix everything that needs to be fixed right now (get a mechanic to do a complete inspection) and drive it for another few years 2. You can fix nothing, and go ahead and trade it in, and take a small hit on resale value. Any dealer will probably be fixing everything before putting it on the lot anyway, so you will take a hit on the trade-in value. Don't fix one thing but not fix the other- the 2 solutions that make financial sense (at least to me) are all or nothing solutions. |
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| About to drop $34K for a 09 EX-L and reading all these tranny problems on previous Odysseys... now I am concerned and realize why so many people are buying the extended warranties. I have a Accord that has never had a problem... Am I walking off a cliff here? | |
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Replying to: xhonzi (Feb 05, 2009 7:55 am) |
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Replying to: abt2buyody (Feb 20, 2009 10:42 pm) 15,000 miles later, the tranny went out----and we were gentle with it as we were with all our cars. I was SHOCKED. Shocked that a Honda van transmission would go out at less than 50,000 miles. But, I was more SHOCKED at the RUDE, unprofessional Honda of America attitude, like you are saying. Because I didn't buy it at a Honda dealership, they'd only give me $500. It cost $3,600 to fix. I told them about this site and that there were others who had double the mileage and they got all but $1,000 paid for. He said nastily, "if you don't like it, we can resend our offer to you". I was more than mad at that. I told him despite my great success with the Accord, I would not buy a Honda again. With that he said, Fine. We resend our offer. I hate Honda Of America now. DESPISE them. They're attitude is counterproductive to say the least. Oh but of course----we are all lying. We have nothing else to do, but bad mouth Honda of America.
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