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Sedans Honda Accord 2008 Honda Accord VCM
1814 messages, Last post on Sep 03, 2008 at 7:00 PM
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Replying to: aviboy97 (Apr 01, 2008 8:34 am) It's pretty well known (on the Accord boards, anyway, thanks to elroy) that the transmission problems for Gen VII were on 2003 and early-build 2004 V6 models, so hearing a 2004 once in awhile doesn't surprise me. A friend of mine from high school (and now college) has a 2001 3.2CL; it's tranny bit the dust at 88k miles. Replaced free of charge though. It wasn't limited to Honda 3.0L models.
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Replying to: thegraduate (Apr 01, 2008 11:53 am) |
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Replying to: aviboy97 (Apr 01, 2008 8:34 am) Just reminder again, most are not making the separation of previous Honda VCMs with the current 2008 V6/VCM version. Previous were 2 stage cylinder deactivation scheme. 2008 is 3 stage cylinder deactivation scheme ..... jusvisitn, "2008 Honda Accord VCM" #1239, 29 Mar 2008 1:34 pm This is important distinction/difference and people have to look deeper. Again, this VCM is not same as past ones. There is a another forum called DriveAccord. Only very brief VCM topic there, however, it seems they're maybe mostly young'ish crowd and more interested in accessorizing their Accords for cruising & such.  Also, no mention of VCM issue at Consumer Reports' very sparsely populated forum. What about Edmunds long term review of 2008 Accord? When will be that updated? Or maybe people or reviewers who overlook the VCM thing, just figure it's a minor idiosyncrasy to be tolerated because it's for the Eco Cause? Where I work, just yesterday, I only briefly test drove someone's Accord, he just purchased which I saw in our employee parking lot. Only around the block a couple of times. It seemed okay & didn't feel anything, but not enough time & distance to really check it out. I did not tell that owner about the possible VCM issue which might unecessarily alarm him and then, he might kill me! (the 'messenger') For the last number of years, I've owned American cars & a truck right now, so I am not accustomed to current feel of the latest models. I'll first need to test drive other 2008 models (import & american) at dealership so I get a sense and then can get a better perspective when I do test drive with Accord again, at a dealership. Right now, the field is wide open for another car make other than Accord, but I want to test drive it anyway.
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Replying to: jusvisitn (Apr 01, 2008 7:24 pm) |
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Replying to: jusvisitn (Apr 01, 2008 7:24 pm) |
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Replying to: hank119 (Mar 31, 2008 9:55 pm) I floored the pedal from 60km/h trying to get the speed up to 70 and eventually to 90km/h. I think i waited for approx 10 seconds and gave up. I've actually read on other forums about the sluggish issue. I am going to test drive it one more time this weekend before giving up on the V6 Accord completely. As for the VCM problem, I felt a forceful shift when I was driving on a highway. I can't remember whether I was accelerating at the time. Sorry I can't give you more tech descriptions.
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Replying to: osagi (Apr 02, 2008 6:10 pm) |
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Replying to: osagi (Apr 02, 2008 6:10 pm) Alan |
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Replying to: cstiles (Mar 29, 2008 10:08 am) i did post a while back about problems with the VCM and I guess I just want to reiterate that I have all of the problems described herein, though perhaps not as bad as some. so yeah, the worst part of my VCM experience is doing about 45 coming up on a stop light, let go of the gas and coast, and suddenly its like the car has downshifted to first gear while i'm still going 40 miles and hour. its not like i'm gonna go flying through the windshield, but its not exactly smooth riding either. i suppose you could possibly videotape this, but what good would it do? so you get to see someone lean forward a few inches in their car when the 3cyl. mode kicks in. fantastic. great. then what?
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Replying to: henrychinaski (Apr 03, 2008 10:09 am) |
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