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Re: 2008 Honda Accord EX LV6 coupe pleasures [golfrski]
by sky16
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Sep 30, 2008 (6:32 pm)
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Replying to: golfrski (Aug 08, 2008 6:50 pm)
I bought a Honda Accord ex Lv6 manual with navigation and have had problems with shifting smoothly into 3rd gear and was told by the dealer that the problem usually goes away at 10,000 miles but it did not. They replaced the gearbox last week and was given a PT Cruiser Rental Car which was a piece of junk to drive for two days. When I picked up the car after the new gear box was in a day later I had a hard time putting it into first gear getting onto the highway and was afraid someone would rear end me. Then throughout the week that got better until yesterday when it started making a whining sound when I would shift into the different gears finally it started kicking out of 4th gear into neutral on its on. This morning I barely was able to get the car to the dealer and they gave me a better rental a mazda 3 since I asked for a safer car. The dealer told me they are taking the transmission completely apart to look at it and may have the car completed on Friday. Since the dealer does not pay the $18 for the extra insurance in case someone crashes into your car and you have to pay loss of rental which can be $2000 for the month this transmission problem is now costing me $100 out of pocket which I am terribly unhappy about. I honestly don't know if I will buy another Honda after this experience unless they get their act together with this vehicle.  
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Re: 2008 Honda Accord EX LV6 coupe pleasures [sky16]
by thegraduate
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Oct 01, 2008 (6:16 am)
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Replying to: sky16 (Sep 30, 2008 6:32 pm)
Perhaps the Honda Accord Maintenance Forum would be a better place for this post, since your car isn't equipped with VCM, the topic of this particular forum.
I'm very sorry to hear about the troubles you're having! I'd be disappointed too, no doubt.
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Re: 2008 Honda Accord EX LV6 coupe pleasures [sky16]
by pat HOST
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Oct 01, 2008 (8:12 am)
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Replying to: sky16 (Sep 30, 2008 6:32 pm)
Let's continue this here: sky16, "Honda Accord 2008-2009 Maintenance and Repair" #671, 30 Sep 2008 7:48 pm.
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Re: 2008 Honda Accord EX LV6 coupe pleasures [thegraduate]
by sky16
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Oct 01, 2008 (7:35 pm)
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Replying to: thegraduate (Oct 01, 2008 6:16 am)
Thanks for responding and forwarding me to the correct section along with your concern. I believe Honda will straighten this problem out as I believe they like to keep customers for life. Thanks again.
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2008 Honda Accord
by anthonyy
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Oct 13, 2008 (12:47 pm)
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Has anyone out there experienced problems with shimmying/vibration/ droning when at 45-50 mph?
Appreciate hearing from you.
jdy
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Re: 2008 Honda Accord [anthonyy]
by thegraduate
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Oct 14, 2008 (12:53 pm)
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Replying to: anthonyy (Oct 13, 2008 12:47 pm)
I assume V6?
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- #1885 of 2189
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PCM update
by jam1000
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Oct 21, 2008 (9:02 am)
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I had my car in for its 7500 mile service about 10 days ago, and mentioned my primary issue -- extremely rough trans. shifts, especially downshifts, b/w 2d and 3d and 3d and 4th. The service advisor said she was not aware of any known issues but, at my request, checked for software updates. It turned out there was an update for the PCM (power control module), and it was downloaded (or whatever the correct term is). Since then, the shifts have been considerably smoother, though they are still often somewhat harsher (transmission drags for 2-3 seconds or so through a shift) than what I would like them to be. It is at least bearable at this point, if still not ideal.
I don't know whether this update affects the vibration and surging issues that others have reported at higher speeds, since I haven't really had it out on the highway since the update was installed. I didn't really experience these issues to begin with, so I probably wouldn't be in the best position to advise on that.
I took delivery of my car in Dec. 2007, so the update presumably came out sometime after that. I'm a little disappointed that I had raised this issue, repeatedly, with the dealer's service department and with Honda's customer service operation in Torrance, CA, and nobody bothered to apprise me of the availability of this update. I recognize that the left hand often doesn't know what the right is doing, but where people actually complain to corporate and there is a potential fix that is released, it doesn't seem that hard to come up with a system to get the message out to the affected people.
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Re: PCM update [jam1000]
by elroy5
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Oct 21, 2008 (3:01 pm)
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Replying to: jam1000 (Oct 21, 2008 9:02 am)
Honda does communicate with it's technicians. The problem is, warranty work pays less than maintenance/non-warranty work. So if the service department has plenty of non-warranty/maintenance work, they are reluctant to take a job that involves warranty and or diagnostic. For example, they can do a complete brake job on a car in less than an hour, with no diagnostic time needed. Your car may take more than an hour (or two or three), just to diagnose. Which job do you think they want? The trick is to find a dealership/service manager that is honest, or actually needs work (warranty or not).
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Re: PCM update [elroy5]
by jam1000
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Oct 22, 2008 (11:07 am)
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Replying to: elroy5 (Oct 21, 2008 3:01 pm)
That's one way of looking at it. But the flip side of that coin is that Honda is paying the providers that do its warranty work less than market, and so is not entirely living up to its warranty commitments (or maybe, more precisely, is saying that it will provide warranty service to the customer but it won't be as good, thorough, quick as "regular" service work). Isn't Honda at least as much to blame as its dealers for incenting them to do non-warranty work over warranty work. (I'm not necessarily singling Honda out here, since I assume most if not all mfrs. do the same thing.)
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Re: PCM update [jam1000]
by elroy5
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Oct 22, 2008 (2:14 pm)
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Replying to: jam1000 (Oct 22, 2008 11:07 am)
Honda is only going to pay a reasonable amount for warranty work. They know how long a job should take. Some person off the street, who wants maintenance work done, (most times) has no idea how much work is actually involved, or how long it should take. Should Honda mandate how much each dealer can charge for maintenance work? I think there would be a lot less Honda dealerships if they did that. I don't think there is any way Honda can dictate to dealerships what they can charge a paying customer. I do think you can find Honest dealerships, but it may not be the closest dealership to where you live. luckily, none of my vehicles has been to a dealership (except for minor recall work) for at least 15 years. 
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