My very well maintained 2000 SS tranny has just died at 84,300 miles.
Same general symptoms. The initial indicator, a torque converter jerk on rolling to a stop (this was always present since the car was new) became slightly more pronounced. A few days later, a sudden drop out of 4th & 3rd into 2nd. I could shift into 3rd with about 10 attempts, but it would drop back into 2nd randomly. Not very fun! Lost reverse when warmed up also.
I bet it may have lasted longer if I had actually installed the tranny oil cooler that's been sitting on my shelf for the past couple of years!
The car is at a dealer in socal now. I have I/E/P on the car, so we'll see what happens.
As I have 96,500 miles on the odo, I figured it was time to get the tranny taken care of. Here's my story --
I scheduled a service appt. through Honda Ownerlink for today at noon at Jim Coleman Honda in Clarksville, MD. I brought with me the recall notification printed from the Ownerlink page and pulled into the service bay. A friend had recommended service advisor Clifton, so I found him and began to explain my problem and what I wanted done. He was extremely helpful and explained to me that he would have someone road test the vehicle and then go from there if it exhibits the signs. About an hour later, Clifton came into the waiting room / showroom floor and told me the tech did notice the signs and also noticed my transmission fluid was extremely dark/dirty so he suggested they change my fluid. I explained to him that I had my fluid replaced only 5000 miles ago and he then said, "Oh! In that case, let me see if I can't order you a new transmission. I'll call you later today when I find out." I thanked him and went on my way...
At around 5:30pm, I received a call from Clifton and he told me they went ahead and ordered the transmission and it should arrive on Th 6/21 or Fri 6/22 and that I should expect to drop my car off at some point the next Monday, 6/25 and that it'd be ready by end of day on Tuesday 6/26. I thanked him and ended the call.
This is looking very good and hassle-free so far. I suppose the verdict won't be reached until the new tranny is in, but my experience with the dealer was much better than many I have seen on this forum and others... just thought I'd share =]
BTW - I have I/E and coilovers as far as major mods and these were not brought up at all so I'm going to give props to Coleman for not being dicks
Got her back today with a fresh tranny. I'm finally experiencing SS as it was meant to be.. it's much faster than I thought and definitely much smoother now.
id like to make a complaint. ive gone thru one tranny already. it was replaced by the dealer warranty. i only had the car 2 months and it went with 70k on it. even after it was replaced it never really felt that strong kinda shaky like. its doing ok tho so i hope i dont have any more issues with it. its got 130k now
I just replaced my ATF with Amsoil sythetic from driving 10k on Honda Z-1 but the car still stutters in reverse, especially when backing up the bottom of an incline. Also, 1-2 shift is like a rubber band under moderate throttle going up a gentle incline. I am thinking about selling the car, it has 160k now, I don't imagine Honda would give me a cheap reman tranny, what is the number to Honda Care anyway, maybe I should call them.
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98 Prelude San Marino Red SS just got it 10/9/03
OK Heres my question I have a 2001 SS prelude and I got a bunch of modifications such as: Intake, header, intake mani., camshafts, and exhaust. and my car is near the 75xxx mile mark and my car is slipping from 1st to 2nd gears. Will my car still be covered under the tranny warrenty since i have all these modifications, or do I have to turn my car to stock to get the warrenty satisfied? Should I call Honda Care?
OK well I called the honda dealer and talked to the head rep of the service department and I told them what mods I had and Asked them if they would void the ext. warrenty and he said as long as I didn't modify the transmission its self then I will be ok. So basically As long as you dont mess with your transmission then it should be ok. But Anyway I made adn appointment to drop my car off on the 26th this month at 7:30am and I will let you guys now how it goes.
well the warrenty states its 7 years or 100K whichever comes first. So basically what the women told me is if I dont get my 01 lude in the shop some time before the first of the year im fine. but after the first of the year im screwed.
well I got my car back from the honda dealer jsut about an hour ago. and first thing they told me was that my transmission cooler voided my warrenty. so I talked them around that and they told me they didn't find anything wrong with my transmission but told me I needed to have a bunch of other crap replaced that had nothing to do with the transmission.
well I got my car back from the honda dealer jsut about an hour ago. and first thing they told me was that my transmission cooler voided my warrenty. so I talked them around that and they told me they didn't find anything wrong with my transmission but told me I needed to have a bunch of other crap replaced that had nothing to do with the transmission.
98 prelude SS, 72k miles but ive only had it for a month so im not sure if i have the original tranny, no problems so far, but ive got a lifetime powertrain warranty from the dealer, so long as i let them do all of my scheduled maintainance blah blah blah...
AEM cai so far, but after seeing this thread i dont know if i'll upgrade anything else, not sure how touchy this warranty is.
any news on this issue?
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i have a 98 prelude and the tranny is def starting to go, its a salvaged title would the dealer cover it?
There's no way for us to know without just asking the dealer.
To everyone:
Please understand that dealers are all sneaky bastards. Their goal is not to pay for anything they can possibly bullsh*t their way out of. Every dealer I've seen operates this way. There are some rare, rare few that actually care about people, but those are just so unusual nowadays that I assume they don't exist.
What this means is that dealers will use any excuse not to replace your transmission. Labor is expensive, and it costs them lots of money to do it. If you have any mods at all, the chances are really high that the dealer won't help you. This especially includes cars with non-clean Carfax records (1 or more accidents). I would say that only people with a clean history and a basically stock car have any chance of Honda honoring this transmission warranty.
There may be some exceptions, but in general this is reality. The only real way to know is to start calling your local dealers (don't ask here, we can't help you with warranty stuff). It would be wise to talk to all dealers within driving distance, because some may be more reasonable than others.
Also:
Even if you do get your transmission serviced under warranty, it is not fixed. Honda is simply going to replace your failing transmission with an OEM unit. The design flaw that caused your failure is still going to be there. Honda has not actually fixed the design problem. Your replacement transmission will fail in the future. We can't say if it would be sooner or later (some report going 100k+ mi or more). But we do know from the many former members here that there is no permanent fix.
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I've got a 00 that I've had since 01 and havn't had any problems with the SS until now, right after it hit 109k. They said the torque converter was basically melting and cloggin up some filter screens inside the tranny and would need to replace the entire thing for $2,250. I'm not so sure I should fork up the cash, especially since they havn't taken a look. That's just what the comp told them. What do you guys think?
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