Hi
I have Honda Accord 2007 VTec 2.4 Automatic ( UK version ) and think it's fantastic, my car has about 69k miles on the clock so I started to think about how long this car has left before I could expect to see issues with the the transmission and started to do some research and stumbled across something which got me a bit worried, it's more to do with Honda Acura Accords which as I understand are the American counterparts and it mainly effected models produced between 2000 to 2003, where numerous people had their transmissions fail on them while driving at high speed which resulted in them almost being injured or nearly killed, the common scenario would be happly driving along the motorway only for the transmission to fail and find themselves nearly rear ended because of the sudden loss of power as they dropped down suddenly to 30 MPH.
It turns out that there has been constant problems with the Honda Acura Accords transmissions and re-calls on the gearbox to try and resolve it which hasn't prevented the problem from re-surfacing, people have also indicated that the problem still persists now on the 7th Generation models.
My question is really what makes the UK Honda different from the America ones?, and do the UK gearboxes have some kind of safety feature to prevent this dangerous loss of speed from happening or is just one of those things that can't be avoided.
I understand that good servicing etc should mitigate from failure but it can't prevent it, so realistically with the Honda which is Duracell Bunny of cars ( it goes on and on ) it's only a matter of time before this component fails and when it does how much would it cost in the UK on average to replace it?
Reference:
http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=92
I have Honda Accord 2007 VTec 2.4 Automatic ( UK version ) and think it's fantastic, my car has about 69k miles on the clock so I started to think about how long this car has left before I could expect to see issues with the the transmission and started to do some research and stumbled across something which got me a bit worried, it's more to do with Honda Acura Accords which as I understand are the American counterparts and it mainly effected models produced between 2000 to 2003, where numerous people had their transmissions fail on them while driving at high speed which resulted in them almost being injured or nearly killed, the common scenario would be happly driving along the motorway only for the transmission to fail and find themselves nearly rear ended because of the sudden loss of power as they dropped down suddenly to 30 MPH.
It turns out that there has been constant problems with the Honda Acura Accords transmissions and re-calls on the gearbox to try and resolve it which hasn't prevented the problem from re-surfacing, people have also indicated that the problem still persists now on the 7th Generation models.
My question is really what makes the UK Honda different from the America ones?, and do the UK gearboxes have some kind of safety feature to prevent this dangerous loss of speed from happening or is just one of those things that can't be avoided.
I understand that good servicing etc should mitigate from failure but it can't prevent it, so realistically with the Honda which is Duracell Bunny of cars ( it goes on and on ) it's only a matter of time before this component fails and when it does how much would it cost in the UK on average to replace it?
Reference:
http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=92
