8.9
pretty badTypical Repair Cost:
$2,580.00
Average Mileage:
93,633 miles
Total Complaints:
7 complaints
Most common solutions:
- not sure (4 reports)
- rebuilt transmission (2 reports)
- replace bushings (1 reports)
transmission problem
This problem may be covered under warranty. Ask your Honda dealer.
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2002May 02
Civic LX 1.7L Sohc
- Manual transmission
- 110,000 miles
The service department told my wife we weren't the only ones with this problem and he thought they may come out with a recall.
2008Dec 05
Civic EX
- Manual transmission
- 109,995 miles
WOW! what a nightmare we are all sharing. I've dumped $6K into my 2001 Civic EX bought in Oct. '02 in the last 18 months alone. First the catalytic converter crapped out (twice!) and they found a problem with the struts. That was Sept. '03 (at the very beginning of a new job after being out for 2 yrs, thank you very much!) and THEN, just last Friday, I noticed it felt like I was pushing the shift thru sand to get it into 4th gear, so I brought it to the mechanic.Guess I'm luckier than most.... My baby didn't dump me.
First he tells me it's the clutch (I'm a bit offended - hey, I am a GOOD clutcher!!), but ok. replace it - these things wear out. So, he replaces that (and in the process finds my ENGINE MOUNTING was bad) and $1500 later, off I go. I'm driving it home, and the car is driving WORSE than when I brought it in. Now I can't even FIND second and it's a 50/50 shot if I can find 4th. So, I bring it back and after a day of diagnosing, they tell me (with heads cowering), it's the transmission. YOU HAVE GOT TO KIDDING ME!? THIS IS A HONDA!? Something about the linkage, he tells me. DAMN! So, $1600 for a 65K miles tranny (I'm told I was lucky we could find an EX). And my mechanic is so AWESOME, he's not charging me to break it down a second time, since they already did it when they replaced the clutch (nice guys!). I've had to spend money to rent a car because I just COULDN'T ask my friends to chauffeur me around any more while this beast was getting repaired. Ahhh, tis the season for credit card debt, I guess.
This was an EXPENSIVE car for me to buy at the time I did, but I figured it was a Honda and would last me forever (or at least until I got sick of it), but at LEAST until it was paid off. Well, it barely did that! This was the WORST possible time for me to need car repairs... there are talks of layoff's since I'm affiliated with a State-funded agency and the governor is cutting the budget. It's scary times. I was lucky my repair shop had credit to offer (and it was JUST enough to do the job). Maybe a new incentive to go American...
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2007Jan 01
Civic LX 1.8L
- Manual transmission
- 80,000 miles
My husband I bought a 2001 civic in 2007. Soon after the gear would pop out of 2nd. From asking around, it seemed to be less expensive to replace the transmission with a used one then to repair it. I wish we didn't put out cash into this piece of crap and bought an automatic instead!
2008Apr 21
Civic LX 1.7L
- Automatic transmission
- 102,790 miles
Well I guess I get to join the Honda hate club. My tranny just went out while driving through town thank god I was at a red light when it happened otherwise who know what might have happened. I'm hopping a family friend can get this fixed but after all the post I read I think I'm screw I hope I can get some info on what will be the best to do through those that already fixed this problem.
2008Feb 13
Civic EX
- Manual transmission
- 127,000 miles
Thought Hondas' were the best thing there was for the money. Still do i guess. Just bought the car and was told that the gears were slippin. Being mechanically savvy i thought that i could take care of it. It however increased in occurrence and then now is a literal pain in the ass. I love my car, spent a lot of money on it. Now i just need it to be great again.
2008Jan 17
Civic LX 1.7L
- Manual transmission
- 74,646 miles
For two years, I'd been putting up with the gearshifter popping out of 2nd gear on occasion (especially when I'm turning right and engaging the gear at the same time). Over time, it got more frequent, and I finally decided to bite the bullet and have the transmission looked at by a mechanic. Turns out the synchros were shot, and the transmission needed a rebuild (or, I could have opted to replace the transmission for another few hundred bucks).
Mind you, the car was still fully operational, but I felt that there was just something inherently wrong about having to shift from 1st straight into 3rd when accelerating onto the freeway, if I didn't want to risk losing my acceleration when 2nd gear popped.
I also found out that Honda released a TSB regarding manual transmissions of their 2001 civic lineup - that corrosion of the shift cable may cause popping out of 2nd or 5th gear, and/or other shifting problems. But according to the people at American Honda, my VIN wasn't included in the batch of cars to which the TSB applied. (Likely story...) But in any case, this still didn't make me feel any more confident about the quality of parts that were used in 2001 civic transmissions.
After finding this site, I'm just sickened that a company like Honda, with its reputation for reliability, would have bungled it up so badly with its 2001 civic transmissions. And I'm also a bit suspicious as all these transmission-failure reports on this site come at a time when the car is (a) out of the standard warranty period, and (b) at less than half the mileage of when you'd expect a transmission to break down. Did they just build these cars on the cheap, or what? Here's hoping that they had these issues figured out and solved by the time the 2002 model year came out.
Moral of the story: don't buy the first year of a new body style.
Or better yet: don't buy Honda.
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2009Sep 11
Civic HX 1.7L V4
I bought the 2001 Honda Civic as a cheap reliable car to help me travel 350 miles from home to school whenever the holidays or breaks would occur. Unfortunately, that is where I failed in my decision, believing Honda Civics was the SOLUTION!!! I now own a car that has already forced me out of the road once and may screw me over the coming months, I just don't know when. The transmission is seemingly destined for failure as fellow owners of this Honda all seem to have the same terrible end. What must we do for a class action suit, cause I'm so IN!!! Please do not stop communicating we need to move on this. Anyone feel similarly, please e-mail me at rocketboyssk@gmail.com.
nndhawan
Plantation, FL, USA
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