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CarComplaints.com Notes: Yes, the Honda Civic receives a lot of complaints because so many were sold. And sure, car parts only last so long and things eventually break. But it's never good to see this many transmission complaints, especially when the average mileage at failure is just north of 100,000 miles.
Especially when you consider that it's predecessor also has a nasty history with transmission complaints.
7.7
pretty bad- Typical Repair Cost:
- $1,940
- Average Mileage:
- 103,000 miles
- Total Complaints:
- 60 complaints
Most Common Solutions:
- Replace transmission (32 reports)
- not sure (21 reports)
- warranty must be increase by honda from 100000 to 160000 (5 reports)
- purchase extended warranty (1 reports)
- solenoid was sticking. cleaned solenoid and works great now (1 reports)
transmission problem
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A D V E R T I S E M E N T S
Original owner with 64K miles. At 30K miles a (not dealership) oil change with free inspection notified me that the tranny fluid was dark- I thought yeah right, just trying to sell me a flush.
At 50K the shifting started taking longer so I finally had the tranny fluid flushed. It did not help but it stopped from getting worse for a while.
It is getting worse again so I called Honda Customer Service at (800) 999-1009 and asked for a "goodwill repair" after reading http://www.hondaproblems.com/Civic/transmission-failure.shtml. Honda said take it to a dealer to have it diagnosed so they know what the problem is and call back, which I did today. The dealer (Norm Reeves HB) said it needs a new transmission but had no details because "Honda will want the untouched transmission if they do a goodwill repair." I'll update when I hear what they are offering.
I have not had I single problem in the 8 years owning this car or the 2 years I owned my other Civic but a new tranny is way expensive and the car only has 64K (maybe I should've gotten the extended warranty)
Update from Nov 19, 2009: The car shifts correctly now :) Norm Reeves Honda contacted corp. and got 100% goodwill discount, all I paid for was labor and fluid, about $600. A few hours after I talked to the dealership and agreed to the deal, some guy from Honda corp. called me with a load about this Not being a widespread problem and offering less of a comp. I am very happy and even have a 3 year warrenty on it!
- carlcom, Westminster, CA, US