Civic EX SE 1.7L VTEC

• Manual transmission
• 29,150 miles

Well well I think Honda needs to stand up for there cars and not admit how badly put together they really are! I loved my car until the night of Aug 16, 2007 when I left work and my car wouldn't shift into 2nd gear at all. Luckily I work at a dealership (not Honda thank god we take care of our customers) I was extremely pissed with this problem considering the car is only 2 yrs old & has less than 30k on it, but I thought oh well at least its under warranty and I'll be able to get it fixed free of charge. HAHAHA well I thought wrong completely wrong! First of all Honda refused to tow my car (it wasn't suggested to be driven because other gears could go or something worse and the closest dealership is 45 mins away) So luckily working at a dealership they towed it out to Don Davis the dealership I purchased the car from. Now this is after calling there service dept and another Honda dealerships service department to be told that if it was rust then they wouldn't cover it under warranty so it sat for the weekend at my work with anti-rust protection on the shifter done by the service adviser at my dealership. This didn't work, so on Tuesday morning my car was towed to Don Davis and they told me after taking apart the transmission that the car was beaten on and would not be covered under warranty! WHAT! Now let me mention I was 20 yrs old when I got this car and I'm a girl and about the only thing I could do to this car is drive it in the country and yea our roads aren't the best but I DID NOT BEAT ON MY CAR! The tires that are on my car are the ones that I bought on that car so Honda is telling me that the tires will with stand this "abuse" that I did to the car but the transmission wont! I also called the Corp Office before even delivering my car because they gave me a hard time from the beginning and they assured me there that it would be taken care of. HAHAHA and I believed them again! So now my car is sitting at Don Davis with the transmission taken apart and not even fixed at all and I owe them over $400 before anything is even repaired! And thats not to mention the towing and the fact that I have no car to drive and Im still paying for it! So Ive seen on here that many people with 03's have had transmission problems but those seemed to be with much greater mileage and automatic transmissions. A standard transmission is suppose to last longer and Honda's are such great cars.... NOT!!!!