I drive a 2002 Honda civic EX with the 1.7L V-TEC engine. I purchased this car with 50,000 miles on it thinking that Honda was a good choice. It wasn't. They are full of it. I had to have the transmission over-hauled with only 78,000 miles on it!! This is reliable? It's crap. Im a graduate student and this is a lot of money to me, especially to repair the so called reliable Honda. By the way, the motor had to be replaced at 60,000 miles. What is up with Honda??????? I also own a 1986 toyota corolla, perfect, never had a problem....ever, since I was 16. Anyways don't buy a damn Honda, go for toyota I say

This car was given as a gift to my daughter by an aunt as a graduation gift. She has had the car for 1 month. She was traveling back to school recently, 2.5 hrs into a 5 hr trip. She stopped briefly to see a friend. When she restarted the car and began moving into traffic the gears began to slip. and finally gave completely away. Had to get the car towed to a dealership at night. She is trapped in a city she doesn't know. We are trying to take care of the repair by phone, 2.5 hrs away. This is going to run in the neighborhood of $2500 to repair with a used transmission. So much for Honda quality. I have seen enough on the internet to know this is a pervasive problem on this model.

This is my daughter's car. She noticed the rpm's went up to the number 3, stayed there for a few seconds while only driving 25 miles per hour. She didn't think it sounded right. Parked her car - and didn't drive it until I picked up her car. While her stepfather was driving it to a transmission place (with me following behind him), he pulled in to get some gas. At that point, the car's transmission totally went out. We towed it to the transmission shop where we got the car 2 days later and were out over $2000. Asked the mechanic why her transmission went out because she is not a hard driver (she's more like a little old lady). Were told that these cars had problems with their transmission, so I decided to see what I could find out. Too bad Honda's not doing anything about it. Unfortunately, I also bought my son his car - a 2001 Honda Civic. From the list on the 2001, it's just a matter of time before I'll be paying for another transmission.

We bought this 2002 Honda Civic LX, 4 door from CarMax after looking for a very long time in the private sector. We found lots of junk in the private sector and thought we would pay more, like $2000 more because of CarMax reputation of taking the cream of the crop trade in's and checking the cars out. We only had the car 45 days and put on 500 miles when the transmission left me stranded on a country road. We didn't get the CarMax warranty, why should we? We've owned Honda's for over 20 years and never had a problem.

We got the car towed to the Auburn Honda Dealership and they confirmed the transmission failed. We were so discussed. I asked the Honda Service Assistant what he or Honda could do for us. He contacted the Honda Rep and they agreed to pay for 75% of the $3,500 estimate to replace! We were very pleased, but then I decided to check the internet for any Honda Civic Transmission problems, and I found this site. After we paid Honda and was surprise the bill was only $680 we sent the invoice to CarMax along with our $70 towing bill. CarMax agreed to pay 50% which left us with a total bill of $375. We were very pleased by both businesses and so glad we just kept asking for help. We do feel it is a blessing from the Lord and give him the glory!

Bought a 2002 Honda Civic Ex Coupe about 6 months ago from a used car dealer. The car came with a crystal clear carfax report and only had 55,000 miles, so I thought it was a perfect deal. A great car with low miles that would run forever. Boy was I wrong!!! At only 63,000 miles the transmission failed and required replacement. I wasted an hour on the phone with Honda Corporate and got nowhere. Since I bought the car used and don't have complete service records, they will do nothing to stand by there product. I got them to admit they have a major issue with the '01-'04 model Honda transmissions, as has been stated in their service bulletins, but they refuse to stand by there product and make good what their customers have paid for and assumed would last awhile...at least past 63,000 miles, at least. There are tons of cars on the market right now that have standard warranties that last much longer then 63,000 miles. Needless to say, unless something major happens I will never own another Honda and definitely would never recommend one!!!

i bought the car used with for a great price since it was a Honda i didn't even checked it and it is my first,but after 6 months of usage i started to find out that it was build worse than Chinese cars,my list started with power steering which is hard to turn then power steering fluid leakage then weak alternator which need to be replaced then the drum and shock absorber and my story with the tranny that it started to burn fluid fast around 4000km first then 500km after 2 months then after they gear started to slip while shifting or take to much shift after few days the car wouldn't shift at all and my tranny got burned but lucky for me i can fix it for 800$,but after am gonna fix it i will sell and buy an older Honda or even a kia @ least Kia tranny only costs 200$

the 2001-2005 civic =good engine in a sh*tty car!

One day on my way home from work my transmission started slipping from 2nd to 3rd gear. So the next day I went to take it to the mechanic and on the way it started again but it got progressively worse. It began to have slipping problems in every gear and eventually it just revved in every gear and all I had was neutral. Luckily, I was able to make it crawl out of traffic and into a AAA parking lot. I had it towed to a transmission place over the weekend, and on Monday they called me at work and said it was the transmission, along with the torque converter, solenoid, and cooler. They quoted me $1900 dollars. I had then found out about American Honda and called them to first see if there was a recall on my vin number about this transmission issue which they are aware about, but act like they're not. They told me I first had to take it to a Honda dealership to diagnose what I already found out. So when I told the transmission place I went to that I was gonna have it towed to the dealership, they then told me that I would have to pay $592.00 for labor! I only asked them to do a diagnosis to tell me if it was the transmission or not, and apparently they took the transmission out along with other parts, so I was very mad with them for not contacting me and letting me know they would be taking anything out. So instead of me paying for labor there and then towing it to a dealer and having them diagnose it, then calling American Honda and not knowing how much help they would give me with this matter, I just figured I would be better off just paying the $1900, other places had quoted me $3000 to fix these parts, so I kinda came off alright. I thought Hondas were very reliable! I guess those were the earlier 90's Hondas. This is the first and last time I will buy a Honda!

Full Transmission failure, among other problems. This is the worst car I have ever owned. After leaving my college on a cold night and the transmission began to slip. I pulled to the next light and the car does not move at all. I heard a high pitch noise coming from the engine bay which tells me the torque converter went along with the clutches. I took it to the Honda dealer because the recommended interval trans. fluid change is is 120k.. I talked to the dealer and had the car fixed (3,000) total investment into the car after purchase 6,000. After talking to Honda I was told they will not take any responsibility for the complete failure. This car is a piece of junk. I will never purchase a Honda again.

I was so confused when my Honda Civic started making a strange noise, and then completely stopped running and my husband and I ended up pushing it down the street! It only has 43,000 miles on it, and is not even 6 years old. I got it towed to a transmission specialist and was advised that I needed a completely new transmission and it would cost $2,500! I was just about ready to pay the amount when my husband found this website. Based on what we read from all the other transmission problems, we knew that there was something faulty about the original transmission. We called the dealership where the car was purchased, and they agreed to look at it and possibly cover some of the cost. After evaluation my car, the Honda dealership covered all the costs, including labor and even agreed to reimburse us for the towing cost. If it wasn't for this website I would've spent $2,500 for a problem that I thought I had somhow caused! Thank you everyone so much for your input!

I am extremely dissatisfied with Honda. At only 90,353 miles I found myself having to spend almost $3000.00 to rebuild and fix my transmission. I had no warning signs except to one day prior to my break down. I bought a Honda because they are said they will last you forever. I had my car serviced every 3,000 miles and I did not abuse it or drag race or anything of that nature. I have called Honda and filed a complaint and have asked them to pay for the damages to my car. I will never buy nor recommend a Honda to anyone because of my problems. I have also heard numerous people tell me about their 02 Honda Civic transmission problem. I think there is a problem with that year and model car. Honda should reimburse us all for our troubles.

Bought the car used, from a very reliable party on November 13, 2007. Put the car in our garage until Saturday, 11/17, when we gave it to our son for his birthday. When he drove to our house on Thanksgiving, 11/22, the car died and would not shift. The car revved up, but it was like in neutral. My husband had to go pick up my son--the transmission had failed. We were unable to contact anyone over the holiday weekend, but did find this site which was VERY HELPFUL. After reading the complaints here and in the 2001 section I thought I knew what to do. I called American Honda at the 800 number, told them what happened and that we had all the service records - including the most recent one, which was a major service at 103,000. I also told them I had the Honda Service bulletin which stated that '01-'04 civics were apt to have transmission failure. I spoke to a very helpful woman at American Honda who told me that some Civics had their warranties extended to 109,000 or 7 years 9 months, but that it was VIN specific. She checked my VIN number, and naturally my VIN was not covered. However, she said American Honda might still help out. Yesterday, I had the car towed to a local dealership for the diagnosis, which must be done at a Honda dealership. Today, I found out, as suspected, that it's transmission failure (not a surprise) AND the cost to repair would be $3450. The good news - American Honda will pay $2500--the cost of the parts; we have to pay for the labor, $950. We also paid $63 to have it towed to the dealership. Final cost to us is $1013. It's a lot of money, but I am happy that Am Honda is picking up the bulk of the cost. I was concerned that it would take a long time to get an answer from Am. Honda, so am glad to report that the turn around time was only 1 day! I wasn't told much, but the service guy told me that having the transmission flushed at 103,000 was a big factor in Honda agreeing to pay. It's part of the major service. So, it was totally worth calling around, checking out this site and finding out what to do. Oh, did I mention that the new transmission comes with a 3 year or 36,000 mile warranty?! Thank you carcomplaints.com and all the people that wrote in with what happened to them and what they did!

purchased car new in 2002.Had all recommended services done since owning car.Recently,have to replace transmission after 90,000 miles. Why was there no warning about this problem since i spent over 6,000 dollars the last 5 years on preventive services as per Honda dealer.This should have been detected months ago.Had nothing but problems with this car since year one.Had a 1995 Honda ,and it was the best car i ever had. It had over 100.000 miles and ran like new. What has happen to Honda. This is not the same car it used to be. I will be contacting the local news stations as well as newspapers about this and other problems.People need to know the facts before buying Hondas.

I have owned my 2002 Honda Civic for almost 3 years. I bought it used, with 44,000 miles on it, from a Honda dealership with an extended warranty. After having other problems with the car, and nothing being covered by the "bumper to bumper" warranty, I canceled the warranty. About a month ago, the transmission started slipping. Within 2 days, the car would not even go forward. We took it to a local transmission place to have it looked at, and we called American Honda in the meantime. They explained that we had to take it to a dealer to be considered for help with the costs, so we had it towed again to the dealer. The dealership reported that the transmission fluid was overdue to be changed. This is not true, because the scheduled time to change it was 90,000 miles. We were hoping for this to "fix" our problem, but were not convinced. Now, one month later our car has complete transmission failure. We are waiting to hear back from American Honda, and we are hoping that more people would report if this has happened to them. There are so many 2001 transmission complaints, and this probably helps when trying to get Honda to help pay for this cost... we would love to hear more stories from 2002 Civic transmissions if people are out there. My husband and I are both college students, and we were expecting this Honda to be the reliable car! Since our 92' Lexus is proving to outperform our fairly-new Honda we know where we will buy our next car from.

I have a 2002 honda civic ex with 102,000 miles on it. The transmission went bad in it and it would not engage in gear once the car was hot. I had the transmission rebuilt two weeks ago and it is driving terribly. The transmission is slipping, when going from 1st gear to 2nd gear the rpm's redline and then it goes into second gear. I have brought it back several times and they most recently installed a new linaer valve (Solenoid). That was today and it drove alright for three miles and then the problems started to surface again. It starts off slow then it gets progressively worse. The transmission rpm's shoot up and there is a vibration on the floor especially when corning while accelerating. I paid $2,430 for this car to be repaired and it seems like I'm getting screwed over. When I bring the car back to be repaired I'm met with hostility by the owner.