Odyssey Transmission

My Honda Odyssey 2003 Transmission finally gave out this columbus day weekend. Its been bad for about 3 years now and I figured I'ld run it till it died. Back at about 60K I took it to the dealer and they said the recall had been applied by the previous owner (I'm suspiscious). I asked for the name of the dealer where this took place and it mystiriously closed so no information was available. No fix was offered to me at that time.

Now at about 90K the transmission failed. I went back to the dealer and was happy to hear the service managers' kind words "Honday may cover the parts at 100% but you will pay for labor". Well that sounded great but the next day he said that Honda would only cover 50% of parts leaving me stuck w/ the rest of the bill. (very dissapointed). I would pay in excess of $3,000 wich included a new designed trans along with computer. So its obvious that thier initial design had problems.

I've read alot of familiar things on line. I wrote letters, made calls and ultimately was just making myself frustrated w/ this as all I got was the run around from Honda USA.

I think that w/ as much revenue Honda makes that this error should be covered by Honda 100%. It will be a sad day when someone gets hurt or dies due to this bad design.

Ive owned 5 Honda's in my lifetime. But because of this injustice I will spread the word and I'm going with Toyota from now on.

Interesting they told me the same thing about the recall work.  They said the previous owner had the recall done, but they did not know where or who.  The previous owner was from a small town in Oklahoma.  I called the dealership in that town (which is where they bought it), and they said they never did any service on it.

I think they are a bunch of liars...  I hear ya, Toyotas for me too.  All my family and my in laws used to buy Honda's after this everyone is buying Toyota's.

There is a lawyer in NY taking names for a second class action lawsuit for 2002+ mini vans.  Make sure you call them.  Supposedly once they have enough people they are going to start a class action lawsuit.  The AutomobileMag forum (see link on the left) has the phone number...