Odyssey Transmission

I currently am leasing a 2010 Honday Odyssey. The transmission "slipped" in early February the first time. We were on entrance to a highway when the car "slammed into gear at about 40 mph. The car made a very loud very hard bang... two times. After that it did not happen again until this past week. Again, on entrance to a highway the car slammed into gear after revving at 6, and then began to rev at 60 mph when trying to move around someone on the highway. At that point I removed my foot from the gas pedal and stopped the revving. I was on a highwy with my three small children in the car. The jerking and slamming of the car frightened me enough that I deove it to the dealership. Service was closed and I spoke to a salesmanager and asked them to take a ride to witness the problem. They did not. they said I couldleave the car and rent a car if I was that frightened.  My husband took the kids in his car and I decided to take the car home and arrange for drop off in the morning, so I could go to work. I LEASE A CAR for the reliability. As I was leaving the salesmanger asked me to plese drive carefully. I am sur tht is what the TOYOTA people said too!... The next morning I drove the car to a dealership near my job. There were no instancesof the slip and the banging for themorning ride or since... The dealership informed me that they can charge me a servic fee of 150 dollars if they could not rplicate the problem. RIDICULOUS! Especially for a lesed vehicle. I left. I called my dealer where they were very nice, but said if they could not replicate the problem, althought hey would not charge a fee, there was nothing they could do and informed me that I should take the car to the dealership immediately the next time ithappens... I DID that, bit service was closed... NOW WHAT! I called honda corporate where they logged my complaint and explained the charges as well as the inability to provide a loaner car for a lease. I lease,(rent) a car from Honda. The car does not work properly. I need to rent a car for a rented car? Does a company like Enterprise ask you to rent a car from Hertz if their car breaks down??? NO, they replace it.  This is my third HONDA... and probably my last. The car is 10 months old and is givng me a problem... 10,000 miles. RIDICULOUS.

Contact lemon law as soon as possible. Its free and only hurts Honda Corp. The Odyssey van is the nicest out there but the transmission sucks since the first odyssey ever made so sad.

Welcome, you are the first 2010!  We now have every year from 1999 to 2010.

Sorry to hear about your van...

How do you contact Lemon Law?  Do they have a website?

If I were you, I would also file with lemon law but also take car in every time this happens even if it stops.  This way there is a record of it.

One other thing, if you have a camcorder or camera with video is when this starts happening or you can feel it coming on, start taking video of gauge cluster showing speed and revs and hopefully sound catches the clunking noise.  State which gear car is in when happening.

An autiomatic transmission re-builder I know  told me last week that he is seeing newer and newer vehicles in his shop with a/t problems. 

 Said that in the "old Days" he wouldn't see them until they were 8 to 10 years old, this week he has a GM vehicle in that is only a couple of years old, but 'miled out' of warranty.  The a/t was 'fried' as he called it.

He does a lot of a/t work on Honda Odysseys and puts a 5 year 50,000 mile warranty on his re-builds, but in order for that warranty to be upheld, he requires that  the a/t fluid is changed every year at his shop and the extra magnetic in line filter that he adds is also changed.

Most FWD vehicles now have no oil pan to remove and service the small OEM  fluid filter (sometimes just a screen) inside, so those clutch pack, bearning and gear  wear paticles are circulating around in the case like a grinding  compound.  The result is things get plugged up, start to slip, over heat and then...the tranny is toast.,

People obsess over  motor oil change intervals but the a/t's get ignored and forgotten partly because the manufacturer calls the fluid 'lifetime'.  Re-builders scoff at this and have some very unkind words about the whole a/t service info from the manufacturer.  The more sceptical of them are convinced the new a/t's are 'make work project$' for their dealerships after the warranty is up.  They say if that were not the case, the OEM would make the a/t fluid filter much better, accessable, and call for a fluid change service every 30,000 miles. 

The a/t re-build is a labor intensive job that requires the entire Odyssey front end to be removed before the a/t can even be taken out, then the parts and labor for the autopsy and re-build runs into the thousands of dollars.

Then if your re-build has just one little thing that goes wrong during the complicated process, you are right back on the side of the road again. 

So now, consider the health of your a/t before you  worry about the motor oil...zall I'm sayin'.

Did not see that anyone checked the transmission oil level, follow the book and check it in case you have a leak.

I am the owner of a 2010 Odyssey. My transmission vibrates at 50mph and slips between 5mph and 45mph.  Honda replaced my torque converter, and my problem became worse. I took the vehicle back to dealer and was told they couldn't find any problem. The first time there was a problem, they also said that there was not problem. I was told to just continue driving the van.