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Juice002
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Juice002 asked in Cars & TransportationMaintenance & Repairs · 9 years ago

99 - 2002 Honda Accord: Transmission Questions?

It often hesitates during up shift between 1st and second gears causing a hard shift and then feels like it taking off as it goes into down shift.

Diagnoses tried: Flushing the transmission, has had no effect on the performance.

What can I do to fix the problem, what might be the cause?

Cars have 191,000 miles of operation.

Update:

Thanks Denis, Exactly what I have been during and exactly what I thought would be the problem. Thanks for your help.

Any Ideal what it would cost to have the filter replaced?

Update 2:

Thanks to you Bandit. Sounds reasonable to me, but at the time, that's the advice the mechanic gave: 100 bulks for the flush seems a easy way to rip me off and later claim a more serious problem after that doesn't work but I never went back.

Update 3:

Thanks Roger. Will do.

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  • roger
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    you were lucky to get that far honda had a ton of trouble with automatic transmissions back in those years I know for a fact that some of them even rebuilt came back with flaws so at the mileage your talking you can just take it as easy as possible or not . But you can plan on a rebuild coming in the future. If you want more information try www.carcomplaints.com I know several years had a a lot of complaints in particular for bad transmission.

    you can also go to www.arfc.org/complaints/2001/honda/accord and take a look here there were over 600 complaints for that one year alone so go figure looks like you had a pretty darn good transmission. Lets hope the next one goes even longer best of luck

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    The main issue is that if the solenoids are not the identical and the sensors the plug in connectors would most of the time be different too this is able to make a head soreness job for the mechanic.If he's got the right components now the job should not take too lengthy.The transmission must must relearn and that is why the transmission shop acknowledged it must be pushed awhile. Hope that helps and great of luck.

  • Denis
    9 years ago

    Unfortunately, the automatic transmission in the 99-02 model Accords are sealed units. Chances are your filter is clogged. The good news is a new filter is cheap, but the bad news is you have to remove the transmission from the car and tear into it pretty heavily to replace the filter.

    I have 2 friends with high mileage Accords, and each has the same problem as you. The issue is that fluid can't flow quickly enough to engage the next gear because the filter is clogged.

    What I have them do is to "manually" shift the car through the gears with the shifter, leaving a 1-2 second delay where they do not press the accelerator. This minimizes the damage to the brake bands and clutch packs in the transmission.

  • bandit_60
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    you better watch flushing it ! it might be the transmission filter is clogging up ! flushing a transmission can clog the valve body !

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