redmondjp said:
So even with an added oil cooler and fluid filter, your replacement transmission only made it to 60K miles . . . I really, really want to believe that adding a cooler and filter will help it to last longer, but so far I'm not convinced based upon what I have been reading here for the past couple of years.
I’ve had a transmission cooler on mine since early on in it’s first year of life because of reading how many failures have occurred and it may have helped it get to the 135k I have now before officially setting off the P0740 transmission code. But, the fluid on mine at 30k miles was awful and mine has a miserable whine since the first year, obviously there was some failure very early on. I read elsewhere (I can’t find it right now) from a transmission builder (might have been Jasper?) that even with Honda’s optional auxiliary cooler the transmission suffers from overheating. So when I picked a cooler I wanted one better than the lame little loop Honda calls a “towing” cooler (WHAT A JOKE). A couple days ago while discussing my transmission troubles with the general manager of my local dealer he tries to find anything he can to push blame off on me for Honda’s badly engineered transmission and tries to make issue my trans cooler is after market, and that since I do my own fluid changes, am I an ASE certified mechanic. All lame BS, I do 3x fluid changes, most dealers do 1x. I follow factory service manual procedures and explained since I changed my own timing belt, water pump, all tensioners and other related components, I think perhaps I could handle fluid changes. These people will scratch and claw for any reason to divert attention away from the real issue we were sold a bad product they are trying to stick us with and not fix. Not what I would expect for my vehicle that had a $28,800 MSRP. They have stone walled people for 7 years now, I figure each year that goes by they get closer to paying nothing so if anything happens it has the be NOW, they are too close to the time period where even if they did recall there would be few eligible unless they get forced to reimburse those who have already paid for repairs.
BTW…I’ve worked every system and component on bulldozers, tractors, dump trucks, motorhomes, all my own cars, my drag race cars, road racing Karts, worked on stock car’s at Daytona, I’ve raced at Daytona and every other major track like Charlotte, Watkins Glenn, Road America and every other notable road course, built my own racing engines, worked at a racing engine machine shop in the winters and did auto repair for friends many years when down time due to bad weather from my regular job permitted which included transmission and engine swaps. I don’t think there even was an ASE that many years ago. I did all the fluid changes on my friends ARCA car at Daytona, I was entrusted to change the oil on the $30,000 engine as well as transmission and differential fluid between qualifying and the race. I don’t remember seeing any ASE patches in the Daytona garages the years I was there.