MY02 Pops Out of 4th Gear
09-04-2003, 02:42 PM
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MY02 Pops Out of 4th Gear
9/01/03
This problem has been driving me nuts. I have my MY02 into Auto West Honda in Roseville on 2 or 3 occasions to have them look at this. It is totally random and happens in my case from 43-65 MPH always in 4th gear. This never happens under load (sharp acceleration of deceleration) but always when just maintaining speed. THIS HAS HAPPENED TO ME IN EXCESS OF 75 TIMES IN LESS THAN 15K miles (really over 100 since I only started keeping track after my first service department visit). Each visit to the dealership I take the guys for a ride to see if I can duplicate it (of course not!!!). When I was there last I was just under 40 occurances and I was beginning to get irritated that they would not believe ME THE CUSTOMER that it was happening. Hey, they changed the tranny oil and asked if I shifted funny. This happens to EVERYONE who drives my car.
I just finished a letter I am going to carry into the service department early next week. This has been seen by over 5 other MY02 drivers and has been fixed by TSB 01-100 (a MY01 TSB applied to a MY02). I will print out these posts and attach them to my original correspondence from earlier in the year.
There are LOTS of posts with MY01's but here are some on '02's:
https://www.s2ki.com/forums/showthread.php?...&threadid=59071
https://www.s2ki.com/forums/showthread.php?...?threadid=39245 (robbase)
https://www.s2ki.com/forums/showthread.php?...p?threadid=3118 (various)
https://www.s2ki.com/forums/showthread.php?...?threadid=81580 (TIMBER got it FIXED!)
https://www.s2ki.com/forums/showthread.php?...?threadid=83344
UPDATE 9/4/03
Went into Autowest Honda Service today and had a great discussion with the service rep and the head mechanic. I gave them all the documentation and insisted that they needed to fix it. They still wanted to duplicate the problem but with all the documentation I had given them (each occurance, mileage, speed, road conditions) I told them that we needed to move forward. The head mechanic said he did not have the authority to just open transmissions at will. He suggested that he would call tech support and get back to me tomorrow....
Well, they just called. It appears that the TSB I mentioned does not apply to my car but they are aware of the problem. THEY ARE REPLACING MY ENTIRE TRANSMISSION NEXT WEEK!! The nightmare nuisance appears to be about over.
I will post an update when this is all done. Yippeeeeeeee!!!
This problem has been driving me nuts. I have my MY02 into Auto West Honda in Roseville on 2 or 3 occasions to have them look at this. It is totally random and happens in my case from 43-65 MPH always in 4th gear. This never happens under load (sharp acceleration of deceleration) but always when just maintaining speed. THIS HAS HAPPENED TO ME IN EXCESS OF 75 TIMES IN LESS THAN 15K miles (really over 100 since I only started keeping track after my first service department visit). Each visit to the dealership I take the guys for a ride to see if I can duplicate it (of course not!!!). When I was there last I was just under 40 occurances and I was beginning to get irritated that they would not believe ME THE CUSTOMER that it was happening. Hey, they changed the tranny oil and asked if I shifted funny. This happens to EVERYONE who drives my car.
I just finished a letter I am going to carry into the service department early next week. This has been seen by over 5 other MY02 drivers and has been fixed by TSB 01-100 (a MY01 TSB applied to a MY02). I will print out these posts and attach them to my original correspondence from earlier in the year.
There are LOTS of posts with MY01's but here are some on '02's:
https://www.s2ki.com/forums/showthread.php?...&threadid=59071
https://www.s2ki.com/forums/showthread.php?...?threadid=39245 (robbase)
https://www.s2ki.com/forums/showthread.php?...p?threadid=3118 (various)
https://www.s2ki.com/forums/showthread.php?...?threadid=81580 (TIMBER got it FIXED!)
https://www.s2ki.com/forums/showthread.php?...?threadid=83344
UPDATE 9/4/03
Went into Autowest Honda Service today and had a great discussion with the service rep and the head mechanic. I gave them all the documentation and insisted that they needed to fix it. They still wanted to duplicate the problem but with all the documentation I had given them (each occurance, mileage, speed, road conditions) I told them that we needed to move forward. The head mechanic said he did not have the authority to just open transmissions at will. He suggested that he would call tech support and get back to me tomorrow....
Well, they just called. It appears that the TSB I mentioned does not apply to my car but they are aware of the problem. THEY ARE REPLACING MY ENTIRE TRANSMISSION NEXT WEEK!! The nightmare nuisance appears to be about over.
I will post an update when this is all done. Yippeeeeeeee!!!
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