2002 HONDA ACCORD Complaints

I OWN A 2002 HONDA ACCORD. AS WITH OTHER HONDA OWNERS THERE HAVE BEEN TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS. HONDA SETTLED A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT FOR THEIR PROBLEM TRANSMISSION VEHICLES UP TO 2001. THIS PROBLEM CARRIES OVER INTO THEIR LATER MODELS. MY PROBLEM AS WELL WITH MANY OTHERS IS THAT IT SLIPS BETWEEN SHIFTING GEARS. I HAVE TAKEN INTO NUMEROUS DEALERS AND TRANSMISSION SHOPS WITH NO ONE ABLE TO HELP. HONDA AMERICA DOES NOT OFFER ANY HELP WITH THIS SITUATION. OTHER THAN REPLACING THE ENTIRE TRANSMISSION. THIS WEBSITE IS ONE OF MANY THAT HAS THE SAME COMPLAINT AS MYSELF. HTTP://WWW.HONDAPROBLEMS.COM/ACCORD/TRANSMISSION-FAILURE.SHTML CAN YOU PLEASE HELP US IN FORCING HONDA TO ISSUE A RECALL ON THEIR DEFECTIVE TRANSMISSIONS. *TR

TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2002 HONDA ACCORD. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE TRANSMISSION WAS RELUCTANT TO SHIFT OUT OF THE GEAR. WHENEVER HE SHIFTED INTO FOURTH GEAR IT FAILED TO DOWN SHIFT AND REMAINED IN FOURTH GEAR. THE FAILURE HAS OCCURRED AT VARIOUS SPEEDS. THE HONDA DEALER ADVISED THE CONTACT THAT THE FAILURE WAS CAUSED BY A FAULTY TRANSMISSION AND NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE TRANSMISSION WAS REPLACED AT THE OWNERS EXPENSE FOR $2100. THE MANUFACTURER CONFIRMED THAT THERE WERE NO RECALLS, WARRANTIES OR REIMBURSEMENT REGARDING THE FAILURE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 85,000.

I PURCHASED A 2002 HONDA ACCORD COUPE BRAND NEW IN 2002. ALMOST IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE PURCHASE THE SRS INDICATOR LIGHT BEGAN TO INDICATE A PROBLEM WITH THE AIRBAG AND RESTRAINT SYSTEM. THE INDICATOR LIGHT ILLUMINATED INTERMITTENTLY AT FIRST BUT FINALLY REMAINED ON CONSTANTLY. I MADE THE DEALERSHIP AWARE OF THIS AND THEY REFUSED TO ACKNOWLEDGE A MANUFACTURER PROBLEM AND I HAD TO PAY FOR REPAIRS IN ORDER TO PASS INSPECTION. IN THE SPRING OF 2006 HONDA FINALLY ACKNOWLEDGE A PROBLEM AND SENT NOTIFICATION TO OWNERS. I WAS REIMBURSED FOR THE MONEY I HAD PAID FOR REPAIRS. GIVEN THE PROBLEMS THAT HAD BEEN REPORTED THEY EXTENDED THE WARRANTY ON THIS PART FOR ALL OWNERS. UNFORTUNATELY, A MALFUNCTION OF THE SRS HAPPENED AGAIN IN 2006. AGAIN I HAD TO PAY OUT OF POCKET FOR REPAIRS. AGAIN I SUBMITTED THE INFORMATION TO HONDA AND WAS REIMBURSED. FINALLY, IN 2009 ANOTHER PROBLEM WITH THE SRS WAS DISCOVERED. I ASSUMED ALL WOULD BE AS BEFORE AND THAT I COULD SUBMIT A CLAIM AND BE REIMBURSED. HONDA DID PAY TO HAVE THE PROBLEM EVALUATED, BUT THIS TIME HONDA REFUSED TO ACKNOWLEDGE A PROBLEM AND DENIED THE CLAIM FOR REIMBURSEMENT. I HAVE BEEN IN TALKS WITH HONDA OVER THIS ISSUE SINCE FEBRUARY 2009. I HAVE APPEALED THEIR DENIAL AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE IT'S OBVIOUS THIS PART WAS DEFECTIVE FROM THE BEGINNING. NOW, A RECALL OF HONDAS INVOLVING THE SRS SYSTEM IS UNDER WAY, BUT AGAIN MY CLAIM IS BEING DENIED. I AM BEING TOLD THAT THE PART IN QUESTION IS NOT DEFECTIVE. HOWEVER, I THINK IT'S OBVIOUS THAT SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THE ENTIRE SRS SYSTEM IN THIS MODEL YEAR HONDA AND THEY SHOULD ACKNOWLEDGE THIS. HONDA WAS LATE IN ACKNOWLEDGING A PROBLEM FROM THE BEGINNING AND IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THIS IS MORE OF THEM TAKING NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR ERROR. I DO HOPE OTHER OWNERS HAVE COME FORWARD AS I AM TO MAKE HONDA TAKE RESPONSIBILITY AND TO REIMBURSE OWNERS FOR THE EXPENSES THEY HAVE INCURRED FOR HONDA'S DEFECTIVE PART. *TR

THE TRANSMISSION IN MY 2002 HONDA ACCORD IS COMPLETELY BUSTED. I BOUGHT IT USED IN 2005 AND DIDN'T HAVE ANY PROBLEMS UP UNTIL 2009. RECENTLY I'VE READ THAT HONDA ISSUED AN EXTENSION ON THE TRANSMISSIONS UP TO 7YRS 60,000 MILES. HOWEVER WHEN I BOUGHT THE CAR, I HAD NO IDEA THAT HAD BEEN IMPLEMENTED. NOT A PEEP. MY CAR HAS JUST OVER 61,000 AND JUST OVER 7YRS OLD. JUST OUT OF WARRANTY. NOW, I'VE HAD SEVERAL ESTIMATES ON A NEW TRANSMISSION RANGING ABOUT 3200-3600 DOLLARS. I FEEL HONDA SHOULD REPLACE IT OR AT LEAST HELP WITH SOME OF THE COST AND, MORE IMPORTANTLY, I FEEL COMPELLED TO FILE A COMPLAINT BECAUSE MY WIFE WAS DRIVING THE CAR AT THE TIME THE TRANSMISSION BROKE. SHE WAS ON THE ROAD AND COULD HAVE BEEN HIT BY SOMEONE IF SHE WAS ON THE INTERSTATE OR IN THE MIDDLE OF A INTERSECTION OR SOMEONE ELSE JUST NOT PAYING ATTENTION BECAUSE THE CAR DOESN'T GO FASTER THEN 20 MPH. THANK GOD NOTHING LIKE THAT HAPPENED, BUT I'VE READ STORIES ONLINE FROM PEOPLE WITH THE SAME PROBLEM. HUNDREDS OF THEM. I SAW ON THE NEWS ABOUT HONDA AND THE AIRBAG RECALLS AND IF I DO GET A LETTER FROM HONDA TO REPLACE THAT, I WONT BE ABLE TO GET MY CAR TO THE DEALERSHIP TO GET IT FIXED BECAUSE MY TRANSMISSION IS TRASH! ALREADY! I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO NOW, SO THANK YOU WHOEVER IS THE LUCKY PERSON TO READ THIS. I HOPE I CAN GET THIS RESOLVED. *TR

MY 2002 HONDA ACCORD DEVELOPED A TRANSMISSION PROBLEM AT 45,000 MILES. AFTER CONTACTING HONDA AND BEING TOLD THAT MY VIN NUMBER WAS NOT AFFECTED I REVIEWED THE COMPLAINTS SECTION ON THE INTERNET AND REALIZED THAT 90% OF THE 2002 PROBLEMS LISTED WERE RELATED TO TRANSMISSION FAILURES AND EVEN AFTER MANY PEOPLE PAID TO HAVE THEIR TRANSMISSION REPLACED THE PROBLEM RE-OCCURRED AFTER 30K MILES IN SOME CASES. THE AVERAGE COST OF REPAIR FOR THIS IS $3500 AND IT IS OBVIOUS IT IS A FACTORY DEFECT BY THE HUGE PERCENTAGE OF TRANSMISSION'S. I HAVE TRADED IN MY ACCORD BUT REQUEST THAT THE GOVERNMENT PLEASE INVESTIGATE THIS ISSUE IN DETAIL AND HELP THE MANY UNKNOWING CONSUMERS OUT THERE BEFORE SOMEONE GETS INJURED OR KILLED, AS IF SPENDING $3500 TO FIX AN OBVIOUS DESIGN DEFECT ISN'T BAD ENOUGH. AND EVEN AFTER SPENDING THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY TO GET IT FIXED IT STILL RE-OCCURS. THIS SHOULD BE A DEFINITE RECALL ITEM. *TR

2002 HONDA ACCORD TRANSMISSION CLUTCH, MANY ACCORD AND CIVIC MODELS AND YEARS OF HONDA WERE RECALLED FOR REPAIRS BUT THE RECALL DOES NOT INCLUDE THIS YEAR OR MODEL ACCORD. THE PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED ARE EXACTLY THE SAME AS THOSE REPORTED IN THE RECALLED HONDAS. HONDA IS SAVING MONEY BY TRYING TO LIMIT ITS RECALLS AND REPAIR OBLIGATIONS. HONDA CAREFULLY LIMITED ITS RECALL DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE COMPANY ACKNOWLEDGES THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH THEIR TRANSMISSIONS AND THE COMPLETE FAILURE OF THE CARS DUE TO THESE DEFECTS. *TR

IT SEEMS AS IF THE AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION IS SLIPPING. IT OCCASIONALLY HAPPENS BUT IS MORE FREQUENT WHEN IT'S RAINING. IT WAS RAINING LIGHTLY AND I WAS AT A DEAD STOP AT A RED LIGHT AND UPON IT TURNING GREEN I GAVE IT SOME GAS BUT IT BARELY MOVED BUT I DID SEE THE RPMS CLIMB LIKE NORMAL, THIS HAPPENED FOR APPROXIMATELY 2 SECONDS AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN I HEARD A BIG METAL CLUNK NOISE FROM THE ENGINE BAY AND THE CAR JERKED AND STARTED TO MOVE, THIS STARTLED AND I'M GLAD NO ONE WAS IN FRONT OF ME BECAUSE I MAY HAVE REAR ENDED THEM. I CALLED AMERICAN HONDA AND INFORMED THEM OF MY PROBLEM ABOUT A MONTH AGO BUT THEY SAID THE 2002 ACCORD IN QUESTION DID NOT HAVE THIS PROBLEM BECAUSE THE VIN DID NOT FALL BETWEEN CERTAIN NUMBERS. *TR

ON NOV 17, 2009, MY HONDA ACCORD SUDDENLY COULD NOT BE STOPPED WITH THE FULL BRAKE. THE VEHICLE KEPT ON THE SAME SPEED EVEN WITH FULL BRAKE. THEN IT HAD TO HIT ANOTHER CAR. AFTER I SAW THE STOPPED VEHICLE IN THE LANE IN FRONT OF ME AT ABOUT 100-150 FEET, I THEN APPLIED THE FULL BRAKE, BUT THE VEHICLE KEPT GOING, I THEN RELEASED THE BRAKE AND APPLIED THE BRAKE AGAIN, BUT THE VEHICLE STILL KEPT GOING UNTIL IT HIT ANOTHER CAR IN THE LANE. THIS IS VERY SIMILAR TO THE CURRENT TOYOTA ACCELERATOR PROBLEM. ACTUALLY THIS IS THE SECOND TIME I MET THIS PROBLEM. ANOTHER TIME, BECAUSE THERE WAS NO CAR IN FRONT OF ME, SO THERE WAS NO ACCIDENT. THE VEHICLE GOT STOPPED AFTER I RELEASED THE BRAKE AND TOUCHED THE ACCELERATOR AND THEN APPLIED BRAKE LIGHTLY AGAIN. *TR

HONDA ACCORD 2002. FAILING TRANSMISSION AFTER ONLY 6 YEARS ON THE ROAD, AND 70,000 MILES. THE ONLY EVENTS ARE THAT AROUND OCT, 2008, THE TRANSMISSION BEGAN SLIPPING. HONDA BELLEVUE, WA, WANTED OVER $4,000 TO REPLACE. CALLING OTHER DEALERSHIPS NETTED NEARLY THE SAME COST. THREE OIL CHANGES AND TRANSMISSION FLUID REPLACEMENT, WITH CONSTANT COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE TRANSMISSION, DID NOT RESULT IN ANY CHANGE OF STANCE BY HONDA. AFTER CONTACTING HONDA CUSTOMER SERVICE, HONDA DEALER REVISED THEIR QUOTE TO $2,000 FOR A REFURBISHED TRANSMISSION. SINCE THE TRANSMISSION WAS LOGARITHMICALLY WORSE, WE ATE THE COST OF REPLACEMENT. THE REPLACEMENT WAS BUGGY IN THAT WE HAD TO SPEND CONSIDERABLE TIME AT THE DEALERSHIP WHILE THEY FIXED THE INABILITY TO TURN OFF THE CAR OR REMOVE THE KEYS. *TR

WHILE MERGING INTO TRAFFIC ON THE INTERSTATE ON RAMP THE TRANSMISSION ON MY 2002 HONDA ACCORD BEGAN TO SLIP IN AND OUT OF GEAR. THE CAR LOST ACCELERATION AND I HAD TO TAKE EMERGENCY ACTION TO QUICKLY PULL ONTO THE SHOULDER OF THE ROAD TO AVOID BEING HIT IN THE REAR AND CAUSING AN ACCIDENT. I WAS ABLE TO EXIT THE INTERSTATE BY DRIVING ON THE SHOULDER AND TOOK LOCAL ROADS BACK TO MY HOME. I TOOK THE VEHICLE TO MY MECHANIC WHO DIAGNOSED TRANSMISSION FAILURE. I THEN TOOK THE VEHICLE TO THE LOCAL HONDA DEALERSHIP WHERE THIS PROBLEM WAS CONFIRMED. THIS IS THE SECOND COMPLETE TRANSMISSION FAILURE IN THE LAST 25 MONTHS. THE FIRST INCIDENT ALSO RESULTED IN A NEAR ACCIDENT. THIS ISSUE IS WELL DOCUMENTED AND WIDESPREAD ACROSS SEVERAL MODEL YEARS IN THE EARLY 1990'S. HONDA REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE THIS AS A SAFETY ISSUE, HOWEVER, BUT FOR QUICK DRIVER REACTION THIS DEFECT WOULD HAVE RESULTED IN A SIGNIFICANT ACCIDENT ON THE INTERSTATE. AFTER THE FIRST FAILURE (IN DEC. 2007) HONDA AGREED TO REPLACE THE TRANSMISSION REQUIRING ME TO PAY FOR 1/3 OF THE COST. (THE CAR HAD 58,000 MILES AND WAS NOT IN ORIGINAL MANUFACTURER'S WARRANTY). AFTER THIS FAILURE HONDA IS OFFERING TO PAY 50% OF THE COST. (THE CAR HAS 110,000 MILES). SO IT LOOKS LIKE EVERY 50,000 MILES OR SO THIS TRANSMISSION WILL SUFFER COMPLETE FAILURE. HONDA HAS EXTENDED THE MANUFACTURER'S WARRANTY FROM THE ORIGINAL (3YR/36000) TO (7YR/100000). MY VEHICLE IS NOW 7 1/2 YR OLD AND 110000 SO HONDA SAYS THEY WILL NOT COVER IT UNDER WARRANTY (EVEN THOUGH THE TRANSMISSION IS ONLY 2 YRS OLD AND 53000 MILES) I BELIEVE THERE IS SIGNIFICANT EVIDENCE THAT THESE MECHANICAL DEFECTS ARE CAUSING SAFETY ISSUES AND WILL UNDOUBTEDLY LEAD TO INJURY OR DEATH BECAUSE THIS PROBLEM IS SO WIDESPREAD. HONDA HAS IMPLICITLY ACKNOWLEDGE THE ISSUE BECAUSE THEY CONTINUE TO OFFER SOME REMEDIATION. UNFORTUNATELY, THIS SAFETY HAZARD IS NOT BEING PREVENTED ONLY ADDRESSED AFTER CONSUMER COMPLAINTS. *TW *TR