I have a 97 cl 3.0 with 140 thousand miles. Ive read from so many other blogs that this car is plagued with transmission problems and I thought that my car was exempt from those problems until last night.

When I got home from work yesterday evening my car started acting sluggish. I drove 45 mins on the highway from work, and then I stopped at the gas station. The entire way home on the highway my car was fine. I stopped a few places in town and it was fine then too. When I left the supermarket I noticed that I had my gas pedal to the floor and my car would not go over 20 miles an hour. By this time I was only a few blocks from home so I just pretty much coasted the entire way. I barley made it into the parking lot at my complex.

When I pulled into the parking space I noticed that there was a trail of transmission fluid that had followed me. I had my car towed and there was a big puddle of transmission fluid on the ground underneath. The mechanic I took it too told me that there was a hole in the hose and that I will have to have my whole transmission rebuilt or get a new one.

I seriously love this car, it's my baby and I do not want to get rid of it. I am willing to pay for it to be done but I want to make sure that it is what is really needed.

I have not had any problems with shifting before and this is the first time I have had to take the car in for something other than the regularly scheduled maintence. Thanks for your help.

 

Hole in the hose? Does he mean the transmission fluid cooling lines? I don't see why you would have to rebuild it in that case unless you really nuked it from the fluid loss.

 

well i say fix that "hole" and fill the tranny up with Honda ATF-Z1 and see if it still works. If it doesnt, you might have burned out your tranny and a rebuild is needed with cooked clutch packs and shift solenoids etc. Heat (low fluid) is the killer for our transmissions.

 

Just to let you know. I ended up getting my tranny rebuild at the cost of 2120.75!!!! But I've got my baby back so that's all that matters!!!

 

Dang dude.. you could of safed like 2000 dollars by just replacing the hose and replace the fluid..that transmission guy is a good salesmen..I mean a good BSER. LOL i guess times are tuff for buisness and they lie to get some money out of ya.