Hey guys i went to Stevens Creek Acura, and the Advisor told me that they are averaging about 100 tranny's a month that are being done. That # blew me away.

Another note that some of u might have known, but I did not, was that each transmission has a 3 year 36k warranty. Therefore as he told me, if your tranny dies at 99,900, you will be covered for roughly 135,900 miles. Thats not bad.

 

Quick, someone go dig up all of the people who posted and said the transmission failure wasn't an issue... LOL

Of course 100 a month is 3 a day! just about... wow. That's insane if those numbers are correct.

Good news on the 36k warranty. I didn't know that

 

yeah, each transmission is a time bomb to explode... its just a matter of time. hopefully it will happen before 100K, otherwise you are screwed... but it will happen eventually before 200K

 

guess who's gonna drive the shit outa their car at 99,999 miles...lol

 

who?

 

thats awesome to know about the replacement tranny 3yr/36k

 

Yeah, but have they gotten a reliable fix for the tranny now? They have had plenty of time to get it right.

 

Now? Maybe.... But what about all the people still having old transmissions awaiting for them to fail? Warranty is there, but 100K is not sufficient... I'd expect to run those cars for 200K miles.

 

my cls will be long gone b4 I hit crazy miles like that.

 

Minus weekends, that's more like nine a day. Try to imagine that happening, consistently.

 

That is a dilemma. I really hope they've gotten a CORRECT fix by now.

I have a 2001 CL-S with 26,000 miles and just checked the tranny fluid. Gettin' a little dark, but it's supposed to anyway since there is a tranny fluid change at 30k.

Then I checked the tranny fluid my family's 2002 Toyota Sequoia which has 34k miles. Haven't done the 30k service yet, but the fluid is super bright pinkish-red. And this vehicle's done it's fair amount of towing also.

Hey, this ain't stopping me driving the CL like you're supposed to!

 

here come the 98,000 mile neutral drops

ha

 

100 per month seems about right...I do on an average of 3 trannies per week and we have 12 tech's...I also have'nt done any less than 1 tensioner PER DAY!!!for the past two weeks..

 

Yikes the trans problems are back in black again.

 

I wish we had a Toyota transmission.

 

Can anyone confirm 3yrs/36k miles warranty on replaced transmission? I think the local dealer states something different: 1yr/12kmiles!

Nashua.

 

i still havent heard about a feb.03 traany failing, so thats good to know.
and since some older trannies failed within 5k miles, i would say the newer ones are definately improved.
also, reading most of the nhtsa report confirms my speculation

 

My March '03 tranny is on its way out.... But I dont know if it was one lying around or what

 

My tranny failed middle of February while the tech was on the test drive! He said there was a whine in the tranny!

 

I was thinkin' that too but can't they tell is you did that.

 

That gets me an extra 1,000 miles, as #3 was put in at about 65,000.