tommyt1777

My car has 150,000 miles on it. Obviously, it has too much mileage for a "goodwill" transmission service from the dealership.

I did a good bit of looking around and after talking to a few mechanics I found one that claims that the cooling system is the problem with the transmissions and that he can do a full rebuild, replace my front motor mount, and install an external transmission cooler. All of this for under $2000 and it includes a 36,000 mile warranty.

Has anyone heard of using an external transmission cooler to fix the CL's transmission problem? Is this guy full of crap?

The car is an 01 CL type-s.

I am seeing that people here are going through multiple transmissions. Am I just wasting my time?

97BlackAckCL

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That's a great warranty, and a tranny cooler is a must to prolong the life of your tranny

01RedCLS

I thought the tranny cooler's were proven to ultimately NOT provide any benefit in preventing the 3rd gear clutch pack overheat?

russianDude

correct, there is no proof that tranny coolers do any good. Many member had tranny cooler and their transmission still failed. My personal opinion that these coolers do more damage than good, they basically add extra piping to the circulation system and could potentially slow down the speed of flow, which could be important for our sensitive transmissions. On the other note, had this been the problem indeed, I am sure Honda would start offering tranny coolers as a recall or recommendation.... it would have been a lot cheaper for them to do that than to pay for transmission replacement.