Well it finally happened. Tranny went hard and was undrivable. Took it to the dealership and they told me it would be at least two weeks. Is that a normal amount of time. Now I have to pick up the little compact car they rented for me. Oh well. Hopefully the next won't go. Does anybody know how much a new tranny and install is. I will consider the cost as I don't want to have to pay for a new one in another 80K miles. Maybe I will trade it on an american car (uh!). First my yamaha motorcycles transmission recall then the acura.

 

I don't know about a new tranny and install, but I know a rebuild will set you back about $2500.

 

You're lucky they decided to replace the tranny first thing. My dealer just rebuilt mine and sent me on my way, then I was back in 3 weeks later with the same dead transmission. My second trip in took about 8 days. It really just depends on how busy the dealer is.

 

try about 4300

 

why would you have to pay, wouldn't it be covered under the 100K mile warranty...

 

They are covering it this time, but what happen in 20K miles if it breaks again. (I now have ~85K miles). At the cost of a new transmnission it may not be worth it to take the chance. I think that it is not a matter of if it will break but when. There is no reason that a modern car trasmission should last in excess of 200K miles. The fact that they are not addressing the true problem for the failure is causing me to loose faith in Honda/Acura.