Seven problems related to power train have been reported for the 1997 Honda Accord. The most recently reported issues are listed below.
While driving car speed starts to fall soon there is no pedal at all and smoke and fire come from underneath dashboard transmission hesitates to shift now currently un safe to drive.
This car randomly shuts down as I am driving have taken it to numerous places and nothing is found. Shut down 6 times in a row last time with my child in the car on a dark highway cold and raining. Very dangerous!!! the inside lights flash on and off all of the time mostly turning curves, wasting battery. Noise in the front wheels/tires/axles like something is waiting to break off as you are driving. Overheated last year for no apparent reason costing ton of money. I have replaced the compressor twice and still the air conditioner doesn't cool. I leave the "air" button on to keep the fans running so it doesn't overheat as I'm driving. Not to mention in the summer it is blowing out heat and all the windows do not roll down. This car is a mess and I will never purchase another Honda. Thanks-.
I have noted that I can remove the key from the ignition of my 1997 Honda Accord without being in park. The safety issue is that the driver turn off the engine, remove the key (not in park), leave the car and the car can then roll away. This is the same safety defect that is now being recalled on the 2003 Honda.
The contact owns a 1999 Honda Accord. The contact stated that the vehicle would hesitate when shifting gears. The vehicle would also lunge forward sporadically and without warning. The dealer diagnosed that the transmission would need to be replaced. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 65,000 and the current mileage was 87,000. The VIN was unavailable.
On 7/27/03, Sunday the check engine light showed up, I decided to take the car to my mechanic right away the next day, but on Monday morning, I couldn't even get out to the main road from my development and the car just lost the gear. This happened without any warning sign, and the incident could have turned fatal at highway traffic and speeds. Car just has 58k miles and Honda refuses to help in any way, even though they have history of such problems and they even have an extended warrenty for such problems on newer Honda and Acura branded vehicles. The reason for refusal is that they don't provide goodwill assistance to vehicles more than 5 years old. But the bottomline is that I have maintained this vehicle well and generally the usage habits affect manual transmissions not the automatic ones. We have driven other cars to death and nothing had happened to their automatic transmissions, so this is a manufacturer defect. There is certain quality and durability that is expected from any product, and the manufecturer should be held liable for any product that fails, even if it happens outside of warrenty. The fact that they provide 7 years/100000 miles extended warrenty on newer vehicles, sets up a precedent, that is they expect a defect free transmission to last at least that long. Honda just thinks that they can get away without fixing older cars because they think oweners won't pursue their case in the court, but I am going to the small claims court for sure on this one.
Started at about 46k tach started bouncing over 2k rpm than started experancing powerloss and eratic shifting than intermitant undriveable conditions dealer says I need a new trans.
Speedometer unit.