Noises During Shifting problems of the 2013 Honda Accord

Two problems related to noises during shifting have been reported for the 2013 Honda Accord. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2013 Honda Accord based on all problems reported for the 2013 Accord.

1 Noises During Shifting problem

Failure Date: 07/01/2018

Tl-the contact owns a 2013 Honda crosstour. The contact stated that while stationary, upon starting the vehicle, there was a strange grinding noise coming from the starter, as stated by the contact. The contact stated that the failure was intermittent and occured several times over the period of three months. Napleton's river oaks Honda - 17220 torrence Ave, lansing, IL 60438 (708) 782-4770 - was made aware of the failure and diagnosed that the starter and the gear shifter box were faulty and needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired under warranty for the replacement of the starter and the gear shifter box. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure and provided the contact with case number: 09072371. The contact referenced TSB: a16-002 (electrical system) as a potential cause of failure. The failure mileage was 82,000.

2 Noises During Shifting problem

Failure Date: 05/25/2014

05/25/14 while backing the vehicle out of my drive way I noticed the a thumping sound and a jerking from the vehicle which caused great alarm from me. I called the dealer and they told me to bring it in. When I took the vehicle in the kept it for about a day and told me that they could not find anything wrong with it and that the inspector said that the same thing was happening to a new vehicle, that the noise and jerking was just the way it was. They called it a hard shift. My car is not a daily driven vehicle being I have two other cars that I primarily use. At the time of the incident my car had aprox. 303 miles on it. Now several months later on 01/01/15 when I went to start my vehicle I noticed the same problem, and being that I had already taken it once to the dealer and them telling me nothing was wrong with it, I had no second thought of taking it out on the road. I proceeded to drive down my residential street and realized I had forgot something at home. So on the residential intersection I started to make a u turn when all of a sudden steering cut out on me in the middle of my turn. I narrowly missed oncoming traffic and stopped right before I hit the curb and a parked car. When I did stop and got my composure back I looked down and there was a steering wheel light on and a buzzing noise. All this while going no more then 6 miles and hour. At this current moment my car is less then 2 years old and has less then 400 miles on it and I cannot believe that this would happen to such a new car with so little miles on it. Following this incident I googled my car to see if I was the only one having this problem and lord behold I was not. There are numerous accounts of this happening to other people some resulting in serious accidents. But most of the cars in those incidents that I could see had about 20k to 30k miles on them and mine does not even have 1k on it yet.




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