Transmission Slip Out Of Gear Problems of Honda Civic Hybrid

There is a shuttering in the transmission that occurs when the car is attempting to get out of first gear. The shuttering is becoming more violent. The car has also slipped out of drive (while on the road) and wouldn't accelerate. I've read that the shuttering isn't fairly common in this model and/or type of transmission.

See all problems of the 2003 Honda Civic Hybrid 🔎.

While accelerating moderately, often while trying to pass another vehicle on the freeway or even while trying to maintain speed up a hill, our 2005 Honda Civic Hybrid would slip out of gear and the engine would suddenly rev up to redline rpm (it is an automatic transmission). The service technician could not reproduce this event. After a few months, this started happening quite often -- every day in predictable locations on our driving route. In addition, a judder developed when starting from a stop. This latter issue was identified by Honda and a technical bulletin was put out. The judder made the car nearly undrivable, so we again took the car in. The transmission fluid was replaced and the clutch plates were burnished. The tranmission slippage and engine revving disappeared. Now, 5 months later, the transmission slip with engine revving has returned as well as the judder starting again. We purchased an extended warranty, so the cost has not been an issue so far, however our warranty expires in June 2010. We are mainly concerned with the repeated appearance of the problems, especially that the transmission slip/engine revving can be a safety issue when trying to accelerate on an on-ramp or pass a car on a two-lane road. If the engine slips out of gear while passing a car, it may have tragic results.

See all problems of the 2005 Honda Civic Hybrid 🔎.

The contact owns a 2003 Honda civic-hybrid. The contact stated that the vehicle shutters and jerks when shifting gears. The failure occurs at all gears, with the greatest difficulty shifting out of second gear. The dealer replaced the catalytic converter, starter clutch, and flushed the transmission, however, the failure still persists. The dealer stated that some jerking was normal. The speed was unknown. The current mileage was 71,000 and failure mileage was 30,000.