Transmission Gear Slipping Problems of Honda Odyssey - part 1

Transmission keeps slipping. Not typical for a car so new. Everytime we accelerate, it slips.

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After puchasing my car, the transmission started slipping on a regular basis. Between 5-40 mph it's like the car doesn't know how to shift gears automatically and jolts every additional 5mph or so. Seems very unstable. It has been a problem since about 28k miles. We're at 51k and it still does it every time we drive. There are no diagnostic codes that show up (we went to several different repair places) and are told it's impossible to do anything about other than rebuild the transmission. This is absolutely not what should happen on a car at less than 30k miles.

We traveled from new mexico to California and when we arrived and got in town the transmission started slipping on city street.

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Transmission slipping when accelerating from stationary position or whenever more speed is needed. Happens when going uphill or lane changing when more speed is needed.

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Tl the contact owns a 2014 Honda Odyssey. The contact stated that, in the past, the transmission was slipping. The contact took the vehicle to williamsburg Honda (7101 richmond rd, williamsburg, va 23188, (757) 564-4671) where it was test driven and the failure was duplicated. The manufacturer was contacted and determined that the transmission fluid needed to be flushed. The vehicle was repaired, but the failure recurred. The contact stated that when accelerating between 15-20 mph, the vehicle jerked without warning. While driving over 20 mph, the vehicle drove normally. The vehicle was not taken to a dealer or independent mechanic for diagnostic testing. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure and did not assist. The failure mileage was approximately 50,000.

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For the third time since we owned the vehicle the transmission has been slipping and the vehicle again isn't driveable. This is an ongoing problem with this y/m/m with many complaints. Nhtsa and Honda need to do a recall. I was driving when the transmission failed and was lucky to not have had any cars around me. This needs to be addressed with a recall and replacement by Honda. We're the original owners and Honda is aware of the problem as is NHTSA but no major action has been taken to recall. This is a safety issue.

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Van has 159000 miles on it. While driving, transmission slips while shifting. Shudders and jerks while shifting. A road hazard, concerned it may cause being rear ended by other vehicles.

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The 2nd and 3rd gear slips. . . . . Speedometer is off the clock.

The contact owns a 2004 Honda Odyssey. While driving 15 mph, the vehicle stalled without warning. The alternator wires burned up and the transmission slipped, which caused the vehicle to stall. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the issue. The failure mileage was approximately 20,000.

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Transmission slipping while driving on city street - transmission needs to be replaced.

Vehicle went idle while in motion on a highway and have almost got rear-ended because the transmission slips. The mileage reading is 130,000 and the car was well maintained in a Honda dealership.

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When I drive at normal speed the transmission slips and I feel an erratic jerking motion causing me to push against the seat belt. No engine or warning light comes on at any time. I checked with my mechanic and he diagnosed this as a transmission issue where the transmission is slipping between 2nd & 3rd and 3rd & 4th gear. I called Honda hotline and they refuse to acknowledge that there is a problem. I checked online and see that several owners are complaining about their 2002 Honda Odyssey with transmission slipping.

The vehicle was driving fine, and then the transmission started slipping. Trying to stop at the light, the abs seemed to engage, the car had a hard time stopping and downshifting, the check engine light came on, the d light started flashing, and the tcs light stayed on. The car almost didn't stop in time, and there was 5 passengers in the minivan.

The transmission slips when driving. Please advise.

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Passenger airbag light came on for a few seconds while driving at highway speed limit. Then vehicle seems like the transmission was slipping or took a few seconds to engage from a starting movement forward leaving a stop light. At idle the tachometer started to rev between 1100-2000 rpms at standing ilde in park. The sliding doors get jammed stuck when attempting to open from the dash controls. I know these could cause and accident and not be able to get NY children out of the vehicle via the sliding power side doors. Vehicle was purchased on 12-12-2014.

Transmission began to shift roughly and d light begin to blink tcs light has been on and off and transmission is now slipping. Our entire family was in the car 3 kids my wife and when the incident occurred and it is a safety issue for us to drive as the trans will shift roughly or not shift and remain in a lower gear when we are trying to accelerate.

On 9/10/14 I started noticing transmission slipping/down-shifting at 40mph/2k rpm many times during a less than an hour drive. Rpm would suddenly jump to 4k, and then comes back while the car suddenly jerks/slows as if it's put on engine brake. Vehicle is 2002 Odyssey and has 69k miles. Took the car to Honda dealer where the car has been serviced for years and they were able to reproduce the issue, and I was told it requires a new transmission which would cost $3700 for a reman transmission with 3-y/36 kmil warranty. Talked Honda America and tried to "seek goodwill assistance for transmission" per some recommendations. They took my info, and details, and eventually told me they reviewed their parameters, and decided this is not a case they are willing to assist. Checked my maintenance record and was able to find a recall repair performed many years ago. I searched online and found there are tons of such transmission issues reported on Honda Odyssey. In some cases, there seems to be require a transmission replacement every 50k miles or so. Apparently Honda has been knowingly selling such defective transmissions for many years w/o telling the customers. I'm disappointed to say the least at Honda America, and the so called Honda quality which is proved to be a costly myth. I have a Hyundai with close to 90k miles and so far I don't have any transmission/engine issues. I think I'm done with Honda.

I purchased the 2014 Odyssey in March 2014. About 2 months later, going down ramp to free way (it seems that the transmission gear slip or something) and it had a hard shake. I continued to drive on freeway at high speed for a few minutes seem fine. When I exited to check out, the shake came back at lower gear. I turned off the car and turn back on and it never happened again. However, just recently, just last week, it happened again. Also, I feel that the car is keep hunting for gears . . Up shift and down shift and making the rides very rough. I am afraid that something like this will cause an accident later. I purchased this car because of good crash test result, but I don't want to buy a car to cause an accident. Please help.

Check engine light on at startup. Honda dealership diagnosed problem as 2nd gear transmission slippage. Recommended a replacement transmission at appox $4000 or rebuilt or used at about $2500. Still thnking over my decision.

Please have one of your investigators' to look into this: take a look on the internet you will find thousands of complaints ( only a small percentage of Honda owners', vans & sedans on the road who have this same problem occurring) 2003 Honda transmission slipping between 2nd & 3rd gears - all the owners' complaints are identical. Unexpectedly, the vehicle loses all acceleration power, a very dangerous & serious safety defect, hazard as the driver loses control of their vehicle & acceleration. Researching on the internet, I found thousands and thousands of complaints about the exact same problem occurring in our model year 2003 and from many Honda and Acura sedan owners are also experiencing the same problem: all have the v-tech engine with automatic transmissions. This is a very dangerous situation for thousands of Honda & Acura drivers on the road -a mother's with a van full of children or really any driver trying to accelerate on a busy road from a dead stop. A driver loses control of their vehicle speed unexpectedly could cause a serious accident, even death. Honda dealers are hitting customers' for $4000. 00 for a new transmission install, replacing the same malfunctioning one that was in the vehicle previously, not reimbursing owners' for the very expensive repair bill. Honda should be held accountable for this serious & dangerous safety defect which they ignored, hid, kept installing the same transmissions when it was well known to Honda insiders' that they had a major problem - they were well aware of the problem occurring for years & did nothing. They need to be forced to fix the Honda transmissions affected at no cost to the their customers' . Honda refused to re-manufacture, re-engineer the transmission or reimburse owners' for the expensive repair bill ($4000. ). It is extremely hard to believe that NHTSA has not issued a safety recall yet!.

At approximately, 212,200 miles, the transmission began slipping when shifting from 2nd to 3rd gear and also when shifting from neutral into reverse. Transmission was recalled a few years back, was inspected by the dealer and was told that they found nothing wrong with my vehicle. I was even told this about 45 days ago during a visit for major maintenance. Yet, within the last 8-10 days, these problems have suddenly appeared. They are the exact same problems that other 1999-2004 Odyssey owners are reporting and are the ones that were the reason for the recall. Honda and the dealer don't want to do anything except install a new transmission at a cost of over $6100. 00. This is 3 times the value of the current value of the vehicle.

Evidently, the 2003 Honda Odyssey was part of a massive Honda recall and class action law suit due to failing transmissions. When we purchased our Odyssey, we were never informed on this issue. Our transmission has suddenly started failing. It will slip into neutral or a lower gear without warning. This has occurred on the highway travelling 60 mph; merging into traffic at 30-45 mph; on the secondary roads shifting from 1st to 2nd gear or 2nd-3rd gear. When the transmission slips, the car has no power to continue forward at the same rate of speed. For obvious reasons, this in extremely dangerous.

The automatic transmission began slipping at around 25 mph with d3 flashing and tcs light indicator on. The van began loosing power while driving and revolution high in the power train. This is the rebuild transmission I replaced in November 19, 2010. So it has been more than 3 years and the warranty from Honda manufacture has expired.

This was about transmission problem. The transmission slipped at around 35 mph speed inside a tunnel in yosemite national park with two children in the car. Fortunately there is no car behind us and the transmission engaged again couple seconds later. The engine check light was on when the slippage occurred. I have to drive extreme careful out of the park mountain area for 35 mile to reach the first car service garage for a check. Honda dealer did a diagnostic and recommended a transmission replacement that costs $5600. My car is just over 100k mile and was well maintained. Dealer district service manager and Honda America denied any responsibility of the transmission failure. They insisted that the recall in 2004 already fixed the transmission issue but it did not obviously! the fix cost is much more than the car current value and posts a extreme damage situation if it were operated without transmission fix. It is very disappointed that company like Honda ignores the safety issue of their car.

As I try to accelerate from a low speed, for example entering an intersection or a highway, the transmission slips and bangs into gear, causing the van to hesitate before it moves, it is a violent feeling, almost like being rear ended from another vehicle. I have brought it to the dealer numerous times and had the technician experience what I was talking about verifying something is wrong. Then when I go to pick it up after its been fixed, I am told by the manager that it is normal because no codes came up.

Purchased a Honda Odyssey 2003 brand new in 2003. Have always maintained it per manual with the same mechanic/garage , etc. The car has 115,000 and transmission started slipping two days ago. Check engine light came on and tcs, and had to have towed to garage. Mechanic says new transmission. This car has always been properly maintained and no reason why this should have happened. Very upset that Honda has had a chronic problem with transmissions on these Odysseys since their inceptions, and have even gone as far as offering people percentage of costs. I want Honday to pay for this repair!!!!.

We bought a used 2003 Honda Odyssey. We were aware that there was a transmission recall on this particular model. We contacted Honda before we bought our minivan with the VIN number, to verify that the van had the recall work done. It did. . . . We purchased the van and have been driving it for the past 19 months. We bought the van with 60,000 miles on it. Well this past Thursday the transmission started to slip just a little and it did it again on Friday. Long story short, by Monday our transmission completely went out. We took it to a Honda dealer to confirm and they assured us that we needed to replace our transmission. Our van now has 75,000 miles on it and a bad transmission. We contacted Honda about this issue and they offered no explanation or assistance. They pretty much told us that we were out of luck. We are pretty upset that we contacted them before we purchased this van about the transmission and less than 2 yrs (and only 15,000 miles) later we are paying $3700 to have a new one installed. From what we have read online, this is a common problem with this year of Honda Odyssey and we feel Honda should be held accountable for this issue!! thank you!.

The automatic transmission slips between gear 2 and 3, and is a common occurrence according to online forum sites. I took it to the dealer and it's not covered under warranty and will cost over $4,000 dollars to repair. The independent auto shops charges around 2,500 dollars to rebuild the transmission. I would like to see Honda take up the responsibility of this transmission issue and take care of its customers.

I've been noticing that while starting from a full stop, the transmission slips and the motor revs until I release the gas pedal between second and third gears. This happens on dry roads. I've had the transmission flushed by Honda at 100k miles.

Transmission fails to shift smoothly from 2nd to 3rd and 3rd to 4th. Engine rpm increases suddenly because the transmission is slipping with a loss of acceleration. Shift is no longer smooth, when it finally shifts it occurs with a "bang". At 28000 miles, the transmission was "retrofitted" with the oil jet installed in the atf fill port during the recall on 7/3/2004. Atf has been routinely replaced at twice the recommended frequency (mileage: 28000, 65589, 93831, 120975) with only genuine Honda z-1 at fluid. Accelerating into traffic is now performed with much more uncertainty and risk.

Tl- the contact owns a 2002 Honda Odyssey. The contact stated that while driving approximately 20 mph, the transmission slipped gears with the illumination of the engine warning indicator. The failure occurred intermittently. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic for diagnosis where it was found that there was a problem with the transmission pilot control. In July 2004, the vehicle was repaired under the recall associated with NHTSA campaign id number 04v176000 (power train). The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the problem. The approximate failure mileage was 127,000. Mah.

Transmission slipping felt at 30k miles reported to Honda. Final transmission failure at 58k miles. Have a huge paperweight now.

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In 2009, at 90,000 miles, the transmission failed in the 2001 Honda Odyssey we bought new. The dealer negotiated with Honda a goodwill replacement of a rebuilt transmission where we had to pay $1471. 68. We were never told of the extended warranty that should have covered entirely the first failed transmission. Since owning this vehicle, we have spent thousands of dollars on scheduled and preventative maintenance on our cars at the Honda dealership. On April 12, 32,000 miles later, the rebuilt transmission began to slip intermittently, then seriously on my drive home from work. It slipped in lower gears and would not go into higher gears. I barely escaped being rear ended on the way home and was lucky to make it home. When I contacted Honda America 7 days ago, it took Honda over 1 week before telling us that they would not cover anything since we were outside the warranty period of 36 months or 36,000 miles. We also own a 2001 Honda accord brought from the same dealer on the same day. We also experienced the same failed transmission at @ 90,000 miles with the accord also and were given a goodwill offer by Honda that offset the cost we had to pay. Our 2001 accord is a ticking bomb with 120,000 miles and we will need to get rid of it before it fails also. Apparently the original and the rebuilt transmissions are defective. I read online that Honda did not rebuild the entire transmission, but only replaced the gears that failed. According to an expert transmission mechanic, there is an endemic problem within the transmission caused by a soft disk component that runs very hot that causes gears to be chewed up and eventually fail. This means that rebuilt defective transmissions are being reinstalled in the cars which will fail again because the component causing the problem was not replaced and it continues to damage the gears. What recourse is there?.

The same problem that occurred in Dec 2012 when Honda issued a transmission software update, but only worse. I was driving at approx 18mph and the transmission locked then slipped continuously. It was worse when I was on a hill causing the van to jerk backwards. It continued to occur and when on a flat road I almost lost control of the vehicle because it jerk so hard when accelerating to 20mph. I ended up having the van towed to the dealership who can't duplicate the problem, Honda said they are unaware of the issue. I am afraid to drive the vehicle and it only has 5000 miles on it. This is my 4th Honda minivan in 10 years and this is not typical handling for the vehicle and the dealership is trying to get me to believe. . . [please try to help so no one gets injured in this vehicle. . . . Thanks,.

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Transmission slips when shifting gears. Honda says they won't fix the problem because they were aware of the problem and offered an extended 109,000 mile or 7 year warranty and my car is beyond this warranty coverage. The transmission problem will cost between about $3,000 for a rebuilt transmission or over $5,000 for a new one. The car is only worth about $5,000 if the transmission didn't have a problem now much less with this problem probably only about $1-2,000. . Read more...