Quote Originally Posted by AnthonyF
We have encountered MANY accords in this year range with zero tranny problems. If you take car of a car, the car will take care of you. Remember, most people hate a certain model of vehicle saying they are junk b/c they abused the hell out of them and couldn't hold up to it.

-Ant.
i know a lot about accords and like them very much, im on my second one right now only because my cb7 93 accord got totalled, i have a 95 and i know they are good cars that's why my wife and i bought a 98 4 cylinder automatic. BIG mistake, the engine is freakin bullet proof, but the tranny is the total opposite, it was until after we bought the car that i did the research and warrainties on the trannies were extended and a buch of other crap that kept coming up, they are super sensative, they dont have an exterior trans filter so the best you can do is keep changing the fluid, but you know one day it will go out cause the filter eventually will get cloged up and the tranny will give out.

i dont know why, but it seems like honda switch provider or manufacturer or parts suppliers, but they did something on all their auto trannies from 98-02 cause i spoke to a shop that have specials all the time on rebuilding these transmission all the time because they get so many customers, they have 2-3 already rebuilt at a time cause they go fast, and they said that they have this problem with all 98-02 hondas, like oddessy, tl, rl,cl and accords, and it's worst with the v6, my wifes tranny has been slipping for the past two years and its getting worst, and hers is a four cylinder, i have heard of v6 models stop running all together. someone here a couple of years ago let one go for like dirt cheap cause the car was not drivable cause of the tranny.

i say get the car ONLY if you plan on doing the 6speed swap, like changaroo did, i think some people use a k series tranny or get a j series tranny from a cl type s, i think the engines 4 and 6 cylinders are pretty good

or if you get a 4 cylinder also go ahead and do the 5 speed swap, the parts are much cheaper, but i do love those 6th gen accords, they are big, nice and very confortable, i want one so i can put a obd2 h22 in it to have some kick with all that comfort