In a recent post I heaped copious abuse on Honda Motors in
the course of describing how my 2000 Honda Odyssey blew through two
transmissions over 150,000 miles. While it is true that there were design flaws
leading to transmission miseries for models dating between 1998 and
approximately 2003, my most recent unfortunate situation was not due to any
design fault.
It seems that when the first tranny blew about three years
ago, my mechanic at the time must’ve received a great deal on a rebuilt Honda Accord(!) transmission, so he switched
out my flywheel and jerry- rigged it to my car while charging me almost $3,000.
This was only discovered by my new mechanic, who ran the serial number of my
blown tranny through Honda’s database and discovered the switcheroo.
So imagine that, a transmission built for a car half the
size of my Odyssey managed to last more than 40,000 miles before it finally
blew up. That’s pretty impressive. What’s not impressive is a mechanic who
we’ve trusted to take care of our cars for almost 30 years was probably ripping
us off for much of that time. The good thing is his business went under and
he’s nowhere to be found.
Very sad and disappointing. I’m not a very trusting person
to begin with. Experiences like this don’t help!
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