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Car Forum / Honda Cars / June 2006'99 Civic automatic tranmission trouble
Hi All, new to the group. We just picked up a very clean '99 Civic EX 2-door automatic for my daughter's first car. Lately it's been shuddering, slipping a shifting harshly, mostly when pulling away from a stop. Seems to run OK once up to speed though. Coincident with this behavior the CEL illuminates. Retrieving the error code with a scanner reveals a code "PO730 - Gear Ratio Incorrect" is present. This seems to be consistent with the poor shifting performance. Any clues as to what's wrong? Automatic transmissions are scary things as they are usually very expensive to fix.  Signature-WJB >Hi All, new to the group. We just picked up a very clean '99 Civic EX >2-door automatic for my daughter's first car. Lately it's been shuddering, [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >the poor shifting performance. Any clues as to what's wrong? Automatic >transmissions are scary things as they are usually very expensive to fix. Since you're the second owner the first thing I would do would be to change the auto trans fluid and make sure to use Honda's stuff. Honda's ATF should always be used...the Dexron III stuff isn't the same. >>Hi All, new to the group. We just picked up a very clean '99 Civic EX >>2-door automatic for my daughter's first car. Lately it's been [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > should > always be used...the Dexron III stuff isn't the same. Thanks, that was my first thought as well, so I changed the fluid and made sure to use the genuine Honda stuff. That actually seemed to help for a little while but the problem came back. Recently I've located some information about changing the fluid several times and then replacing something called the linear solenoid or some such? What's that all about? Signature-WJB > >>Hi All, new to the group. We just picked up a very clean '99 Civic EX > >>2-door automatic for my daughter's first car. Lately it's been [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > -- > -WJB ---------------------------------------------- Since you only changed out about a third of the volume of the fluid, it makes sense to change it at least twice more since you don't know where that poor sucker has been. Look at the CRV TSB's for more about the solenoid, as well as the Civics. 'Curly' > > >>Hi All, new to the group. We just picked up a very clean '99 Civic EX > > >>2-door automatic for my daughter's first car. Lately it's been [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > > 'Curly' ------------- Sorry, here's the link I forgot to include: http://www.tegger.com/hondafaq/tsb/ Signature'Curly' > ------------- Sorry, here's the link I forgot to include: > http://www.tegger.com/hondafaq/tsb/ Don't forget more TSBs located at this relatively new link: http://www.tegger.com/hondafaq/online-manuals.html (go about half-way down to EBSCOHost...) SignatureTeGGeR® The Unofficial Honda/Acura FAQ www.tegger.com/hondafaq/ >> > >>Hi All, new to the group. We just picked up a very clean '99 Civic >> > >>EX [quoted text clipped - 47 lines] > ------------- Sorry, here's the link I forgot to include: > http://www.tegger.com/hondafaq/tsb/ Thanks! Signature-WJB Hi All, new to the group. We just picked up a very clean '99 Civic E 2-door automatic for my daughter's first car. Lately it's been shuddering slipping a shifting harshly, mostly when pulling away from a stop. Seems t run OK once up to speed though. Coincident with this behavior the CE illuminates. Retrieving the error code with a scanner reveals a cod "PO730 - Gear Ratio Incorrect" is present. This seems to be consistent wit the poor shifting performance. Any clues as to what's wrong? Automati transmissions are scary things as they are usually very expensive to fix - -WJ This is not for a do-it yourselfer to mess around wit take it to a transmission specialist before you start harming internall components in your transmission -- johnin > Hi All, new to the group. We just picked up a very clean '99 Civic EX > 2-door automatic for my daughter's first car. Lately it's been [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > the poor shifting performance. Any clues as to what's wrong? Automatic > transmissions are scary things as they are usually very expensive to fix. Well, I'm talking to myself I guess. An amazing story of customer support to report: We took the Civic to the dealer that the PO had kept it maintained at and told them our sad story. I also told them I tried changing the ATF 3 times and replacing the linear solenoid per TSB 00-012 to no avail. I communicated to them that as our first experience with a Honda car we were disappointed in this problem. The service manager called me later in the day and told me the transmission was indeed toast and would have to be replaced, she also told me that she had called American Honda on our behalf and they agreed to replace the transmission with a factory re-manufactured unit and they would comp the job 100%! Needless to say, my daughter and I were floored, relieved and over joyed. To beat that they had the job done in 2 days and washed the car too! As my 18 year old daughter would say: "Honda Rocks!" Signature-WJB >> Hi All, new to the group. We just picked up a very clean '99 Civic EX >> 2-door automatic for my daughter's first car. Lately it's been [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > joyed. To beat that they had the job done in 2 days and washed the car too! > As my 18 year old daughter would say: "Honda Rocks!" excellent. now you know why the original owner got rid of it! |
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