no need to slag the whole brand because she bought a used lemon. ever
think that might have been the reason the original owner sold her a 2002
so cheaply? ya gets what ya pay for.

The reason I went with Cottman instead of a Honda dealer. I called the
dealer first and talked to the service manager. After describing the
problem I asked him what he thought. He said "That sounds bad" I then
asked him what it might cost. He said they could find out what was
wrong with it by putting it on the machine but that they did not work
on transmissions there, all they could do was replace it with a rebuilt
transmission and it would run $3,500.00. So my choices were getting
ripped by Honda for 3,500 or possibly getting the shaft from Cottmans
for 13 to 18 hundred. She gets a 12 month 12,000 warranty so she can
drive it for 11 months and then dump it for a better brand.

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Who the heck is Cottman transmission? (are they big where you are?) The
dealer has all the TSB's and diagnostic tools that are UNIQUE to Honda
trannies. You might do WAY better at a honda dealer.

'Curly'

Letting everyone know what happened. Just got off the phone with
Cottman transmission and he told me it was a solenoid that had failed
and burnt up the transmission. 14 hundred bucks. A fail safe of some
kind sounds like a good idea on some of these components now days. I
guess ya cant win them all.

Hello, My daughter just purchased an 02 Honda Civic with 110,000 miles,
4 cyl. and an auto transmission. The car has been running great until
yesterday when it would rev up between second and third gear. She had
me drive it this morning and it took about a second to shift from
second to third so I told her to take it easy till I checked around on
it. Checked the fluid and it is full and looks clean. She called about
two miles from the house and the transmission is now not doing
anything. No forward and no reverse. There were no strange noises or
grinding from the tranny it just quit pulling. Any ideas?