how does the solenoid burn out the whole transmission???  if the
solenoid is not switching to activate the clutch pistons, how can the
clutches burn out?  it's just in a "forced" neutral.

unless you want to pay for a dealer diagnostic, for the price, it's got
to be way cheaper to replace the solenoid and take a pretty good stab at
that curing the problem than having someone give you a phone diagnosis
and talk you into a $1400 bill.

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?