# Di dHonda Transmissions get better since the early 2000s?

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/di-dhonda-transmissions-get-better-since-the-early-2000s/38721>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** transmissions, civic, accord, failure, honda\
**Created:** [October 28, 2009, 1:26pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/di-dhonda-transmissions-get-better-since-the-early-2000s/38721 "2009-10-28T13:26:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![shieber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@shieber](https://community.cartalk.com/u/shieber)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 1:26pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/di-dhonda-transmissions-get-better-since-the-early-2000s/38721/1 "2009-10-28T13:26:14Z")

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The early 2000s Civic and Accord automatic transmissions were notorius for early failure, especially due to convertoer failures. Did the models get bettter in subsequent years?

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**Author:** ![Jeffmw05](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@Jeffmw05](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Jeffmw05)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 2:15pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/di-dhonda-transmissions-get-better-since-the-early-2000s/38721/2 "2009-10-28T14:15:06Z")

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Find the April issue of Consumer Reports and look up the car in question in the reliability tables, that might be a good place to start.

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**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 2:16pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/di-dhonda-transmissions-get-better-since-the-early-2000s/38721/3 "2009-10-28T14:16:55Z")

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Looking at Consumer Reports, the black circles (“much worse than average”) turn to red circles (“much better than averag”) for “transmission major” by 2003 for Accord and Civic (which never got worse than “average”), and 2005 for Oddysey.

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**Author:** ![shieber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@shieber](https://community.cartalk.com/u/shieber)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 2:28pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/di-dhonda-transmissions-get-better-since-the-early-2000s/38721/4 "2009-10-28T14:28:21Z")

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A number of forums and websites (e.g, [carcomplaints.com](http://carcomplaints.com)) show that the early 2000s Accrds and cvcs had serius tranny probs (similar to the 1999-2003 Odys) with 2003 being the year with the hightest number of complaints for the cvc. I was wondering if the trannies in the 8th generation was a new design or not. I’ve known a number of folks with Hondas from that period and they all had tranny probs.