Bought 2001 Honda Odyssey at 132k. Transmission has started to fail at 209k, What are my options? Is it worth replacing it a refurbished one which one or trade in the vehicle?
The Odyssey has notorious bad transmissions from 2000-2003. You will not get anything on a trade, the trans can be fixed for about $2k. If everything else on the van still works and you like it, figure you bought it again for $2k. I changen my wife's Odyssey trans at 175K miles for $2k and she is happy so therefore I am happy too :-)
My Honda Odyssey 2001 transmission died last week. I had the car towed to a Honda Dealer. After giving my VIN # to the dealer, they replaced my transmission at no cost because it fell within the 7 year, 100 K mile extended warranty Honda was giving due to the class action suit on Honda Odyssey transmissions of the specified years 1999-2003 I believe. I paid nothing and I have a new transmission!
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I had my 2001 Honda Odyssey transmission go a week ago. I had it towed to a Honda Dealer. They checked my VIN # and it was covered under the extended warranty of 7 years or 100K with no charge. They replaced it at no cost so you may want to do the same thing.
If you're under the 100K mile/7 yr warranty - Thank God! Because of the faulty transmission that Honda knows about; therefore, extended the warranty on - you can get it replaced for free. But you do not get an additional warranty on the new one. I've had ours replaced twice; both before the car even had 80,000 miles it.
If your transmission is replaced because of it's faulty workmanship, BUT it breaks down after the extended warranty time - you're on your own. They won't be "responsible" for the transmission after the extended warranty ends. Mine ends at the end of May, 2009, and I had my last one put December of 2007.
It has been a nightmare with this thing. Now my electrical system is going down and something is draining the battery.
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