On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 22:48:51 +0000 (UTC), Joe LaVigne
<jlavigne@hits-buffalo.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 13:14:19 -0800, heycraig wrote:
>
>> I ended up taking the car into the dealer. They diagnosed it as an
>> internal problem with the computer. The good news is that it was
>> covered under the CA emissions warranty which is 8 yrs 80K miles. One
>> interesting thing that I found out from the service advisor who
>> originally thought that it might be a transmission problem was that
>> Honda is replacing transmissions on '00 and '01 Accords. I didn't have
>> the time to ask him what the potential transmission problems were.
>> Interesting though that Honda has not sent me a service bulletin or
>> anything about the transmission. Craig
>
>They are not changing the transmissions unless needed.
>
>It effects only 6 cyl accords, and the proper fix is a cooling upgrade to
>2nd gear in the Automatic transmission. If the transmission has already
>failed, then the tranny would be replaced under warranty.
>
>The warranty is also extended or the tranny.


the second gear cooling pipe only applies t 2003-2004 trannys. a
p1491 code is for insufficient lift, bad valve. the more likely
code is a p0401 insufficient flow.
lets get the codes read so we can do a proper diag.
Chip

 

On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 22:48:51 +0000 (UTC), Joe LaVigne
<jlavigne@hits-buffalo.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 13:14:19 -0800, heycraig wrote:
>
>> I ended up taking the car into the dealer. They diagnosed it as an
>> internal problem with the computer. The good news is that it was
>> covered under the CA emissions warranty which is 8 yrs 80K miles. One
>> interesting thing that I found out from the service advisor who
>> originally thought that it might be a transmission problem was that
>> Honda is replacing transmissions on '00 and '01 Accords. I didn't have
>> the time to ask him what the potential transmission problems were.
>> Interesting though that Honda has not sent me a service bulletin or
>> anything about the transmission. Craig
>
>They are not changing the transmissions unless needed.
>
>It effects only 6 cyl accords, and the proper fix is a cooling upgrade to
>2nd gear in the Automatic transmission. If the transmission has already
>failed, then the tranny would be replaced under warranty.
>
>The warranty is also extended or the tranny.


the second gear cooling pipe only applies t 2003-2004 trannys. a
p1491 code is for insufficient lift, bad valve. the more likely
code is a p0401 insufficient flow.
lets get the codes read so we can do a proper diag.
Chip