bad transmission - 2500 dollars

The answer you got from jim beam at the beginning of the thread made
perfect sense, anything else was the result of you being an ass.

 

Who is "we"?

 

I just ask questions... if this makes me an ass than be it.

 

As I said before - if this is waste of time to you, then stop doing this.
Participation in this newsgroup is volountary, if you did not know.

 

OK, I will do it.

 

I am sorry, but you do not sign your posts with any "expert" name...
For a stranger like me who does not know you in person, your answers
here look like any other opinion from any random guy on the street.
That is why my investigative mode of asking many questions and
"being an ass"... If you want to be read as an expert than state who
you are in every post you write here... Everything will be clear then
and people will know who is the expert and who is the user here.

 

A 15 second search will show you who's who in here and whether they
know what they are talking about or not, what's so hard about that?
There is no need for them to state who they are in each post. I read
about 10 threads before I posted my first question and knew who was
going to give me the correct advice before said question was asked,
it's pretty simple.

 

What would I be looking for during this 15 seconds search?

But ok, prove to me your search skills...
Tell me who Jim is and where he works!

What makes him an expert in your eyes?

Maybe ad hominem arguments he makes against TE Chea when
he suggested using transmission fluid filter inline to the radiator?

Just because somebody posts here a lot does not make him an expert.

You must be very bright then...
For me, not being a mechanic I cannot judge good advice from bad one.
It is simple: if I knew what to do with the transmission I would not ask around.

 

If you have so many questions about the very people you are asking for
advice from, then you shouldn't be seeking advice from them to start
with.

Jim is giving the same advice as the others, don't flush your tranny.
How many people do you need to give you the same advice before you
believe it? 10? 20? 100?

I don't care where Jim works, I don't care where anyone here works,
all I care about is getting 200k or more out of my Honda and I trust
the opinion of those who have done so before me. I found answers to
all my questions here, transmission, rear diff, brake pads, rotors,
sway-bar links, valve adjustment intervals, importance of Honda
fluids, etc. etc.

I'm bright enough to know this exchange of words is not going to help
me achieve 200k one iota.

 

You have not answere my question.

It is not in the number of people but what kind of people.

So how can you tell that a random opinion signed with a random
nickname is good for you or bad if you do not care who the people
giving you advice are?

Then why did you take part in this discussion in the first place?
If you care to share your 2 cents take the responsibility for
what you said and do not escape from discussion at the first
inconvenient question.

 

When you go to a Model T convention, for example, do you question
everyone there? Do you assume that NO ONE there knows anything about
Model Ts?

You've come to a Honda newsgroup, populated by many experienced users.
Yet you question everyone as if he knows nothing.

It's you who knows nothing. And you will continue to know nothing.

 

If I were you I would hang up your keys and call a taxi.

 

Why are you so easily convinced? It could be a fake posting. You should
get you AT flushed. I'm convinced.

 

Really, why is that?
Maybe you simply answer the question?

 

The single fact that someone is on some convention does not
make him an expert in the field. Convention is not for experts
only and gather people WHO WANT TO LEARN about the subject.
Sometimes there are people who know NOTHING about the subject
and just starting their learning process...

See a fault in your reasoning?

If you go to convention and assume EVERYBODY is the expert
than I wish you food luck in your life...

But I am still on the Honda newsgroup and maybe somebody will
confuse me with some expert if there is nothing really telling
you who the expert is here and who is not... Think about it...

I have my own rules who do I respect as an expert and who I do not.
I allow posibility that a random poster on this newsgroup might
know very little about honda cars, similarly like I do know
very little and I am a member of this newsgroup. So that is why
I would like to know who am I talking with - Jim or Elmo tell me
very little or nothing about your expertise in car repari - sorry.

If I knew you are a engineer at the Honda plant, or at least
a technician there - that would be a whole different story...

 

Jokes aside we still did not talk about the second part of
the question: about the myth related to the claims about
"beneficial particles in the old tranny fluid which
suppose to help transmission to work better than with
the new fluid", anybody with opinion on this matter ?

 

Me too. I just changed mine a few weeks ago but I'm heading over to In-
N-Out Lube this afternoon to get it flushed. That flushing machine has
the word "PRO" on it in big letters so it must be good. I'm going to
have them fill it with Marvel Mystery Oil instead of Z1 because some
guy on Yahoo said it works better. He posted that he worked for Honda
R&D and I believe him.

 

I am starting to see faint signs of thinking in your posts....
Finally I was able to drive my arguments through, I guess

 

Trade it ASAP to a dealer who thinks he's ripping you off.

 

Funny comment. IMO they said that to be sure your transmission grinds
itself to death.