Does the TL/MDX/Pilot/Odyssey All Use the Same Transmission?

What's acceptable to YOU,may be excessive to others.Also,you may not have
the same tires as the other guy,or be driving on different pavement.Maybe
your tires are all of equal pressures,too.

 

You've touched on one of the challenges in today's service
environment. The tech working on your car does not have the benefit of
your observations and descriptions. I've had experiences where the
mechanic reports checking what the service writer decided was the
problem without actually knowing what the customer complaint / problem
was in the first place. Leaving a note is a great approach and one I
don't always remember to do ... but always should. And the service
writers like it too.

 

You've touched on one of the challenges in today's service
environment. The tech working on your car does not have the benefit of
your observations and descriptions. I've had experiences where the
mechanic reports checking what the service writer decided was the
problem without actually knowing what the customer complaint / problem
was in the first place. Leaving a note is a great approach and one I
don't always remember to do ... but always should. And the service
writers like it too.

 

My experiences with the dealer were a little different.. when I was driving
a 90 Chevy Lumina and brought it in for rough idle the dealer was only too
happy to charge three hours worth of diagnosis time, and then they fixed the
wrong thing. It would seem a little bit silly on the surface that the
dealer would not want to charge the customer by the hour to diagnose things,
but I think the real reason is that these people know what the trouble free
repairs are that typically take less time to perform than the hours that are
in the book. In general though I see no reason at all to go to a dealer
with a car that's out of warranty unless it's a very strange problem. The
guy across the street says he was billed $500 to change plugs and wires in
his 40,000 km 2000 Accord V6 which seems ridiculous to me, my '98 CL says
platinum plugs are good to 168,000 km. If it's under warranty, (and my cars
are never that new) then I guess I would put more pressure on the dealer to
fix stuff for free.

 

My experiences with the dealer were a little different.. when I was driving
a 90 Chevy Lumina and brought it in for rough idle the dealer was only too
happy to charge three hours worth of diagnosis time, and then they fixed the
wrong thing. It would seem a little bit silly on the surface that the
dealer would not want to charge the customer by the hour to diagnose things,
but I think the real reason is that these people know what the trouble free
repairs are that typically take less time to perform than the hours that are
in the book. In general though I see no reason at all to go to a dealer
with a car that's out of warranty unless it's a very strange problem. The
guy across the street says he was billed $500 to change plugs and wires in
his 40,000 km 2000 Accord V6 which seems ridiculous to me, my '98 CL says
platinum plugs are good to 168,000 km. If it's under warranty, (and my cars
are never that new) then I guess I would put more pressure on the dealer to
fix stuff for free.

 

Any reason not to trim Caliban's post? You weren't really responding
to anything in it. Just too lazy and selfish, I guess...

By the way, ever consider a blank like between your post and the post
you're responding to?

 

Any reason not to trim Caliban's post? You weren't really responding
to anything in it. Just too lazy and selfish, I guess...

By the way, ever consider a blank like between your post and the post
you're responding to?

 

Uh....

Pot. Kettle. Black.

 

Uh....

Pot. Kettle. Black.

 

On a '01 Accord 4-cylinder it always shifts into 1st.

You can easily verify this while the car is stopped by moving the lever to
D3, then to 2. You can feel the transmission shifting to 2nd. When you move
the lever back to D3 and D4, it shifts back to 1st.

Ed

 

On a '01 Accord 4-cylinder it always shifts into 1st.

You can easily verify this while the car is stopped by moving the lever to
D3, then to 2. You can feel the transmission shifting to 2nd. When you move
the lever back to D3 and D4, it shifts back to 1st.

Ed

 

Apples and oranges.

 

Apples and oranges.

 

This reminds me of a really dense general when I was in the Army who would
totally ignore the content of briefings and spent all his time looking for
typographical errors because he could not actually understand the point of
anything that was going on.

(top posted intentionally just to irritate you).

 

This reminds me of a really dense general when I was in the Army who would
totally ignore the content of briefings and spent all his time looking for
typographical errors because he could not actually understand the point of
anything that was going on.

(top posted intentionally just to irritate you).

 

It reminds me of drooling morons, so lazy that they won't take the
little extra effort to trim and organize their posts to make them more
easily understandable. Morons so dense that they can't see the
obvious inferiority of posting their response at the top of what they
are responding to. Morons so selfish that they think the time *they*
save by top posting is more important than the time wasted by the
*many* readers who will have to struggle to understand it.

 

It reminds me of drooling morons, so lazy that they won't take the
little extra effort to trim and organize their posts to make them more
easily understandable. Morons so dense that they can't see the
obvious inferiority of posting their response at the top of what they
are responding to. Morons so selfish that they think the time *they*
save by top posting is more important than the time wasted by the
*many* readers who will have to struggle to understand it.

 

This might have made some sense fifteen years ago when CompuServe printed
everything out on the heat sensitive paper and you had to wait for it.
There hasn't been a browser made since Windows 95 came out that doesn't pop
up the postings from the top (not the bottom).

If the thread is being bottom posted, continue to bottom post. If it is
being top posted, continue to top post. If it makes sense to answer in-line
with comments immediately following the questions, then do that.

The only "drooling moron" activity I see going on here is from the "Dizzy"
bozos who hijack a thread to scream about form while blocking any chance
anyone else has of getting a substantive answer to the problem that was
posted.

I stand by my earlier analogy - if you can't contribute useful information
to the problem being discussed, stay out of it and quit wasting everybody
else's time and bandwidth.

 

This might have made some sense fifteen years ago when CompuServe printed
everything out on the heat sensitive paper and you had to wait for it.
There hasn't been a browser made since Windows 95 came out that doesn't pop
up the postings from the top (not the bottom).

If the thread is being bottom posted, continue to bottom post. If it is
being top posted, continue to top post. If it makes sense to answer in-line
with comments immediately following the questions, then do that.

The only "drooling moron" activity I see going on here is from the "Dizzy"
bozos who hijack a thread to scream about form while blocking any chance
anyone else has of getting a substantive answer to the problem that was
posted.

I stand by my earlier analogy - if you can't contribute useful information
to the problem being discussed, stay out of it and quit wasting everybody
else's time and bandwidth.

 

Sounds reasonable to me. Did you offer to pay for the diagnostic time
up front?

Policy or not, who do you propose, pay for the time spent trying to
diagnose a "problem" that can not be duplicated?


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