Originally Posted by
tpowers
My Wife has a 1998 Honda Accord Automatic.
It has over 150,000 miles, ran great. That was until we had the transmission oil flushed at a jiffy lube (Dumb thing to do)
h: I did ask if they could do a Honda since I heard Honda's require Honda Products ONLY, the said Sure!. Well the car ran rough for a day,than ok for a few weeks. I took and cleaned the Shift cylinoids and it ran really good, they were clogged bad. It was cool again. Then it Jump when my wife stopped the car at lights and hesitant to shift, I checked the fluid it was one quart low so I went to a local Honda dealer and brought 1 quart of tranny oil. The car ran good for two days, now it is when jumping again. I checked the fluid and it is Brown. I was told I should take out three quarts of the tranny fluid and replace three new quarts of H0nda Fluid. Ok
What do I do??? Wife is worried her car is toast and don't want to worry about the car's tanny having to be replaced.
What if any advice does anyone have. Any with same experiance?? Please Help.
As far as I can tell the problems started after having the car flushed. Not from the fluid change. I can't say that it isnt better to use the Honda fluids.Cant argue what I cant prove especially when I stated "my" opnion.
Now it would after reading around, its better to run Honda transmission fluid based on a sense of security more than proof. Probably better to be safe than sorry. The guy I bought the 93 DX automatic transmission worked at ProLube and bought the car from the owner of the ProLube who bought the car new. 200k on the motor transmission and I'll find out next time I'm up around the the place if he actually used Honda brand fluids while he owned it. If not and 200k I cant see a problem with non Honda products, If so I'll have to agree with the use of Honda Ttransmission fluids.
Now the question I have... Does Honda recommend to use all their products on their cars or do they only recomend their transmission fluids?
I can't figure out why other manufactures of transmission fluids state they are compatible or exceed the manufactures recommendations. They must be getting raped in court over this, or not.....Jack