I have a 2000 EX V6 Coupe and when the car is cold the trans kind of goes in hard. I have 133000 on the car and have a civic with 300000 on it and I was hoping that this car would be as reliable. Does this behavior that the trans is doing indicate possible issues to come? This car on a couple of other car sites shows a less then average transmission. Any ideas? Thanks.

Try changing to synthetic fluid. Also, when you do tranny fluid changes, do you also do the torque convertor also? It also might be the droping resistor.

It sounds like wonderful advice to get synthetic oil in the car. You mentioned a torque converter, and I was wondering what that was? For higher mileage vehicles you have different needs. That might be the key answer to their question. I think I am going to look it up on the Honda site. It must be something all the Hondas have in the transmission.

A torque converter is a fluid coupling with a stator to increase the efficiency. Every automatic transmission has one.

This generation of honda with a v6 coupled to an automatic is known for early transmission failure. A simple web search will reveal more details. The fact that the condition only happens when the car is cold means that there is some hope for you. Get the fluid changed right away. I like to do fluid changes on my automatics every 30k miles, or even more often in extreme cases.

Every automatic transmission I've ever seen or heard about shares the fluid supply between the torque converter and the transmission. Sometimes the differential shares it too. With a traditional fluid change, not all the fluid is exchanged, but the manufacturers take this into consideration when calculating the service interval.

This post has been edited by invaliddata: Apr 19 2008, 04:22 AM

Thanks for the definition of torque converters. Now I can understand the relationship between the two. You said they share they same fluid. I think that getting the transmission fluid changed is very important. When it keeps running through the engine it gets dirty. It should always have clean oils in them.