The contact owns a 2005 Honda Accord. The contact stated that the transmission was slipping. While driving 40 mph the transmission failed and the vehicle would not shift into gear. She had to drive onto the emergency lane. The vehicle was inoperable and had to be towed to an auto shop. A mechanic stated that transmission needed to be replaced. The Honda manufacturer was notified and a claim was filed. Contact file a claim and they should be giving her a call back. The failure mileage was 59,000.

- Downers Grove, IL, USA

I have a 2005 Honda Accord with a 6 speed manual transmission which I bought new in April 2005. I had intermittent problems engaging 3rd gear right from the start. I took the car in for this problem at 5,000 & 15,000 mi. Honda mechanics could find no problem. At 34,712 mi. A mechanic finally verified the problem and replaced the trans fluid per tech line with part #08798-9031. This was in April 07. The problem persisted. In August 07 with 44,000 mi. I took it in again for the same problem. No help. Finally I was contacted by a service manager who verified that Honda had a problem with 3rd gear in the Accord and a fix was on the way. It would be available in December. It is now late March and still no fix. Since that time I have gone on-line and found that Honda has been aware of this problem with the 6 speed transmission in the Accord, the civic and the Acura since at least 2005. There are many sites with Honda owners complaining of this problem and getting no response from Honda. In certain situations, such as merging into traffic from a freeway on-ramp, it is very dangerous to have the car either not go into 3rd gear or pop out of it. The vehicle immediately decelerates and other vehicles traveling at freeway speeds come up very fast. Is there any way to make Honda fix these cars? below is an excerpt from edmunds.com and also a service bulletin related to this on-going problem. A few of our editors have noticed in the past that the transmission shift lever in our long-term 2006 Honda civic si will occasionally pop out of gear or grind when making a 2-to-3 upshift. This trait does not seem to be endemic to our car as other civic si owners have made forum posts about this topic. (other six-speed manual Acura vehicles might also suffer from this problem.) brent romans, senior automotive editor, edmunds.com tsb #1205 -- transmission grinds at shifts, skip shifting. (NHTSA id #10018868, December 16 2005).

- Paso Robles, CA, USA