Transmission not shifting right, lock out, car not moving. Van cannot go in reverse. Before it happened notice that when turning left, indoor lighting flickers especially obvious at night time driving. At stop it hesitate and when stepping at accelerator, the van jerks and jumps to high speed causing me to brake right away, felt a whiplash every time. Check recall ended after seven years but owner did nor receive any letter from Honda office about the recall. Try to contact Honda but told me recall ended.

- Hicksville, NY, USA

Hazy headlamps. This is a quote from popular mechanics that describes my problem better than I could: "most cars and a lot of trucks today are manufactured with headlamp assemblies that use quartz-halogen bulbs plugged into the back of a large plastic reflector. The outer surface of these headlamp modules is molded polycarbonate plastic. That plastic is much lighter than glass and far more resistant to stone chips and cracks. However, after a few years of exposure to sunlight and atmospheric chemicals, polycarbonate has a tendency to get hazy." Recently I thought one of my headlamps had gone out on my 2000 Honda Odyssey. Turned out the plastic headlamp cover is was just a total haze & mess and really knocking down the lamp light. I suspect the amount of light from my headlight is diminished by at least 50 percent, maybe more. Looking at other various other cars on a trip through a parking lot shows tons of others with identical problems. Not a hard problem to confirm. So my question is: Why does the government permit car makers to use plastic for headlamp covers when every single car will, in time, have significantly diminished headlight output as a result of this hazy business? seems we're putting everybody at risk just to save a few bucks. This is clearly a safety issue. The simple, rational, intelligent solution seems to go back to requiring glass headlamp covers. Problem solved. Thanks for listening!

- Saint Marys, GA, USA

The contact owns a 2000 Honda Odyssey with sylvainia silverstar II, model number 90003/HB2 (na). The epc code is 046135317279. The contact purchased replacement headlight bulbs and eight months later, the light fixture failed. He feels that the light fixture should at least last a couple of years. He also feels that the bulbs may fail without warning due to the 200 hours of light the fixture offers. The manufacturer stated that the lights were designed to last only 200 hours and no compensation would be made. The mileage was not applicable.

- Redding, CA, USA