Hi,
I posted this last week, but only go one response, the response simply said get a new car. However, If I had done that when the problem started a few years ago, I would have missed out on the last couple of trouble free years and the freedom of no car payments. This is more of a quirk, than a problem as it is just a momentary thing that only happens when the car is cold and for the first two or three times through the gears. I was just wondering if anyone else had experienced it. As soon as the car is warm, it acts like it is new. Here is the post...

I have a 98 Accord EX 4 cylinder with 190,000 miles. I have had this beauty since new. The past few years I have noticed some minor Automatic Transmission slipping - only when cold and only between 1st and 2nd. After the engine warms up all is well in the tranny. This winter it seemed a bit more pronounced, but as I am from the "If it ain't broke.. " school of fix-up I have deemed it perhaps just a "senior moment" for a car that has served me very well for nearly 200K miles. Last year I changed the trans. fluid and filter as a bit of routine maintenance but that had no effect on the slippage. I was wondering if this is common, and I am also wondering if it can be fixed and if it is a sign of more problems to come. Thanks for any input.
Ken Irwin
98 Honda Accord EX
96 Honda Shadow 1100
06 Honda VFR 800 Interceptor

 

The reason you got that answer is the 98-02 model automatic transmissions in Accords were basically garbage. You cannot repair them that I know of. You will have to either live with the problem, rebuild the trans, or replace the trans with a new one (with about a 50% chance the new one will go bad soon anyway).