2000 Honda CR-V B20B Valve cover open

[Cellist]

Hi there. I've been viewing this forums for years without an account. Just been to US as a grad student. Just want to share my previous car which I use in Taiwan till this summer.
The car has 350000 km when I sold it and it looks perfectly clean filled with already 10000km of AMSoil SSO 0w-30. The car was regularly having 5000km oci at local honda dealer with honda 5w-40 (made by idemitsu) until it my father pass it to me. After that, I tried several different brands oils from CPC dino straight 30 SJ/CD (Runs quietly and smooth!), mobil clean 5000 to high end such as RL 5w-30 with OCI 5000-10000km. No problems with that engines at all and I believe it can last forever.

For here, I just got a 2017 accord I4 and will be changing with any 0w-20 GF-5/SN oil on sale under $3 a quart fallowing OLM to maintain warranty. Although it's kind of boring to me since there are good HDEOs here in US like T5 or Delo with reasonable price.

 

[Kool1]

I just wish Honda would make an automatic transmission that will last forever or at least as long their engines. I have an 03 CRV and am ready for my third transmission. I have 196,000 miles and am starting to experience slippage from first to second when the transmission is cold.

 

[Smokescreen]

Kool1...How often are you draining and refilling the ATF?

 

[Chris Meutsch]

Originally Posted By: Kool1
I just wish Honda would make an automatic transmission that will last forever or at least as long their engines. I have an 03 CRV and am ready for my third transmission. I have 196,000 miles and am starting to experience slippage from first to second when the transmission is cold.



That's odd....I have an '05 with 237k and it shifts perfectly still. I have only used Honda ATF since about 60k, and between 5k and 60k it had Amsoil's ATF in there. Drain and fill every 30k.

 

[Kool1]

Originally Posted By: Smokescreen
Kool1...How often are you draining and refilling the ATF?


I've been doing 3 drain and refills every 30,000 miles using Honda ATF. I'm now using Maxlife which seems to shorten the flaring cycle between the first and second shift.

 

[Gasbuggy]

Originally Posted By: Kool1
I just wish Honda would make an automatic transmission that will last forever or at least as long their engines. I have an 03 CRV and am ready for my third transmission. I have 196,000 miles and am starting to experience slippage from first to second when the transmission is cold.


I've been driving my accord with a slipping/flaring trans, for close to 200,000 miles. I remember at 230,000 my dad said I should have the trans rebuilt. And I suspect a lot of people have when they could have just kept driving. That may not be what happened to you, but I would just keep driving it.

 

[IndyIan]

Originally Posted By: Kool1
Originally Posted By: Smokescreen
Kool1...How often are you draining and refilling the ATF?


I've been doing 3 drain and refills every 30,000 miles using Honda ATF. I'm now using Maxlife which seems to shorten the flaring cycle between the first and second shift.

Wow, that is a lot of trans fluid. I'm going with a single drain and fill every 3rd OCI or about 20k miles. I've done 2 since we got it as 220k km and I could only find receipts for a single 3L out, 3L in, done by the dealer at 160k km... It's had an easy life, with my Mom driving it for the first 8 years but it does spend alot of time messing around between 4th and 5th locking and unlocking the TC in our hills.

 

[Archtop_Picker]

Originally Posted By: Kool1
I just wish Honda would make an automatic transmission that will last forever or at least as long their engines. I have an 03 CRV and am ready for my third transmission. I have 196,000 miles and am starting to experience slippage from first to second when the transmission is cold.


My wife aquired a 2000 Civic with 101,000 miles. ATF was black. And I mean diesel-engine oil black. In overdrive, the trans started vibrating, bucking, and would refuse to downshift unless you floored it. I figured, what the heck? I'll change it and if it grenades, it was going to anyway. Did the 3x drain/ fill with DW-1 and the car now has 215,000 and shifts perfectly. I do a drain/ fill every 30,000 now. We bought a 2008 CR-V last year with 79,000 on it. ATF was dark, not black. I had to use a jack and a breaker bar to get the drain plug loose. So, I assume it was never changed. Did the same as above and it's still going great.

I think Honda had a real problem with trannys when they started building bigger, higher torque vehicles. Early CR-Vs, Pilots, V6 Accords, Odysseys, etc.. seem to have higher-than-normal trans failures (at least from what reading I've done.) I've not heard a lot about it from more recent (last 10 years) models.