Honda Transmission issues

[Billy]

Would JDM Honda cars have better transmissions or do they also have these transmission problems that affect Honda Odysseys, Accords and Acuras in the US?

[Sastrad]

I send about 10-15 CRVs overseas every month. I have not heard of transmission issues on pre 1999 units.

[Billy]

I copy & paste this from a news about the Honda transmission recall on the internet.
Honda said on its U.S. and China websites that the voluntary recall includes the 2005-2010 model year of Honda’s Accord, its 2007-2010 Honda CR-V, 2005-2008 Honda Element, 2005-2009 Honda Odyssey, as well as the 2010 Honda Spirior, the Chinese version of the Accord compact car.

The models covered were the 2002-4 Odyssey; the 2003–4 Pilot; the 2001–2 Acura MDX; the 2003–4 Accord V-6; the 2000–4 Acura 3.2 TL and the 2001–3 Acura 3.2 CL, 2000–1 Accord; 1999–2001 Odyssey; 2000–1 Prelude; 1999–2 Acura 3.2 TL and 2001–2 Acura 3.2

globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/110805/us-honda-recall-stalling-cars-us-china-japan

wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/08/honda-transmission-problems-seem-to-persist/

[jdmvip]

I'm not sure if the JDMs had different transmissions but it looks like some may not have been affected. If you're really serious about it I would find the exact transmission between the same years of USDM and JDM to see if they're the same or not.

[Dave_H]

I wouldn't have thought there would be a major difference in the transmissions be them US, JDM or Europoean. From what I seen in Europe there was just gearing difference between the JDM and EUDM Jap cars (longer 5th/6th gear for e.g.)