Transmission slipping on the 2000 Honda Accord
Only 3 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.
When transmission slipping gets reported
There are 4 reports of transmission slipping on the 2000 Honda Accord, 3 with a mileage attached. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 95,000 miles. It is the 40th most-reported problem on this model year.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | 140,000 miles | — | — |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Putting it right typically runs $1,200–$5,500 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 6 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2013, at a median of 1,200 miles, and latest on the 1999 at 145,000 miles.
By volume the 2003 carries the most reports, with 32; the 2000 has 4. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
I have a 2000 honda accord se - 4 cylinder. Sometimes when I take my car from park to reverse, I get a thud sound. I didn't think anything about it. At around 120,000 miles, when I put my car in reverse, the car won't move. When I step on the gas to try to get the car to move in reverse, the engine revs, but the car still won't move. I put the car back to park and then put in into reverse and it will be fine. If I am parked on a slanted surface where the front end of my car is sitting lower then the back and I try to put my car into reverse, the car rolls forward, but not reverse. One time I had to put my car into park, then reverse, park then reverse about 20 times to get out of the parking space. Because my car is over the warranty period, my local honda dealer won't do anything about it. My husband seems to think that my transmission is slipping and someday I am going to be stuck. We don't have the $2000 to $4000 to have a new transmission put in. I thought hondas were a long lasting car? I bought my car brand new and hoped to get my years out of it before I had to put major money into it. Has anyone else had this problem? *tr
I have a 2000 honda accord lx 4cyl coupe which was given a new transmission at 97k miles because of a recall. It has 140k miles now and the transmission is slipping again. My honda dealership is telling me the only solution is to replace it and that it needs to be done asap. They will not pay for it this time even though this one only has $40k miles on it. They want me to pay $2200. After researching on the internet, this type of transmission problem is widespread on this model accord. *tr
My 2000 honda accord transmissions has began to slip on march 28,2011 as I was making a delivery for my job traveling uphill ,I got a couple of readings from a mechanic which was codes p730,p740,&p780 it hasn't stopped and continues to slip as I drive at any speed & slips everytime I drive.I had a mechanic clean the solenoids and do a transmission fluid flush for $200.00,I also added lucas transmission slip stop and problem still occur.I got an estimate for repair for the transmission for $3000.00. *tr
Also reported on the 2000 Honda Accord
Airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault
Other powertrain problem
Control module (ECM/PCM/BCM) failure
Other electrical problem
Other body or interior problem
Control arm, ball joint or bushing failure
How far this goes
This page is kept out of search results because 4 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.
Complaints are voluntary, so 4 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does transmission slipping happen on the 2000 Honda Accord?
Across 3 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 140,000 miles. A quarter were filed before — and a quarter after —. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is transmission slipping on the 2000 Honda Accord?
4 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.1 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed