Jambana ha scritto:
Se su Google clicco "rottura scatola sterzo Prelude" il primo risultato che mi esce fuori è "Alfa 159" :lol: e tutti gli altri a seguire non parlano di rotture di Honda, a parte un tizio che forse avrebbe rotto l'idroguida per essersi fatto trainare con un gancio agganciato ad un tubo del servosterzo...
Lo stesso per il cambio automatico...nessun risultato.
Sicuro si tratti di due difetti conosciuti?
http://www.preludeonline.com/f60/automatic-transmission-problems-250527/
http://www.preludepower.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-318971.html
"Honda used the Prelude as it's test bed for much of it's new technology. This was the case for the SS Auto 5th Gen and the 4 speed version of the transmission.
Initially, Honda thought that the design would translate from paper to a decent product. Unfortunately, they ran into manufacturing problem - mostly quality control related due to the very tight tolerances in the transmission.
When the first problems started to be reported, Honda let the local dealers attempt to fix the problem. Generally, this entailed sending the trans out to a local trans shop to repair the unit with Honda OEM parts. Unfortunately, the trans' design was a little to new and a lot more difficult to work on. The failure rate was almost 100% attempting this form of repair.
So, Honda decided that they had to put a stop to dealers working on the transmissions. They immediately told the dealers that there was only one fix for an SS Auto: Let it completely fail and then replace it.
It turns out that Honda's own remanufacturing division started to have problems as well. They started to see a 40% failure rate on the SS Autos from the Prelude.
So, after a few years of horrible results, they turned to a company that was in the remanufacturing business. These guys were able to reliably rebuild the SS Autos and even offer a decent warranty.
The primary reason Honda has been so successful at ignoring Prelude owners and not dealing with the problem in a timely manner is that there are so few Honda Preludes with the SS Auto transmission. In a typical year Honda sold about 10,000 Preludes (5th Gen), and maybe 40 percent of those sales were SS Autos (4000 cars a year times 5 years of production = 20,000 car total!).
They would never be able to get away with this with a Honda Accord, which sells about 450,000 cars a year. So any problems would be reported by the masses to the NTSA and possibly risk a recall. (Hence the reason the SS Auto extended warranties began...)
Honda's likes to screw the little guys. Unfortunately, it is more like that someone will have to die in an accident related a sudden transmission failure before honda will take care of all SS Auto vehicle owners."
