So @boobear luck had rubbed off. Daughter was on the way to Austin and 3 miles into it, her car wouldn't go over 20 mph. Told her to go back home, it made it 2 miles back (notice the discrepancy) before the forward gears totally gave out. So waiting on AAA and a tow now. 4951
Well it sounded like gravel in the tranny in reverse, forward didn't make any noise, other than the engine reving.The fluid was up in the tranny, but it wasn't red, and it was gritty. 4951
Seems the 01 Honda civic auto-tranny was a bad one. Google has many, many complaints on them going out.And Honda didn't do anything about it.Interesting that. 4951