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Originally Posted by pianoman41
This is not true. Almost all of the 'replacement' trannies were just that--refurbished ones. They took the guts from failed trannies, replaced the broken parts, installed them in a brand new housing, and used them for the recall replacements. If you read the fine print it's within their rights to use a refurbished one for the warranty service.
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I asked a family friend at my local dealership, who also is the manager of their service department.
Depends on when you had it replaced. Later models were redesign and new. Earlier on they were refurbished, but not now. Its hard to tell when they switched over.
He stated at his dealership now, at least, they don't use refurbished ones since about 2004-05 timeframe. And even then he said they tried not to use refurbished ones. The only time they used them was when the lawsuit came out and acura anouced the recall, everyone was bringing them in and they had no choice but to order refurbished ones.
As for that fine print on the warranty service, he said they doesn't apply to recalled part since the DOT & NHTSA will not allow they to send the same recalled part back on the roads. It has to be redesigned or upgraded to safely resolve the issue in the first place. Thats why Acura first used oil jets in the transmissions that were recalled because they thought that was the initial problem.
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Thats just what he told me in a nut shell about how his dealership works on this recall and many like it. I'm not saying thats what all of them do. And I do stand corrected. They apparently used refirbed ones