I know Honda has had major problems with the auto trannies failing entirely on the six-cylinders, and was hoping things would be OK on my little 4-banger, but no.
Even my previous 1999 Acura CL 3.0 had this problem, not catastrophic failure, just very sticky downshifting, the torque converter sticking shut, or something. Thought it was by design, until a transmission flush at 30k suddenly had the tranny working like you'd expect. For about 90 days. Now my 2004 Accord EX, at about 25k miles, is starting to do the same bad tricks There were small hints early on, before 10k miles, but now it's more frequent and worse. I'll have to see if the dealer will do the flush at the next scheduled maintenance on his own dime (unless it's scheduled, I don't have my book here and don't think it is). Come on Honda, figure out how to make an auto transmission that works.
Josh