My wife actually said to me, yesterday, "What is that terrible noise the car is making?". The gearbox is deafening now, so bad that a hard of hearing non driver is concerned. I'll just run it until it gives up the ghost completely, then scrap the car. Don't know what to go for next, but I doubt it will be a Honda.
Read around the various makers forums and you will see that every car has their problems both with cars and dealers, my brother recently bought a secondhand Skoda Ocatvia estate because the Honda Civic estate he wanted was more expensive (they had not long been introduced and second hand ones were rare), he regrets it now because too many VW parts in it and some strange problems, and nobody can tell him why his engine power light keeps coming on - he loves my Civic and should have followed his instinct. His wife has a Civic and all my bro has ever done is replace some brake pads and discs and change the oil and filters - car has never missed a beat.
One of the many quirks of VW group is to use bolts instead of studs to hold wheels on, when you take last bolt out wheel liable to drop and he was so used to using studs to locate and hold wheel while he screwed nuts back on that he was puzzled why it was done that way, also if a stud gets thread stripped you can replace it, if the thread in hub gets stripped what do you do, replace the hub ?
Since pretty much most car makers started using deep groove ball bearing (cheaper, lower friction but not so goof with thrust or side loads) instead of tapered roller bearings (rugged and good with thrust and side loads) to 'reduce drag in an effort to get last 0.001mpg out of car' quite a few cars get wheel bearing and gearbox problems. One of my brothers in law had the gearbox on his VW Golf literally disintegrate a few years ago, and apparently it is not uncommon, cost him a lot to get it repaired.
Maybe Hondachap has a point about lubrication, I use gearbox molyslip and when I trade 53 plate GD in at 120,000 miles gearbox still quiet, the salesman at the dealer asked if box was noisy and test drove it to check and he was happy. Did Honda sort bearings out by 2007 though ?