2003 ACURA TL Complaints

2003 ACURA TL TYPE-S, 36960 MILES: RECURRING TRANSMISSION SLIPPAGE WHEN SHIFTING BETWEEN 2ND AND 3RD GEAR (AUTOMATIC 5-SPEED TRANSMISSION) AND NEARLY CAUSED CAR CRASH WHEN DRIVING ON HIGHWAY DURING RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC THREE TIMES. CURRENTLY DRIVING A RENTAL WAITING TO HAVE REPLACEMENT TRANSMISSION INSTALLED. ("OIL JET KIT" WAS INSTALLED BY DEALER 2 MONTHS AGO IN RESPONSE TO RECENT RECALL BY ACURA.)*AK

VEHICLE STALLED WHILE DRIVING. CONSUMER PULLED VEHICLE OFF THE ROAD. CONSUMER WAS UNABLE TO RESTART THE VEHICLE, AND IT WAS TOWED TO THE DEALERSHIP. THE DEALERSHIP INSPECTED VEHICLE THREE TIMES, BUT WAS UNABLE TO FIX IT. *AK

RECALL WAS FOUND ON THE INTERNET. AFTER CONTACTING THE MANUFACTURER ABOUT NOT RECEIVING RECALL LETTER, CONSUMER WAS TOLD THEY COULD NOT SEND HIM THE LETTER AGAIN, THEIR OBLIGATION WAS FULFILLED WITH RECALL 04-V176000 CONCENING TRANSMISSION FAILURE. HOWEVER, TRANSMISSION WAS STILL DEFECTIVE. *AK

ACURA 2003 TL TRANSMISSION DEFECT. FIRST FAILURE TRANSMISSION LOCKED UP AT SPEED OF 70 MPH HAPPENED 6 TIMES . TRANSMISSION REPLACED.SECOND FAILURE TRANSMISSION LOCKED UP GOING 55 CAR FOLLOWING BEHIND ME CRASHED INTO ME . SIGNIFIGANT INJURIE'S RESULTED FROM THIS CRASH THAT INVOLVED 3 VEHICLES.*AK I HAVE REPORTED THIS INFO TO "THIS" SITE 3 TIMES AND GO BACK TO FIND MY SUBMISSION AND IT MYSTERIOUSLY DISSAPEARS! HONDA ACURA'S RECENT SAFETY RECALL FOR THIS TRANSMISSION DEFECT KEEPS CLAIMING THERE ARE NO CRASHES OR INJURYS' AS A RESULT OF THIS DEFECT . THIS IS FALSE !!!! I KNOW OF ATLEAST 3 OTHER INCIDENCES THAT INVOLVE INJURY'S DUE TO THE SEVERE DEFECT THAT CAUSES THE TRANSMISSION TO LOCK UP WITH OUT WARNING!

I BROUGHT FRIST TL IN 2002 AND AT 2003 THE CAR'S TRANSMISSION BROKE AND I TRADED THE TL AND BOUGHT NEW 03 TL TYPE-S IN 2003. THEN JULY OF 2004, THE TRANSMISSION BROKE AGAIN WITH MY NEW 03TL AGAIN. I ALMOST GOT ACCIDENT BECASE THE CAR JUST SHIFT IT'S GEAR ITSELF. *AK

CAR WAS DRIVEN ON THE INTERSTATE HIGHWAY AND SUDDEN TRANSMISSION FAILURE. CAR SURGE AND TRANSMISSION WENT OUT, NO SHIFTING IN ANY GEAR AT ALL. MIL CHECK ENGINE LIGHT COMES ON. OWNED TO THE DEALERSHIP AND DIAGNOSIS SHOW TRANNY FAILURE. NEW TRANSMISSION IS REPLACED. *AK

BUCKING AND FRONT WHEELS LOCKED UP MOMENTARILY. HIGHWAY SPEEDS, VERY DANGEROUS. 2003 ACURA AND NOW THE DEALERS SAYS THEY WILL REPLACE THE TRANSMISSION. I WAS LIED TO WHEN I BOUGHT THIS CAR, DEALER SAID ALL 2003'S WERE NOT INFLICTED. NOW I FOUND OUT DIFFERENT. MY EXPERIENCE WAS SCARY. RECALL NOW!*AK

WHILE DRIVING OUR 2003 TL-S ON THE HWY, THE CAR SUDDENLY VIOLENTLY JERKED AND THE TRANSMISSION SEEMED TO BE FAILING. SURE ENOUGH I HAD THE CAR TOWED TO THE DEALER WHO INFORMED ME THAT THE TRANSMISSION NEEDS TO BE REPLACED. I AM EXTREMELY UPSET THAT MY PRE-OWNED VEHICLE WITH ONLY 22000 MILES HAS TO HAVE THE TRANSMISSION REPLACED. THE CAR WAS VERY DANGEROUS AND COULD HAVE CAUSED AN ACCIDENT WITH THE WAY IT WAS CAUSING WHIPLASH. THE COMPANY SHOULD DO A RECALL ON THE TRANSMISSION NOT JUST AN EXTENSION OF THE WARRANTY. SO FAR WE HAVE EXPERIENCED MANY OF THE COMPLAINTS LISTED ON THE NHTSA WEBSITE. WE HAVE HAD THE TIRE SIDEWALL BULGE, WHICH I HAD TO PAY TO HAVE THE NEW TIRE REPLACED ONCE IT BLEW OUT ON THE HWY. WE HAD TO HAVE THE RADIO MISSFIRE FIXED AND NOW THE TRANSMISSION REPLACED WITHIN THE LAST 6 MONTHS. THIS CAR IS DEFINITELY NOT RELIABLE.*AK

I OWN A 2003 ACURA TL TYPE S. AT 18,434 MILES, THE TRANSMISSION FAILED. IT WAS REPLACED, BUT THIS TRANSMISSION IS EXHIBITING THE SAME SYMPTOMS THE ORIGINAL TRANSMISSION DID BEFORE IT FAILED. THE SYMPTOMS ARE HESITATION AND JERKING AT HIGHWAY SPEEDS. SOME ACURA TL OWNERS WERE GIVEN AN EXTENDED DRIVETRAIN WARRANTY. I WAS TOLD MINE WAS NOT PART OF THAT OFFERING EVEN AFTER MY TRANSMISSION FAILED, SO I AM NOT COVERED BY THE WARRANTY. BASED ON THE FACT THAT THE REPLACEMENT TRANSMISSION IS HAVING THE SAME PROBLEMS, IN ADDITION TO ALL OF THE ACURA TL OWNERS WHO HAVE HAD TWO AND THREE REPLACEMENT TRANSMISSIONS, I FEEL THERE SHOULD BE A RECALL FOR THESE TRANSMISSIONS. *AK

I AM A CLAIM REPRESENTATIVE FOR NATIONWIDE INSURANCE. OUR INSURED, JOHN MIHOLIC'S SON, WAS DRIVING THE 2003 ACURA 3.2TL AT NIGHT. HE LOST CONTROL OF THE VEHICLE AND STRUCK THE RIGHT FRONT END OF HIS VEHICLE. A CAUSE AND ORIGIN REPORT CONDUCTED BY LANGE TECHNICAL SERVICE INDICATED THAT DUE TO THE IMPACT, THE IGNITION OF COMBUSTIBLE MATERIALS FORM THE HIGH INTENSITY HEAD LAMP BULB THAT WAS DISPLACED CAUSED THE FIRE WHICH TOTALED OUT THE VEHICLE. *JB