2011 ACURA TSX Complaints

TAKATA RECALL - CALLED SEVERAL DEALERS, NO PARTS AVAILABLE TO ORDER, NO TIME LINE GIVEN, NO RENTAL CAR PROVIDED, WAS INSTRUCTED NOT TO DRIVE WITH PASSENGERS. ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS!

TL* TAKATA RECALL. THE CONTACT OWNS A 2011 ACURA TSX. THE CONTACT RECEIVED NOTIFICATION OF NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 16V346000 (AIR BAGS); HOWEVER, THE PARTS FOR THE RECALL REPAIR WERE NOT AVAILABLE. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE MANUFACTURER EXCEEDED A REASONABLE AMOUNT OF TIME FOR THE RECALL REPAIR. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE ISSUE. THE VIN WAS INVALID. THE CONTACT HAD NOT EXPERIENCED A FAILURE. VIN TOOL CONFIRMS PARTS NOT AVAILABLE.

IN FREEZING TEMPERATURES, MY CAR HAS AN EXTREMELY HARD BRAKE PETAL (IT SEEMS LIKE THERE IS NO POWER ASSIST)AND WILL NOT STOP THE CAR. AS SOON AS CAR WARMS UP THE BRAKE PETAL FEEL COMES BACK AND BRAKING RETURNS TO NORMAL. I HAVE HAD THIS HAPPEN 3 TIMES DURING THE DEAD FREEZING COLD TEMPERATURES AND WENT TO APPLY MY BRAKES AND I HAD NOTHING TO STOP MY CAR. I WAS ABLE AT EACH ONE OF THOSE MOMENTS IN TIME TO MOVE TO ANOTHER LANE TO AVOID HITTING A CAR IN FRONT OF ME. IT WAS VERY SCARY TO HAVE THIS HAPPEN, AND IT MADE ME PARK MY CAR THAT I PAID OVER 20K IN THE GARAGE OF MY HOME UNTIL THE WARMER WEATHER HIT NEW ENGLAND. I COULDN'T OF BEEN MORE ANGRY AS I BOUGHT THE CAR TO DRIVE YEAR ROUND. I CONTACTED ACURA OF AUBURN TO FILE COMPLAINT TO TRY TO FIND PARTS TO REPAIR THIS, AND THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO LOCATE THESE PARTS AND WERE OF NO HELP AT ALL. THIS PARTICULAR ISSUE SHOULD BE ON A RECALL LIST OF REPAIRS TO BE DONE. THIS IS A SAFETY PROBLEM AND SHOULD BE ADDRESSED ACCORDINGLY. I HAVE RESEARCHED THIS ONLINE AND HAVE READ OTHER OWNERS COMPLAINTS OF THE SAME MAKE AND MODEL AND THEY HAVE RECEIVED NO REMEDY TO THIS ISSUE AS WELL. THEY WERE NOT AS FORTUNATE AS I WAS TO BE ABLE TO AVOID AN ACCIDENT AS THEY HAD PHOTOS OF THEIR VEHICLES INVOLVED IN AN ACCCIDENT SITUATION DUE TO THIS BRAKING PROBLEM. I HOPE THIS IS LOOKED AT AND A REMEDY TO THIS SITUATION IS OFFERED TO ALL ACURA OWNERS DEALING WITH THE SAME ISSUE AS MYSELF BY THE WINTER MONTHS.

ON THREE OCCASIONS 2011 ACURA TSX BREAKS HAVE FAILED WHILE DRIVING, CAUSING ME TO HAVE TO USE MY EMERGENCY BREAK IN ORDER TO AVOID ACCIDENT. I ATTEMPTED TO SLOW DOWN WHILE GOING OFF THE HIGHWAY EXIT AND PUSHED ON BREAKS ONLY TO FIND THE BREAK PEDAL WAS EXTREMELY STIFF AND WOULD NOT MOVE NO MATTER HOW HARD I PUSHED ON IT... AFTER FEW MINUTES, THE BREAKS STARTED WORKING NORMALLY. THE VEHICLE WAS PRE-WARMED FOR AT LEAST 15 MIN BEFORE DRIVING EVERY TIME. THE WEATHER TEMPERATURES ON ALL THREE OCCASIONS WERE BELOW 10 DEGREES F.THERE ARE MULTIPLE ACURA'S OWNERS ALREADY EXPERIENCING THIS HORRIFIC ISSUE. ACURA NEEDS TO ACKNOWLEDGE THIS PROBLEM AND ISSUE A RECALL ON THESE VEHICLES ASAP. WHAT PROVE DO YOU NEED? YOU WANT TO WAIT UNTIL PEOPLE START GETTING INTO ACCIDENTS AND DYE BECAUSE OF BRAKE FAILURE IN THEIR CARS? THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE! PLEASE ISSUE A RECALL ON ACURA VEHICLES.

CONTINUING PROBLEM SINCE PURCHASE. AT SLOW SPEED IN TRAFFIC OR TURNING, PRESS ACCELERATOR ACTS AS THOUGH IT IS NOT GETTING GAS, PRESS FURTHER FOR ACCELERATION CAR JERKS AND PROCEEDS. DEALER HAS RESET COMPUTER TWICE, RUNS GOOD FOR COUPLE DAYS THEN BACK TO ITS OLD HABITS. DEALER TEST DROVE VEHICLE, CLAIMS THEY CAN'T FIND A PROBLEM, DEALER REFUSES TO CHECK FURTHER.

WHILE TURNING LEFT MY CAR WAS STRUCK HEAD ON BY ANOTHER VEHICLE SUDDENLY EMERGING FROM BEHIND A SNOWBANK AND TURNING LEFT FROM THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION. AIR BAGS DEPLOYED. PASSENGER BEHIND THE DRIVER HIT HER HEAD ON THE SEAT IN FRONT OF HER DESPITE HAVING HER SEATBELT FASTENED, AND WAS MILDLY CONCUSSED. THINKING THE PROBLEM WAS WITH THE SEATBELT PRE-TENSIONING SYSTEM. *JS

BACKING CAR IN GARAGE WHEN UNINTENDED ACCELERATION ( MECHANICAL ). VEHICLE HIT BACK WALL CAUSING EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO HOME AND VEHICLE. *TR