Heading up to NorCal and everything was all good, all ready for the 350 mile trip up. Me, my friend, my ex and her roommate, trunk full of bags. Coming down from the Angeles Crest my RPM's shoot up to 5k from 2k and my car slams its brakes... I was like what the fuck... I didn't even touch nething... This comes on randomly for the next hour. Finally I was like alright I don't wanna drive with my car like this nemore, so I pull off to the side and let it cool down. After an hour we start driving again and it was all good, then it comes on again. I was like fuck this and pulled off at a Denny's left my 3 friends there after an hour of deciding what was going to happen and finding another friend to come up from LA to pick them up and head up to NorCal. I start driving back down the 200 mile stretch home driving at 70 cruise controlled and the jolt came back but this time it revved up to 7k slammed the brakes revved up to 5k slammed the brakes then revved up to 7k and locked itself in 3rd gear. Called Acura Care and I ended up paying $420 to get my car towed while waiting for the tow truck in the blazing desert sun in the middle of nowhere for 2 hours when they said they'd be there in an hour. Sat in the tow truck for another 4 hours just to get to the dealer to drop it off and ended up walking 8 miles home cuz everybody was too busy or out of town. Fuck today.

 

damn fool... i feel for ya. =/ i was lucky enough to be within driving (dangerous) distance to the acura dealer

 

damn, noone picked you up?! damn, i would've just gotten a taxi. but then, isn't the dealer supposed to give you a loaner? hhmmmmmmm

 

Got to the dealer too late and they were already closed. Plus I'm only 18 so they wouldn't give me one but I finally have a silver TSX sitting on my driveway. Rides real light feels pretty agile but I still miss my CL-S...

 

It's not slamming on the brakes, it's downshifting suddenly! Did you have the oil jet kit recall performed?

 

Nope never got that recall performed. I thot it was my engine braking, well my VSA light went off so I thought it had something to do with my brakes.

 

Nope what you were experiencing was the dreaded downshift to 2nd gear. Lucky it didn't lock down on you! The oil jet kit recall would have prevented that, but now you're getting a new transmission and they have the kits built in.

 

Thank god, I hope this tranny lasts..

 

My cars back! Paid $428.05 for 2 broken engine mounts. Labor was $230. Oh well, just glad to have my car back.

 

They DID replace the transmission, correct?

I think there's something fishy about paying for broken motor mounts after a transmission repeatedly downshifts forcibly. That probably destroys the mounts and that should be just part of the tranny replacement.

 

Seriously... O well, they replaced the transmission with the oil jet recall done. Just happy to have my car back.

 

i would personally go talk to them about the broken motor mounts, especially if your car downshifted down to 2nd gear so much. That would have been quite a burden for our shitty motor mounts. i've never had to pay for broken motor mounts on my car period....go talk to the dealer

 

Really? Which dealer did you go to? Maybe I can complain to Acura Corporate.

 

how did you get them to finally give you a loaner?

im 19 and if i ever need to take a car into the dealer it would be good to know

 

 

My mom came with me to get one.. But they ended up reimbursing me for towing.