Oakroadsteve

When running my CLs cold, it runs slightly rough around 20 mph if decelerating from a higher speed or traveling at a consistent 15 to 25 or so. Sometimes when cold and right before the the 3rd gear upshift at 1500 RPM the tach goes up and down a few hundred rpm. It kind of feels like the Intake Air Control Valve is not functioning right (had similar but more pronounced symptoms when it was on the fritz just over a year ago). I had the unit replaced by the thieves at Rick Case Acura who charged me $500 for the 2 minute swap.

I did bring the issue to the forum a few months ago and a member pointed out it was the 3rd gear band in distress. As I have since noted the other issues I am hoping that it is not the dreaded tranny swap. I had one done at 65K by the thieves at RCA under warranty.

Overall the car is slightly cranky when cold and does not run as smoothly as my sons 03 CLp until warmed up some.

I did the full Seafoam treatment as suggested by some of the guru's who contribute to this site and it improved idle and acceleration as a sidebar..

Any ideas from my brothers out there??

99TLhot

same here same here my CL-s is 70k mile and 2nd and 3rd shifted pretty hard espciallly 2nd gear