Zapata

http://www.acura-tl.com/forum/showth...threadid=29554

FYI: I just took my '02 TL-S into McDavid Acura (Plano, TX) today for routine maintenance and happened to talk with a mechanic regarding the transmission problems I've read about on the TL-S forum (mine hasn't acted up yet with 11k).

Both the service writer and mechanic acknowledged the problem and I asked if there was anything preventative I could do, such as get the fluid changed, etc. The mechanic said he didn't believe the failures had anything to do with the fluid but he suspected the clutch material was disintegrating, plugging up the tranny valves, etc. He said Acura won't let the dealers tear into the trannys to find out why; they just unbolt 'em and send 'em in for exchange.

Mike

Thanks for the update.

Zapata

woops, my apologies mike i keep forgetting that we have a seperate section for tranny information

EricL

IMO -- just one guinea pig with a great fluid analysis --done on a trashed (or soon to be trashed) tranny -- could possibly reveal all the info needed to make a pretty good guess of what is getting “toasted” in the transmission…