I was wondering what did your dealer do for you to fix your rear deck rattle ( the one in the brake light area ).

Do they try to reproduce it, and then say "could not reproduce". Or they know exactly what you are talking about and know how to fix it?

I did number of searches, and have not found an official soultion to the rear deck rattles.
Thanks

 

another fellow russian joins the bord.. privet brato kak delishki

sasha

 

Hi there. I am from acura-cl.com forum. I own 2001 CLS. CL/TL is pretty much same crap, so I figured I can post here as well

tolik

 

privet Tolik.

 

Privet. Funny thing. I live close to russian neibourghood in Philadelphia.... Before Acura 2001 TL/CL come out all russians used to drive Nissan Maxima, so when I got my Acura CL I thought I was different... guess what... 6 month latter entire russian comunity begins buying these cars as well

 

brato i have 7 TL in my family im the only one with TLS, so i feel u there, cause it used to be camry

 

hey everyone im russian too.

 

help me / us out with the rear deck rattle solution if you know it. please

 

privet vsem ryskam

 

rysky007, why do you say "brato" instead of "brat"?

 

slang like brato i donno all the russians here use it,

 

How you like your Acura so far? This is my first expirence with Acura..... rattles is the only thing that drives me nuts... must be american built thing... japan built feels very tight.

 

this is my first acura also, ive had hondas before, and yes, when a car is put together in america ull see the diff compared to japanees... they just dont put the effort here like they do over there, now that its getting cold the rattles are coming out more and more, i have one inside my dash rite under neath my guage cluster and i cant find it and its driving me nuts, but other then taht i love the car, although my changer broke and ive been waiting for a new one now for a week , cant get my cd's out which are demo's from local DJ's adn i have to listen to gay ass kansas radio, which wants to make u wanan commit suicide if u hear Jlo or pink again u konw :0

 

my TLS has been rattling in the passenger seat somwhere.

And recently it started rattling somewhere in the dash.

My Chrysler 300M did not have any rattles (or tranny problems). My Pontiac Grand Prix GTP did not have any rattles either.
Now I get a superior Honda product and it is everything it is not supposed to be?

 

Many people complain that American built cars rattle a lot ... Now I see this is true, Nissan Maxima is much better as far as rattles ( another car in my family ). That's why Nissan Altima sucks compared to Maxima (Altima is made in US, and Maxima is Japan built ). Well, in future it will be hard to find any car built in Japan or Germany.... unless you are willing to pay a lot of money.
I would not be surprised if they start making Maxima in US as well.
You know ML Mercedes? It's made in US. And guess what, its the only mercedes made in US and gets the highest number of complains regarding interior quality, rattles and mechanical problems.

 

Ruski, ther have been many arguments over american cars and japanees every since america began selling european cars on their own terf, but many of the ppl that are working at teh plants puting out cars together, not all of them but many are the still true die hard ford and chevy lovers who would much rather see those cars succeed and then higher more jobs and go work for those companies then put together a good japanees car and see its sales soar, when i worked at BMW, in 96 they bagan assembling the cars here and i noticed that those cars were back in service within weeks with just simple but major assembly problems. Also keep in mind, if u ever take apart a pontica dash or enterior or a acura one, they are similar but yet diff in how they are held together and so forth, and when ur used to putting together one kind its hard to adjust to another, i can go on for a wile but no need, the 300m is a nice car, i wanna say prob a bit higher lever then a TL its on the RL's level, but the older acuras that were assembled in japan ran longer and better simple as that...

 

also keep this in mind, america began importing euro cars and seling them to make money on the import market and trade market between countries, and recently american cars have been pulling and coming out with nicer designs adn so forht, trying to increase their own sales and reduce the sales of euro cars, cause the trade doesnt pay as well as it used to and it makes more sence now to profit from ur own product then someone elses, u see what i mean, thats why the quality has shifted, needless to say, we are behind enemy lines purchasing a opisite side product in the car inudstry, watch what happends, but i see in future time many of the cars over seas wont be availabe here unless special order, a lot less then what we got now, just a feeling....

 

I agree that US is made a step towards improving design/look/perfomance, but somehow quality still sucks... The assembly itself sucks. I think the reason is partly because Japan has life-time employment at their plants, and people over there care about their jobs, so they care about every car like it's their own car.... in US it's not like that, even if the design and parts are japanse, assembly sucks.... people pay less attention

 

U menya u saseda Acura TL. He doesn't take care of it probably because its leased. His foglight has been broken since the last winter. A vobshe, tut vse ruskie jivut.

My seat rattles once in a while, so I move it back and forth and the rattle goes away. Moon-roof also rattles but when the car goes over bumpy road....like my driveway.

Andrey, he says "brato" because you know.....its Kansas....its in a different timezone A u nas tut kak vse krutbIe...bratan ili brat

Sashka

 

what does time zone have to do with how things are said, its brato its a word and its used...

 

rysky007 - you have your own Russian dialect over there, na Kansashine.

Do you have any good Russian restaurants there?

Here in South Florida, there aren't many. I miss NYC in that respect.


Hey I wonder if Acura TL-S is popular in Russia. My friend in Moscow drives a Mark VIII when he feels like driving. When he does not, he is driven by a shauffeur in his Cadillac Limo (older, previously used model)

 

We had a russian restaurant but due to the good ol russian ways of clients and owners it had to be shut down after some ppl got sliced up and problems began, we only have about 7000 russians here, and shortage on russian girls, but its ok, keeps things simple, i miss NY also, and Vegas

 

We have plenty russian restaurants, some of them get shutdown by FBI once in a while. Recently, one restaurant had so called "KGB party". Pretty much night club, they served alchol to minors and was having big drug trading. So it got shutdown by FBI, turned out FBI was monitoring this place for 2 years

 

Lets face the truth,if it involves russians and a place for them to get together , problems will be there, we all know that as sad as it is, its true, i promote clubs out here, and the so called russian mafia, which is just a bunch of fools who think they are something always threten me if i dont let them in for free, their concerned about paing a $3 cover, and they say they are mafia hhmm u konw but thats how it is. sad but true

 

Ok, lets get back to the original question -- what the solution for the rear dash rattle? I would like to know because I too have this problem. I sounds like if I get in the trunk and have my wife drive me around, it shouldn't be too hard to find the rattle because it's pretty loud (at least in my car). I'm just afraid my wife will drive my car into a lake or push it off a cliff while I'm in there.

 

yeah be carefull with that, do it only if u ahve ful trust, and on a good day, i have a rattle inside my steering wheel colum and driving me nuts, i even took the peices off and drove around and still hear it and cant find it

 

I think the offial solution is to stick something between third brake light and window... This supposed to tighten rear dash... also some people inserted some tape in the place where rear dash touches window ( from inside the car ). Also, try hiting your dash pannel... see if it is lose... if its lose perhaps dealer will agree to take it appart and tight up everything... but most likely you will get "Could not reproduce". and you will go home unhappy

 

I just got an 03 type s and reading through the manual and it said to avoid probelms w/ the tl later in its life for like the first 3,000 miles they say dont floor the accelerator or hit it hard and dont mash ur brakes. That could be a reason why ur tl's are always rattling? For right now i gotta drive me tl like a pu$$y. that sucks but its a lot better than what i had before.

 

Are you crazzy?? Rattles and breake in period of the car has no connection. While I do agree that rattles can occur more if you driver through bumps and pot holes... but this is not the case, our generation CL/TL 3.2 are known for rattles in the rear dash and several other places.... people who baby or drive car rough... all complain... Now, for 2003 I don't know, perhaps Acura redesign parts that used to rattle a lot... or your car is to young to rattle... wait till it hits 20K miles..

 

mine is a 03 with 12k had it for 3 months now, dont have any back dash rattles, (knock knock) but many up front ones, when teh dash bends in the cold weather on teh raod.... but in reality every car has rattles unless its all made from leather not plastic and was hand assembled...

 

I'm from Acura-CL.com. Sounds like the same rattle I had on my 2001 CL-S. The problem is the 3rd brake light (above rear deck) is rubbing against the window. Dealer fixed it by putting tape (same tape they use to fix sunroof rattle) on back of brake light. Worked great. No more rattle. Good luck.

 

i think i have the same problem acura TL 2005 have like a little noise from there when my music is up high with sub btw im sasha =)

 

You do realize that you just revived a thread from 2002 right?

 

Its funny how a whole bunch of russians started their own thread.. lol

 

we are friendly =)