oblio98

Well, it is hard to believe that it has been a year since I first got the car and posted the pictures to this forum. It has been 30,000 miles of fun and $5K or so of mods.

The only bummer has been that the tranny crapped out. That really altered my plan for this car. I had hoped to take it over 200,000 miles, but now I am looking forward to a '04 TL-S or maybe even an alternative. It was very discouraging to hear that there are '03 owners with bad trannys already.

I stopped by the dealer to schedule the 30k checkup, and there were 2 TL-S's in for tranny R&R!!!.

UGH!

Really brings me down, because I REALLY LOVE THIS CAR!!!!!

:-jon

2K2SilverTL-S

It's almost going to be my car's 1 year birthday as well....21,000 miles and no tranny replacement yet....thank God!!!!
I wish you the best of luck on your new tranny.

badazzTL

:wow: you guys drive ur cars a lot!! i've had my 00' for just about 3 years and just hit 20300 miles. how many miles per day do you drive?!?

rock

Happy Birthday to your car, but sorry to hear of the tranny situation. My TLS is 9 months old and so far so good.

SoundSpeed

Happy birthday. The whole tranny situation is a bummer, but it is a warranty issue and it just mattered that you enjoyed your car for the time you have had it.

rmarin2

April 2 will be my cars 1st birthday and will have had its new tranny for 3 months. So far so good. (knock on wood)

yee

Woo Hoo! me too!!
it's been exactly 1 year with 29,000 miles...
small rattles but problem free otherwise, yeah!!!!
oh..but alot of chips from highway and stuff though...

MUGENUA

mines goign to be exactly 1 yr tomorrow with 19,300 miles.

TypeSAcura

Congrats man.

oblio98 don't be upset on the tranny thing. Like you said, you are looking forward to the 2004 tls. hopefully acura will get the tranny right by then, just trade up then .

d_rock69

It's nice to know that I am not the only one who put over 20K miles on my car in a year (20,190 to be exact). Of course my tranny has started to misbehave (red-lining for no apparent reason), so I may be next :o(

Mr Hyde

Hit my one year mark as well, to date 14,400 miles and no tranny problems(knock on wood).

Smelly

Hit my 1 year mark today with 23,400 miles, with 1 blown tranny. Can't believe that's it's already a year old...still feels like a new car to me.

Moo

Happy birthday!!!

Mine is coming up at the end of April. I have 12,400 miles and no serious problem yet. I hope it stays that way.

lonny

Mine is 1 yr old today and I have 15,800 miles on it.

Monte TLS,MAX

A year last month with 19,500 and also a blown tranny at 16,000!

TypeSDragon

Mines will be 1 year on April 9, 20K miles. So far so good! Just some minor rattles!

oracion

Only one year and you already have 30K miles? That's amazing.

chestertls

Mine just hit one year with 27,000 fun miles, 2 transmissions, lots of road chips, and a new ashtray.

oblio98

TWO TRANNIES?? On your TL-S? What is your VIN number, I'll add you to the list.

:-jon

SergeyM

1 year today, 15K miles. No tranny problem, no paint chips, no mods, headlights stolen last May. Plan on trading it next week though. Cannot live with headlights issue and transmission scare anymore.

RedLined

Damn Jon, it looks like he's going to give me a run for my money!

I hear you though. I too thought I'd keep this car "forever". But I'm very disappointed w/ the tranny and other problems. I may just be paranoid but it seems my tranny is starting to "hiccup" again. The last time I said "maybe I'm just paranoid but..." my tranny went out a few weeks later. I hit 36000 miles last week, almost 10000 miles since my last tranny replacement and right in the "zone" for good trannies gone bad. I hope this time I really am just being paranoid.

I don't know. Maybe I'd be happy if the tranny went out again. 3 new trannies in a year (mine will be a year old 4/24/02) and 40000 miles. About 60 days in the shop over that time. I think I'd be happy to just get rid of the car. I think I'd have a pretty air-tight lemon law case. An S4 has been looking tempting these days.

RUF87

Congrats!

Mine is 1 yr on 3/30 and I have 10,300 on it.

Those that have read some of my posts know that I'm an old hot rodder and drag racer and my TLS has earned its red line stripes.

And, no tranny problems so far and it still can bark a nice second gear when I want it to. (bark - that's break the tires loose when shift from one gear to the next - for you young'uns.)

RUF