Hey all,

Anyone else experienced this?

My '02 TLS has about 18K miles on it. I've been driving it pretty hard recently, seeing as I put on a good 4K in just this past month :wow:. I've never driven the car this hard before, pushing it to 100 mph on a regular basis and accelerating rapidly. However, I almost never jump off the line at stoplights. The rapid accelerations are always on the highway.

Anyhow, I think I've finally hurt the poor thing. The lurching usually happens after a cold start in the morning. When I'm at the light in front of my house, I can feel it push against the brakes on regular intervals. Instead of a constant pressure against the brakes, it pushes, then relents, pushes, and relents, and so on.

Is this normal for a car with 18K on it? Or am I killing it by driving it so much? Oh yea, I also gave the car a 15K service the day before I moved to So Cal. It was given a clean bill of health.

 

Happens to me too. I think it's just normal. My car has less than 4k miles on it.

Not too annoying, but noticible.

 

Definitely annoying . My problem is that I've never felt it do that before.

 

This is very common, and unfortunately normal. Everytime the compressor kicks on the car will kind of jump forward. When I'm using the A/C I keep my foot harder on the brake then usual just as a precaution.

 

I've felt it when the compressor kicks in, but that usually results in only one (albeit LARGE) jump. The jumps I'm feeling are in a regular interval and feels like someone is pushing the car forward.

But then again, I could be wrong about the compressor :o

 

It always happens to me at stop lights. I get so pissed becuase I think someone hit my car from behind. It's a decent jerk forward that I usually get. Scares the hell out of me every time. =(