whats up everyone i just bought a 1999 tl with 43k from the oringal owner for 12,700 in mint condition....i feel i got a pretty good deal....but anyway i see everyone saying that they have trammy problems but anyway the person i got the car from gave me a letter from acura he got saying that acura has extended the warrenty on all 99 tl"s for 7 years or 100k ,because of the amount of trannys that were going ....anyone else get this letter

 

All the 99's have extended warranties on the transmission, but we seem to have a lower rate of failure anyway.

 

Congrats.

That price is very good and yeah the miles and price plus warranty is all good.

What is the color?

What did you drive before?

peace

 

the color is heather mist....i had a 1998 mitsu gsx before this

 

Hey, welcome!
You got a great car. Mine is a 99 TL also, I'm the orig. owner, it is still on its orig. trans, I owned this car for 5+yrs /61k miles and still counting. not a single problem. I hope you have the same luck as me.

 

congrats...post pics when you can!

 

Oh actually, I did have one problem with my car, the HeadUnit wouldn't read CDRs, but I had that fixed underwarranty.

 

thanks alot guys....i will post pics when i get a chance to take some....hzm82 how did u make ur headlights look all clear like that

 

It's called clear corners - the headlight assembly is taken out and stuck into an oven to loosen the glue. Then you pry it open and take out the amber reflector. Reverse step would be to use silicon (?) glue to put it all back together again, and reinstall the headlight assembly. Simple concept, semi-difficult process to do correctly (I've seen lots of botched jobs).

 

What pat said, most people have problem with the headlights fogging up after they clear it. So far so good for me, it's my 3rd try.

 

It better be good after your 3rd try!

 

i was wondering hzm82 how you got your headunit to read CDRs..i have a silver 99 3.2 TL and ive been trying to get mine to read CDRs for awhile now. if you can help me that will be great thanks!

 

 

You got a GREAT deal on your ride. I dont even want to tell you what I spent on mine 2 yrs. ago with 31k on the clock. I'm sure you already feel good enough about what you spent.


HZM82--is it just a coincidence, or were our cars seperated at birth? (Minus the rims and drop)

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lol Love my 99..........I believe all 99 TLs were seperated at birth.

PS. You can't hotlink a pic that is on your harddrive. It needs to be on the web.

 

I just went to the dealer and complained. Within a week they had a brand new replacement HU and replaced everything under warranty. There are plenty of threads on this topic. Just do a search. From the results I seen 4/5 people who had their HU replaced had a better working HU that read CDRs.

 

hey 99hmtl...good choice on cars, I have the exact same one lol. Well you'll love the car and btw, welcome to the board!!

 

Yes because they use a different trasmission. The 99 TL uses a 4spd transmission.

The 00 and up have water/coolant cooled transmissions(water runs in passages inside the transmission), while ours (99) the actual transmission fluid runs through the bottom of the radiator(seperate section) to cool the fluid.