Vtec_Sheikhani

First off i would like to introduce my self, my name is Husain I live in the Chicagoland area i am new to TL's but not new to Honda/Acura. Ive owned Hondas my whole life currently drive a 06 Accord v6 auto, my family has all hondas and acuras tsx, civic, accord, etc love hondas and always will. So heres my story I purchased a 03 Tl type s w/ navi with 119k from a car salesman from my work and im driving it home drove perfectly fine when i test drove it he said hes had no issues for the 3 years hes owned it. It being just my luck the cv axle breaks at a red light after driving less than 5 miles. I had the car towed to our mechanic and just waiting on the oem parts from delray. I will post pics up asap.

DanTL-S

Sorry to hear man. If it helps..my transmission broke on the freeway :/

LongRX7

That sucks, and is unfortunate. Hopefully ownership gets better after this. Knock on wood...knock knock.

Vtec_Sheikhani

updated with pics of car before it broke lol

3.2TLc

Nice enough car, but to have it break 5 miles after buying it.......?
I think that anyone who had responsible driven the car during the previous three years would've noticed something abnormal !!!!

IMO, the guy owes ya ....cv axles normally last longer than 119k and don't just break within 5 miles due to bad luck !!!!!

Vtec_Sheikhani

yeah I know i tried getting him to fix it but he offered to pay for partial of the repair costs which is alright. BTW does anyone know what lip kit that is on the car? the first owner had it put on so i have no idea if its OEM aftermarket or what? any help would be greatly appreciated

Mahusay3g

A broken axle isn't a big deal man. Could have been the transmission.

Skirmich

Yah dont sweat it Dude! AXLEs are easy to replace and not THAT Expensive! I was waiting to read: "Drove it 5 Min, Trans would not shift into 2nd" that would have been way wayyyy worse.

At least you get full body kit and a great spoiler replacement! other goodies inside?

Vtec_Sheikhani

It has the black leather, with the navi, and bose system. Thinking of possibly downloading my own navi update, anyone have any success with this method rather than buying a navi disc from the dealer? Im thinking of getting it tuned up while its in the shop the timing belt and water pump was done at approx 95k by the 2nd owner. According to the guy i bought the car from the owner before him was a real stickler and had everything maintained at the dealer. Carfax reads that the tranny was replaced at the dealer around 65k miles

QueenCityTLS

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Looks like the OEM lip kit. If it is, you are lucky. Good thing you know about the timing belt being done. Just had to get mine done bc my tensioner was about to break. I got very lucky it was making an annoying sound at 2000 rpms so I knew something was wrong. WELCOME TO AZINE!

MilwaukeeDave

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Sucks that happened. If its a Chicago car I'm sure it was driven hard cause everytime one of you guys are up here you're driving like maniacs!

HairyMonkey019

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sell the sun roof spoiler for 30$ and start modding!!!!
it will make you feel better.

Vtec_Sheikhani

Hahaha yeah we do drive pretty hard around here esp in the city. Ive been known to have a heavy foot. Im glad the timing belt was done, i have yet to do it on my 7th gen Accord. UPDATE ON CAR The CV axle is finally arriving monday (today) should hopefully be getting the car back today if all goes well also thinking of replacing the spark plugs with NGK Iridium lx.

Vtec_Sheikhani

Heres some pics of my Accord.








Yeah i know these are crappy phone pics there from my iphone

3.2TLc

Nice Accord "EX". It should serve ya well being an '06 model. Their tranny's were considerably improved over the '03>'05 Accords. Many 'Ziners presently use the '06>'07 tranny from the Accord V-6 for replacing their failing 2nd gen TL's tranny.

The body styling reminds me somewhat of my old '95 Accord. At least ya don't have the "Buick" styled tail-lights like the '03, ha, hah !

Vtec_Sheikhani

Thanks its actually a LX but i got leather installed (it had cloth) and yeah so so ive heard about the 06-07 trannys are much better im only on my 2nd one. I love the 06-07 styling took a long time to find the right one but still not the exact one i wanted but its ok got a helluva deal on it couldnt pass it up.