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After a little more research (and forgive me if you already know this), i believe this is the correct part number for the 4-door illuminated door sills for your SH:
Light Jewel Gray: 08E12-TY2-220A (color code NH802L). List price: $759
I believe the same part number without the "A" at the end is for the 2-door illuminated sills, and the ones with the "A" at the end is for the 4-door illuminated sills.
List price for the part numbers without the "A" at the end is $360.
^^^ Yes pgeorge, I am aware. There are 2 or 3 vendors who list them for the 4 dr graystone / quartz, but none can verify they actually exist. I think it was planned, and for some reason not fulfilled. I was hoping they were online by the 2017 MY - but with DOZENS or RLXs selling, it may not have been worth it. I have written to several parts vendors and the best I could get was "order them and we will find out when they arrive". <br /><br />The Acura Accessories site do not list them, and customer service say they do not exist. Just very odd. And frankly the cost is silly as I already have them installed (with black trim pieces). Since all the wiring is already done and in place, I am hoping I can just pop off the sills and swap the aluminum inserts. I'd have to get motivated AND bank up some patience.
Thanks for the update George, and i am really happy you are satisfied with the results!
One question: Do you think this change is only from the updated hardware, or from some kind of software update also?
In any case this is great news for all of us!
There were at least two flashes, one for the engine and one for the transmission. There might've been two flashes for the ICE...I've lost count.
You asked what I think, and I'm not sure what to think. :-) They did a hell of a lot.
If you search the Web for DI J Motor VCM rocker arm issues, you'll find that it crosses a wide variety of motors, and different reasons are given for the failure.
If it's noticed early enough, apparently with some of the 290 HP motors that end up in Accords and Odysseys, you just have to change the way some bolts are torqued, and that solves the whole problem.
With the 310 HP motor in the KC2, it's apparently a little more complicated an issue when it happens.
To be honest...the 290 HP DI J Motor in the TLX that I was driving as a loaner had a version of the issue. But in that case they said that was about the best that motor was going to do, and I could tell when the car was on 3 cylinders, pretty easily. In 7th and 8th gears, there would be moments of hesitation as the car decided how many cylinders it wanted to be using, and this would sometimes cause the transmission to change gears, which in turn could cause the car to determine yet again how many cylinders it wanted to be using, which then might cause a hunt for a gear....
So you end up changing your speed by 5 mph, up or down, to give the car a break. :-)
I have to say, though, that I've been told too many times that I notice things that other people just don't care about and couldn't notice even after you tell them what's going on.
... I've been told too many times that I notice things that other people just don't care about and couldn't notice even after you tell them what's going on.
That is because you have achieved what Acura calls - "The Synergy between Man and Machine".
There's not that many ways through there safely, your speed has to be right, and you'd better have either perfect ABS, or know perfectly how to handle trail braking at threshold.
Do you think that we should all be applying these flashes, so we can prevent what happened to you?
I don't really know. I'd feel better if I knew what caused the problem. My car is '14 #139, and it's possible that later cars just wouldn't have this problem...but I don't really know.
I am certain if i call the Service department, they won't have any idea of what i am talking about :-)
If you're experiencing a steady state surge and shifting problem, they will know about the VCM rocker arms alert. If they don't know, they can find it easily.
09-06-2016, 06:08 PM
<br /><br />The Acura Accessories site do not list them, and customer service say they do not exist. Just very odd. And frankly the cost is silly as I already have them installed (with black trim pieces). Since all the wiring is already done and in place, I am hoping I can just pop off the sills and swap the aluminum inserts. I'd have to get motivated AND bank up some patience.
Thanks for sharing that video.
