jupitersolo

I just got back from a 1640 mile trip, me, wife and son. Full trunk and picked up father in law at one point. Average over 30 mph on the highway going 75-80.

Northern Va to Charlotte, NC to Atlanta Ga, back to Charlotte then back home. Four days driving over eights days. This trip put it over 24K in the 25 months.

It was just a great trip, even with the full load, when I stepped on the gas it moved. And when we were staying in Charlotte, hit a few of the backroads. Was a little fun, nothing crazy, but fun.

I did remember to slow down at mile marker 159 on 81 south just north of Salem, Va. was giving 79 in a 65 two years ago. Only saw three troopers in any state waiting to catch speeders.

Can't wait for more trips like this, the TL was made for them.

ballinfizzle89

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Good to hear that

2008 Acura TL

I don't understand this love thang. It's only a car. Won't be your first, and sure as hell won't be your last.

jupitersolo

it is the... e x p e r i e n c e , no not my first car, it's my 12th. But when you drop 34K on a car and two years later you still get giddy driving it, IT FEELS EFFING GOOD!

sifuacura

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i know the feeling. my car is in the shop for 4 days now getting a custom dvd player installed and i miss it alot..even though im driving a bmw 745 the last 4 days...just still miss it

Ni$h21

idk, personally imma big boy, i can't be in the TL doing a monotonous 80 up and down I-10 or I-75 : i usually take the sienna for stuff like that, tons of room and extremely comofortable =D

trancemission

couldnt agree with you more. thats what separates the enthusiast from the regulars...

I still after two years walk away from mine and look back at it.

just did it today, well thats only because I spent hours waxing it...

ballinfizzle89

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haha yeah, best feeling ever. Especcially when you look back at it like 4 times and then RIGHT when you enter the grocery store through the glass doors

darksom1

Welcome back man! (Should've let me use your tripod while you were gone though!)

jupitersolo

Thanks, LOL, I had ALL of my equipment with me. I took over 1000 pictures. Now the fun of PP'ing them.

ballinfizzle89

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No wonder your trunk was full..

rimz

i'm approaching the two year mark and look back at least 2-3 times after walking away from it...only my third car, but the first one to give me a neackache...

shooter

LOL ! You can say that again .... I am still excited about driving the TL every time I lay eyes on it ....

MR1

I'm at 3.5 years and 42k miles. I have had many cars. This one best meets most of my automotive wants and needs like it did on day one. So far, can't think of anything else I want to spend car money on at this time.

Still the best combination of everything for me.

stillhere153

iTrader: (1)

I am just shy of 1 year... I took mine on the longest trip of its life this past week... 115miles from New York, NY to Groton, CT.... and 115miles back the other direction.... those were the best 230miles I have ever driven... it was raining cats and dogs... and I am glad I bought Falken 912.... Although I had other things to worry about like sucking up water in my CAI Vent ( ) the car is just a handling marvel... the steering wheel is just sooooo comfortable... this is my 4th car... I am obsessed and I am not going to say I am not... when I park, I do the full 360 walk around fold my mirrors in and beep the alarm 3 times... MAJOR OCD....

lastly... I LOVE MY NBP QUEEN... it was love at first sight... and continues to be

trancemission

this is exactly why Im going to keep this car for as long as I can.

I think it will be sometime before this stops turning heads..

darksom1

^ Yup...though my car is not just a head turner, it's a body turner -slash- finger pointer -slash- head turner!!

I think I proposed to her last night...maybe I should get her to sign a pre-nup though in case I leave her for a 4G, then I can have all of my stuff back!

Shalooby

Welcome back. Glad the trip went so well. Now let's see some pics!!

Yeah, I still do the "look back" too. Sometimes I'll even stop and stare. Definately identifies the enthusiast from the regulars.
I had a brand new MDX as a loaner for a few days. It was okay but I couldn't wait to give it back. The TL is just so damn nice.

Off to go wash it now. F*ing birds!!!!

omnuts

^ lol.. 1.75 yrs, ~29k on it.. nor regrets, was planning on a trade..but hell no..just will keep adding mods instead..

trancemission

she will never forgive you if you leave her, you know that...

Bring her down to dallas, Ill take care of her

TL1999

i have my for 3 years and still loving my baby so i know how you feel....

Shalooby

Same time but I beat your mileage. Just about to turn 36K.

Will Y.

x 2 (except 32K miles)
My lease will be up towards the end of the year, but I'm considering buying the car out if the usual suspects (335i, G35, Type-S, etc.) aren't exponentially better.

SouthernBoy

It's a gearhead thing. If you're not one, it's easy to see how you wouldn't understand. And yep.. I'm a gearhead.

SouthernBoy

My youngest daughter and her husband have suggested that they would like to move to Charlotte. What are you thoughts about that area? They currently live in western Prince William county in a new single family they had built last year.

As for the TL and long trips, absolutely. My '04 manual just continues to keep putting a smile on my face. The wife and I are going to be taking a spring vacation road trip in 5 weeks in her '05 automatic TL (we use mine for the late summer trip). We'll put around 1200 miles on it during that run with a mixture of interstate highway and two and four lane state roads. Then some in town use. We had a set of Goodyear F1 Eagles installed last fall so this will be the first long trip on those tires.

Glad to see you really enjoyed your trip!

jupitersolo

Charlotte is a very nice area, north of it on I-77 is still growing like crazy, well everywhere (but I only know north of). If we could, I think we would pack up and go. My F-I-L lives in Davidson, the college town, just outside of it now. The area is busy busy morning and evening rush and weekends, but turns to a ghost town when things are still going here.

Charlotte is a banking city, that's what is runs on, with what is going on right now, there is some talk about things getting hard it that area. But the retire Chairman of BoA thinks that there is enough other companies in the area not to let it happen, just saw him on a newscast this past week.

House wise you can get more down there than up still, but they do have their areas where it matches.

It think public school wise they're behind us here.

Have fun on your trip.

SouthernBoy

Thanks for the quick getback. We are headed to South Carolina where we have been going for quite a long time. Most likely when I retire and we sell our home up here, we will move down to South Carolina. I have too much Southern in me and this area lost that heritage quite some time ago. Got to get back to it and the warmer weather. If I never saw winter again, I wouldn't miss it.