crazydrum

Do you own a Acura TL 2004 or 2005 spd manual transmission ?

I need some survey information to decide which way to go with my existing car 2004 TL 6 speed which I enjoy driving except for a couple of problems. If you can respond to the problems I am having to see if I replace the vehicle with 2005 TL 6spd manual or 2005 TL automatic ( UGH , i HATE doing that) OR for another car all together.

1. From day 1, in June 2004, this car has had the good old squealing metal to metal loud sound when the BREMBO brakes are applied before a complete stop. ( The noise is louder than the music at volume 35 with windows closed---pretty loud hey) .
2. It has been in the shop a total 7 times for this issue .
3. They UPGRADED the pads per sERVICE BULLETIN 04-119 Nov.2004. And it still continued to squeal as loud.
4. 5 weeks later after the upgrade, I lost my brakes due to the right caliper failing ( falling off after becoming unthreaded ) for two days and the right alloy wheel
had chunks of metal removed due to the failure.
5. They fixed the car and asked t balance it and they told me they did. I noticed when I got home, the right wheel had mass weights internally added all over the place and than noticed the chunks of metal removed from the caliper failure.
6. Took it back again, and they did replace the wheel amd rebalance. Hey , I am the quality control manager and offer my free time to inspect their work !!!! this is getting old.
7. LEATHER SEATS are puckering in 3 out of 4 .
8. Vibration in the car 40-55 mph wheN they do not rebalance the tires after rotations and FROM just good old flatspots with the Turanza's EL42.
9. I talked to national repair center and asked to call dealer to fix it right and they had no answer since the service bulletin never worked.
10. I think the 2004 Brembo DESIGN is defected and engineers at ACura HAVE not fixed it.
I do not want to exchange one problem for another .
SO ANY INFORMATION WILL HELP ME AND OTHERS IF YOU ARE HAVING OR START HAVING PROBLEMS with the brakes, leather seats , or vibrations.
I have only 10500 miles on the car.
I hope the 2005 TL 6spd does not have these problems.

THANKS,
The Crazydrummer of PA