Blazing GT

I have a 2004 Acura TL, now when the car goes into reverse it starts making a rattling noise along with little more extreme rattling noise when i turn the wheel. The car doesnt make no noise when put into drive. Anybody knows whatsup? Cannot be future tranny problem?

Will Y.

5AT or 6M?

Otherwise, maybe the infamous heat shield adjustment problem.

Bearcat94

Good guess; worth checking.

Blazing GT

5at

Blazing GT

is the heat shield that hole by the battery? because i had removed the cover to put on the fogs, and just put back on teh cover....hopefully that was the problem

LoveMyTL-S

I think they are talking about the heat shield over the cat.

Blazing GT

looks as iff you guys were wrong and it turned out to be the motor mount

Bearcat94

Great! Glad you found it.

Motor Mounts seem to be a typical failure on the both the 2nd and 3rd Gen TL's.

carlos9827

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Did the dealership find this out for you? I'm assuming it would be covered under warranty if still applicable.

JCL622

hmm i didnt know our motor mounts were prone to failure.....

nor did i know about the heatshield thing, i searched but got like 50 pages worth of stuff, can someone sum up the two things?

csmeance

Motor mounts:
The motor mounts on the 3G tl sort of fail early, there is a fluid filled one that may leak and then deteriorate, and then there are the other two which may snap due to excessive torquing of the motor.

Heat-shield
Sheilds heat from the cabin from the exhaust, a loose one will cause some noise.

Bearcat94

There is actually a TSB for one of the Heat Sheilds.

Check TSB 07-026 here:

https://acurazine.com/forums/showthread.php?t=154245


2 of the motoer mounts on my '02 TL-S were identified as needing replacement at ~65,000 miles. No idea how long they may have been broke. New mounts made a BIG difference in feel under acceleration - much more solid.

01tl4tl

my 01 needed the front motor mount at 68k miles
They are often found broken along with passenger side mount, with the transmission failure around that mileage.
Really easy to replace the front mount with the trans already removed!

Many things people think are trans prob are really motor mounts.
The special fluid filled ones for front and rear motor are especially prone- but help keep the car so smooth.
Some early years had a vacuum assist to the mounts- so when you got on the throttle hard the motor mounts tighten up!
When one gets a leak- a slight engine miss from the vac leak occurs--very hard to track down

I hate cars

I was going to say motor mounts. That's classic, one direction it gets better and one it gets worse. Mine is starting to get slightly more vibration when I back up every morning and the engine is cold. Might be time to replace them.

lembowski

iTrader: (1)

I get the same thing, didn't think it was the motor mounts until reading this thread. Looks like I better get those aftermarket motor mounts in the future