Dutchy

In certain affected vehicles equipped with 9-speed automatic transmissions, manufacturing errors may prevent the “Park" gear from engaging. If the “Park” gear fails to engage and the driver does not use the electric parking brake, the vehicle may roll away after the brake pedal is released, increasing the risk of an accident.

ECRD

When did this "recall" come out and do you have pics or print out of this?

Dutchy

This letter was just released to Canadian dealers. No bulletin yet.
About 11,000 units affected in North America (2,000 Canadian)

tlxsteve

How reliable is this report?

I don't see it posted anywhere online or NHTSA.

Even under honda.com/recalls or owners.acura.com.

weather

^^ Dutchy works for a Honda dealership in Canada so I would trust his posts.

tlxsteve

Just wanted to make sure before I pull the fire alarm.

:fire: :alarm:

Ian Andrews

Acura has already identified the vehicles involved and will perform an inspection of the tranny. If it fails the inspection a new tranny will be installed. Use your hand brake and all is well.

ostrich

Oh well, I guess it's just as well that I have been pushing the parking brake button all this time, in order to eliminate that crazy "Jell-O" effect when I park the vehicle without applying the parking brake! LOL

Davinci547Acura

So do you also set the parking brake at every stop signal while driving? LOL The Jell-O wiggles with many of us everywhere we travel in addition to when we park.

aIRpeACE

iTrader: (2)

No offense but as i told Stew before, the TLX(first year model especially) will be problematic down the road.

Rocketsfan

lol. I just took my car to the dealership for the first oil change/tire rotation and the software update and told them about this. One of the techs explained what could be happening during parking of the car was the parking pawl wasn't getting positioned into a notch in the gear and the rollback causes it to finally get locked into position. Of course after all this, they added that everything was "in spec". Having worked in software development, I know that being "in spec" doesn't mean it's working correctly as specs can be wrong. lol. But I wasn't going to harp on it, because I'm not sure what the dealership can do... create a new "correct" transmission on the spot? Of course, if this is truly what's happening, why didn't my 3G ever exhibit the bounce? Sounds like a design issue.

It's not really a big deal to me if I get a new tranny out of it. I had worries about my 3G when, after the first few months of ownership, it had a transmission recall to add an oil jet. I was like "crap". Well, over 200,000 miles later, I was still driving that sucker on that transmission with that oil jet. Hopefully, I'll be part of this recall and my life with this car will be similar to my last one.

Tonyware

+2, oh what the heck, +3

Stew4HD

Yee haw.. I guess he told me!

smoooov

Blah blah blah. The car has a 4 year warranty so whatever. If nobody buys the first year of a new car model I doubt there would be a second year. Look at all the recalls going on across all makes. I guess everybody should just stop buying cars period.

Stew4HD

Indeed!

It's not like these things don't happen to 2nd, 3rd + year cars too. Some people are looking for any opportunity to try and show that this car is bad..

Tonyware

^no its not bad. I mean considering how much crap there is out there. But, speaking of past Honda/Acura experiences and the fact that we all have set our expectations of these two brands TOO high, well, we know that the assembly line for any new model works better the second, third, fourth, and if any, fifth year. To add to that, there are recent management changes, corporate structure changes, etc. These things don't get done overnight. It takes 2-3 years to transition to whatever they have decided. Its not only cars, its also people who make the cars. To add to that, there is way more software in these cars and again speaking of experience, you can get the mechanical parts 100% right from day one, but the software, well, don't bet the farm on it!

I am targeting a 2016 SHAWD tech, sometime the spring/summer of 2016 and it better be Slate Silver Metallic - lol.

tlxsteve

Too bad you can't tell what colors will be available in 2016. After this lease, I plan to lease or buy another TLX in 2018. So far my 2015 is cruising along smooth and quiet.

Mr Hyde

Happy to say I have never noticed this effect at any point other than for placing it in Park on a slope which makes it the same as any other A/T vehicle I have owned.

Having this one issue doesn't make it "problematic down the road", and it is always better to buy midway through the end of a vehicle's life cycle than it is at the very beginning. That's hardly earth shattering information for any vehicle from any manufacturer.

ostrich

No, I do not feel the "Jell-O" effect when I am at the traffic light. I only feel it when push the "P" button when I am about to park my car. Interestingly, when I put on the parking brake first, and then push the "P" button, I do not get that "Jell-O" thing. Perhaps I do have a separate issue than what you guys have described.

Maybe this is indeed related to the tranny issue here???

Ian Andrews

Could be worse. I see Mercedes has a recall on the new C Class for a steering shaft which might malfunction and cause a loss of steering. That could be nasty!

4WDrift

That or not releasing your foot brake before hitting the parking brake after 'P' has always been the proper way for most all automatics that I know of, this normally won't allow the weight of the car to roll up against the Park gear and give you that heavy 'grongggg' pulling it out of Park.

ostrich

That is what I do and that still causes the "Jell-O" thing. I also do not have that heavy "gronggg" thing as I pull out of Park. Anyway, thanks for your input - this has been discussed at length in the other threads, so I probably should just put this to rest here.... thanks!

Tonyware

I see... its not only the MDX that has assembly glitch issues in new plants set up recently in Alabama... But the worse in the MDX is body panels not aligning and some dash plastic parts missing.

ECRD

I worked on one today and it was pretty bad. In "Park" you could literally push the car around like if it was in neutral. Any slight incline the car would just roll. Tranny replaced under warranty.

No worries TLX owners, small amount have been effected.
Its still a very nice car overall.

EE4Life

See TSB 14-050 - Safety Recall: Transmission Does Not Engage Park.

https://acurazine.com/forums/fifth-g...letins-914607/