Hi,

I'm new to the forum, but felt very compelled to share my story. I bought a smoking hot white TL type S late in 2001. I loved the car, awesome to drive, lightning fast.

We'll my first issue came about 22K miles. The tranny began slipping into neutral and then dropping into second. The traction control, D5, and Trac Control Off lights flashed and finally stayed on. I took to dealership, but they claimed no knowledge of any issue. They replaced the soloniods in the tranny and sent me on my way 1 week later.

A very short time later, the exact same thing happened. This time is was driving on freeway and the front wheels locked up and I was very lucky the car behind me was able to notice the rapid reduction in speed without any brake lights and avoid me. Again into the dealer, this time the reluctantly agreed to replace my entire tranny. (This is tranny #2)

The car again drove like brand new and was a thing of beauty. However, over time, I began to notice the small signs that the tranny was going to fail again. For example, the upshifts become less fluid and even jerky. The car also tries to shift up and down when you are stopped ata light. In any case, I have 4 small kids and no desire to die, so back to dealership.
To their credit, they replaced the tranny again, no questions asked. (This is tranny #3).

Addionally, about 3 months later as part of regular service, they told me they needed to replace the PCM (powertrain control module, TCU, ECU, etc.) becuase Acura had "better" software. Turns out the new PCM created a very noticable performance reduction and the car is not nearly as fun to drive now. But hey, I'm thinking, "At least I'll live".

Well, just a few days ago (about 65K miles on car) same exact situation happened again. I noticed all the warning signs, but I'm thinkning maybe those aren't warning signs, just the way the car is supposed to shift. Silly me...... on freeway again, slip into neutral and then drop into 2nd or 3rd. Once again, VERY close call with car behind me, lucky!!!

Car is in shop now for 4th tranny and another PCM.

I love my Acura so the reason for this post is to repsctfully tell the Acura techs who post here that while I do think Acura dealer network and service folks are doing the best they can with a bad situation, if Honda/Acura does not do something more aggressive, sooner or later someone is going to be hurt or killed and that IMHO will be a tragedy that could/should have been avoided at all costs.

When I get the car back my wife is forcing me to get rid of it.