Tell Acura about your 2015 TLX ownership experience

I took ownership of my TLX V6 Tech in mid September and I have absolutely had no problems at all. I am very happy with my car. It's a nice, quite ride and I love having the 290 hp at my disposal when needed. I waited several years for the TL body style to be updated and I am happy with my decision to go with the TLX. It saved thousands of dollars from the other German automobiles I was considering.

Follow up to my above post, a new transmission issue that happened three times in the past week. When the car is not fully warmed up after just a few minutes of driving, when trying to take off from a dead stop, step on the gas, the engine revs to almost 5,000 RPM and the car goes nowhere - like you are on ice, or as if it had slipped into neutral. Fortunately it happened within the industrial park where I work with little traffic. If I was trying to jump into traffic I would have been slammed. Not good.

I've had a new v6 TLX tech package for a couple months now. I put a lot of miles on my vehicle so I'm already at 10k. So far I love it, it handles awesome I was close to buying a Lexus IS350 and GS350 but the IS was uncomfortable after test driving it only 40 miles and the GS felt like a boat. The look is great, I totally disagree with one posted saying to change, I believe when the TL switched from 07-08 or somewhere around there it got ugly for a few years. This model is a keeper I get a lot of compliments. I have one frustration and one concern. The gadgets frustrate me a little bit, I had an 05 TL and I don't feel it has come a long way with responsiveness and it seems harder to get things done than the older TL. I also don't remember having to push the speech recognition button twice in the old TL, it is annoyingly slow. But the sound system is awesome, the navi is same as always. I don't really know if I like the forward warning yet as I drive rather aggressive and it goes off on me too much but I'm guessing that can be turned off if I wanted. On to my concern, I really hope this engine keeps to Acura history and lasts to 300k because I will hit that in 5 years. I went with this because of the gas mileage which I just found out the drive options, econ, standard sport actually make a difference. I figured it mainly just changed the get up and go from start and on the interstate it wouldn't make a difference. Well I was wrong. Econ has increased my gas mileage from 29 average to 33 average which is what I got in my 2013 ILX.. Not an ILX fan by the way on that model stick to Honda, the TLX is a true Acura quality car. Anyway I hope everyone gets their issues taken care of, I've had some gear skip problems in my old TL but I drive so hard that I consider it normal if it's once or twice a year. The TLX drives smoother and is much more comfortable than any car I've owned and I've had a lot of them.

I just bought 2015 tlx 4cyl with navagation package, it has less than 200 miles on car and has started shifting really hard. When it downshifts it is almost slamming into gear, sometimes you put accelerator to the floor and engine just revs and car sits there, I am scared to even pull out into traffic. I googled the problem and first saw the class action lawsuit ( just for this problem ) then found this site. I now have to drive a hour away to drop car off , this is ridiculous on a car that is less than 3 weeks old and for what I paid.

I have a lot of issues with the transmission, mentioned by a lot of people. I also have a very noticeable clunk sometimes when I put it in gear. It is not consistent.

I'm leasing a 2015 Acura TLX V6 Base and the car is great in every way except for the transmission. Going from 2nd to 3rd has a very pronounced kick and does not feel normal in a luxury sports type car. Is
Acura working on a solution or it is what it is?

1000 miles on my new TLX V6 with tech package. Overall very happy with the car. I love driving it, but I do have to ask about feedback on the navigation system compared to prior years. I HATE IT !! This is my 5th TL and this navi is so different from my 2013. The 2015 to me is not user friendly at all. Not so much in setting a destination but in utilizing the screen, it looks like it's hand drawn and very few of the street names are marked. I travel a lot and really depend on it to bypass a road block or avoid traffic patterns quickly. Can't do it because the streets aren't named, even in the minimum radius area setting. It is annoying enough to me that I will definitely look into a different make car next time. Thanks for letting me vent.

I bought my 2015 acura tlx may 1st 2015. 3 weeks into driving it I started noticing very hard shifts on 1-2&3-4 and hard downshifts when coming to a complete stop making my car "lunge" forward. Along with that issue I have had 3 really scary incidents when being on open road(45 mph) and/or stop light .The transmission will be in 3rd gear and as you drive the rpms jump to 5-6,000 and slows the car down without being able to accelerate. It's as if your driving normal and the car goes into neutral! First time it happened cars started closing in on me ready to rear-end me and there was nothing I could do. it takes about 10-15 seconds to finally catch on and switch gears back. the last 2 times the same thing happened and I was able to get off the side of the road . I had to switch car off then restart to get out of the issue. All 3 times I have had my kids in the car. I am sadden to learn that I am not the only one who is experiencing these issues and it is a very dangerous situation. I am very concerned it is going to happen to me while I am trying to go through an intersection , and im not going to be able to get through it quick enough without being hit or possibly killed!! I have brought it in to acura and they have tried to replicate it but have not been able to. the recognize the hard shifts but I was told there is nothing they can do as of this time.. It is not hard to find out that this is a serious safety issue , with it being all over the internet and a class action lawsuit going on right now for the same reasons. Acura has to step up and fix this. These are people's lives at risk . I am so disappointed because the car is really beautiful and should not have this as issue.

I don't have a clue who Parks McCants is, but Clueless One may be his other name. What is this, the Official Acura We've Never Heard Of These Complaints Before forum?

Take a few minutes out of your busy day and visit acurazine.com, and get your pals at Acura to do likewise. It would be an education both for you and them. Both the 8 speed DCT and the 9 speed ZF are dreadful transmissions. Then there's the dreaded Highway shake.

Luckily for me, the problems people speak of happened on my test drives, so I was lucky enough to escape buying one. I'm a mechanical engineer, and I like responsive cars - I drive a Subaru Legacy GT, but had the want, not need, to buy a nice new car.

The nice Acura salesman, newly graduated from being a mechanic, first put me in a 4 cylinder TLX. The engine felt like 24 frantic gerbils, and the transmission banged through gears great at first. Then in traffic, everytime I came up behind someone, a giant orange BRAKE sign told me to
do what I was already doing. Ridiculous. The front warning collision went off AFTER the little old lady with dog had already crossed the road as I waited at the stop sign, on a side street with no other traffic. Ridiculous.

I'd had enough, so told the salesman I needed to get this leadass car back to the dealership. Turning left in front of oncoming traffic, I rolled along at maybe 2 or 3 mph waiting for a break, when it came, I goosed it and nothing! Not a damn thing. There I am pedalling the accelerator like mad, and finally a clunk as some gear or other I engaged, with the salesman yelling at me to get going as traffic bore down on his side. So we made it. Just.

I insisted on a chat with the dealer GM. The salesman backed me up. Apologies all around. Would I like to try a V6? So against my better judgement, I said yes. That thing would peel rubber off the right hand front wheel if you goosed it from a stop - zero traction. My brain says - what about winter? So we got on the highway, and the thing vibrated at 65 mph, felt like from the rear. Everything going through some repetitive cycle of vibration. It wasn't the wheels, trust me, I've been driving for 45 years. Salesman agreed there was vibration - he could feel it.

Anyway, a couple of weeks later, they offered a SHAWD for a test drive. No obvious problems except jerky shifts, and this one was okay on the highway. Give it a kickdown test, and nothing happens for two seconds, just like the Chrysler 200 V6 AWD with the same crappy ZF 9 speed acted like, which is why I tried the test. So then I tried it on some quiet roads I know. The tires squealed at moderate speed, a sports sedan this thing is not. Also, why does it have pushbuttons for the transmission selector, but no way to hold a gear? Useless.

I then received a lecture that this was the future of cars. Not for my future, I replied, my car is twice this pile of junk. On the way, home, dropped into the Audi dealer and drove an A3 AWD. Faster, more responsive, altogether better than the Acuras, but about on par with my car, so no point trading.

It's a pretty poor excuse of a car, the TLX, in my opinion. So bad, I joined acurazine.com to watch the fallout. And I was correct. TSB's and updates all the time, and this a brand new car!

Time to remove the stars from your eyes, and recognize this thing for what it is, an underdeveloped sedate sedan with only two redeeming features: it's quiet, and it gets great gas mileage. And that's about it.

I thought Honda made decent cars but had never owned one or driven an Acura. The Accord has a vertical ride vibration problem on smooth roads, so count that thing out - it's a head bobbler. So, my summary of this company is that they are clueless. Maybe the average prole would never notice, but anyone with a feel for cars knows it sure ain't much good.

If you have the cojones to print this, I'll probably laugh my head off at the silly reply. What, you think all the people above who took the time to post are all having some kind of delusion? As an engineer, I'm telling them what they are experiencing is true. It all happened to me.

Bill

Bought a 2015 Acura TLX with AWD Tech and Advanced Package. It has 4, 500 miles on it. It just quit on me driving down the road!!!! how dangerous is this. it has been in the shop 3 days and they can't figure it out. it just started slowing down and then quit. They recharged the battery and restarted it but it is still running rough. What is wrong!! did i buy a lemon?