2000 Acura TL review from North America

We have owned many a car in our 62 years. The Acura Tl is by light years the worst experience we have ever had in a car.

We have had countless repair costs trying to keep the EGR sensor warning from reappearing. New valves... valve and portal cleanouts, and on.

Boots over the grease fittings around the front axles, failing repeatedly.

Trunk door operator switch under the armrest; doesn't work; hasn't worked for thousands of miles.

Traction Control System warning light. No one in Acura, nothing in the owner's manual, no one at our Acura dealer can explain what it means and countless attempts by our service center have not caused it to go away.

The sound level inside the car is worse than in my old pickup. One cannot possibly enjoy the Bose radio and CD palyer because the road noise and inside-the-car-noise is louder than the radio (or else you have to set the radio volume to an extreme).

But... But... The disaster of this car is the transmission. It blew out earlier this year. Cost us nearly $3,000. We drove it 18,000 miles. Acura called it in for a national recall campaign (transmission recall). They put this phony gizmo on it (they called it a "Oil Jet Kit"). Two weeks later the transmission blew out again. Another $4,000. We were stranded 500 miles from home and Acura would not take any responsibility or sympathy.

I could go on and on about this transmission recall fraud. One thing for sure: We will never, never (nor will any member of our family, ever) buy another Honda\Acura product.

There has got to be a sustained effort to bring about a class-action suit against Honda (Acura) America for this massive transmission disaster and their fraudulent plan and procedure for getting away with phony remedies.