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Replying to: trailhiker (Sep 14, 2009 8:23 pm)
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Does anyone understand 2008 TL's Suspension system? Is it all mechanical parts or is there a digital part (sensor)? Is it possible that there is something wrong with Shock absorber and suspension system in TL? And this may cause sometimes shimmy and sometimes not. Thanks |
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Replying to: mkacura (Sep 15, 2009 4:55 am)
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Replying to: trailhiker (Sep 15, 2009 7:08 pm) |
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Replying to: trailhiker (Sep 15, 2009 7:08 pm) |
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I moved to Minnesota two years ago, and last winter was pretty rough driving for my 2005 TL. The car never handled great in winter when I lived in southeast Michigan, but the snow and ice conditions in Minnesota are more significant/severe than southeast Michigan. From what I hear the Blizzak tires are terrific in winter. I'm looking at buying some on TireRack.com. But I'm also considering buying their "wheel and tire" package - where they ship them to you already balanced, and I could just put them on the car myself. My question to the forum is, have any of you done this? Anything I should be on the lookout for? It's certainly more expensive to buy the wheels AND tires, but I'm thinking it will be less hassle long-term to do it this way. I have plenty of room to store the wheels/tires in our garage or basement. Presently the '05 has 52,000 miles and is running like a top. My plan is to drive it another five years and then give it to my daughter who will start driving at that time. So I think we'd get some good use out of winter tires. Thanks in advance for your thoughts/help.
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Replying to: vincentlo (Sep 06, 2009 7:14 am) I don't necessarily believe them, but after two tires shops over 50,000 miles, and two sets of tires, I'm done trying to figure it out. I would take it to the Acura dealer but their rates are crazy (I can afford them, but refuse to pay it unless absolutely necessary). I just bought some wheels and winter tires on tirerack.com so we'll see if these are any better come winter. Good thing I like everything else about the car!
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has anyone replaced the struts or rear shocks on a 2ndgenTL? I have a 2000 with 149K that is probably ready (1 is starting to leak). just wondering how much it cost (or how difficult it is) to do the fronts or rears? |
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Replying to: strokeoluck2 (Sep 18, 2009 2:50 pm) took the car back to my acura dealer had the tires balanced, a front-end alignment done and a little extra pressure put into the tires; even had the mechanic look at the suspension and struts/shocks to make sure everything was okay but I mean the car only had about 1k miles on it so I didn't expect it to; everything with the suspension etc was okay and the dealership said it had to be something with the tires; the balancing and front-end alignment did nothing to fix the vibrations/shimmy since I had the base car I had the bridgestone EL400 tires on my car and if you read about these tires on tirerack.com you'll see how lousy of a tire they are; took the car to a bridgestone/firestone dealership and told them about my problems and they told me that bridgestone is aware of a problem with these tires causing moderate-severe vibrations/shimmy in vehicles and is why they came out with the top of the line bridgestone serenity's; these are an expensive tire roughly $245 a tire for the TL but I was able to make my case to bridgestone and was able to get a take off and have four serenity's mounted and balanced for $100 bucks total I know have about 11k miles on the car and since having the serenity's put on have had no vibrations/shimmy in the car at high rates of speed; overall I've been very happy but these tires are really expensive and I could not have afforded it without the adjustment, but after reading the poor reviews of the EL400 on tirerack I'm surprised Acura is still putting them on the cars; just read the reviews on tirerack about the bridgestone serenity's and you'll see a night and day difference between the stock EL400s
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Several weeks ago I noticed a sound like crickets chirping when I started up cold. The dealership identified it as a loose fan belt and replaced it. The noise returned, so they then said it was the tensioner, and replaced it, then the belt. Guess what? It's back again and I go in Monday for the 4th time? Is this perhaps a known problem with 08 TL's? Mine only has 12,500 miles on it
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