This can go both ways. Whenever I had to duplicate a concern, I would endeavour to mimic the conditions as much as possible. 70 mph brake vibration? No problem. Transmission vibration after an hour? I will lose my ass on time, but okay.

“They followed the man who, according to police, failed to come to a complete stop at a stop sign and then drove at a speed of 42 mph in a 30 mph zone.”

Ugh, those power steering hoses. I really cannot say anything TOO terribly bad about them. They paid decent times for warranty. Unless I got a rust bucket, I could easily bank time on them. Just like the automatic transmissions 10 years ago, I did so many steering hose recalls I could never even fathom a number. Got…

The system uses coded sensors and initiators. What does your screen on the dash say where you can view all the pressures? If you have one bad sensor, it will show “—” on the tire it cannot read.

The rear transaxle mount may be going bad. That car has 5 mounts: front by the fans, side by the power steering pump, 2 smaller ones on the bottom of the transmission, and a rear one by the bulkhead/firewall. The from and side mounts love to go bad. They are not too bad to change, but can be frustrating if you’ve…

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There’s so much win there I had to take a step back. :)

That is always a good fix. But it is a stopgap. Heating the rest of the electronic chips to that temperature for the time needed to reflow the solder can cause the chips to break down faster. I knew people who did that, and never had an issue again. Conversely, I know quite a few that the box gave up the ghost after…

Does it have navigation? If it does, I can tell you a really neat trick to see if it is toast.

The HVAC fan loves to burn up the harness where it plugs in. That’s always fun. They came up with a repair kit where you replace just the affected wires instead of the dash harness.

I know the “Malaise Era” denotes the mid 70's kill horsepower with kill smog equipment, but the 80's were not much better. All American cars with the 85 MPH speedometers, aerodynamics of a cardboard box, and my personal favorite, “There’s a hill coming up. I have to turn off the AC so we can get over it.”

They hammer me all the time. The mail ones are useful, though. They serve as fuel for my charcoal chimney.

Yep. I owned a same generation TL for 8 years.

No. On the cooling mod.

Where do you live? In what region of the country?

Done.

Arming. You have about 30 seconds or so between the doors locking and the system going full armed. The bright red light by the driver’s lock nub starts blinking, the system is fully set.

I was thinking of something completely different, obviously.

If you got a satnav that’s factory, I can tell you about the advanced screens. The ones to help diag nav, HFL, XM, etc. Not that hard to get into. Fun stuff.

Acura tech here. All that stuff is surprisingly commonplace. The o-ring, HFL, gas cap, Brembo pads? All par for the course. The dead giveaway for the HFL unit hanging up is to put your hand just in front of the map lamps in the overhead console. If it is warm or hot whilst the car is off, boo-yah.