Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL | |||
| 12/06/2012 | 122000 | 1 | |
| I was driving down the highway at ~60+ mph in traffic and tapped the brakes. the car lurched and almost came to a dead stop (i later learned that the automatic transmission had shifted into 1st gear). this happened 2-3 other times as i tried to move over and get out of the traffic flow w/o being able to fully deploy the brakes. i had to coast to a stop. the force of the lurch was enough to throw me forward in my seat. i feel very fortunate that the airbag didn't deploy and that i was able to move to the shoulder without incident. the loud clunk that the car made when this happened made me think i had hit a huge rock or something in the road. beyond scary. i am the only owner of this car and it has been 100% maintained by the dealer. *tr | |||
| 12/06/2012 | 122000 | ||
| I was driving down the highway at ~60+ mph in traffic and tapped the brakes. the car lurched and almost came to a dead stop (i later learned that the automatic transmission had shifted into 1st gear). this happened 2-3 other times as i tried to move over and get out of the traffic flow w/o being able to fully deploy the brakes. i had to coast to a stop. the force of the lurch was enough to throw me forward in my seat. i feel very fortunate that the airbag didn't deploy and that i was able to move to the shoulder without incident. the loud clunk that the car made when this happened made me think i had hit a huge rock or something in the road. beyond scary. i am the only owner of this car and it has been 100% maintained by the dealer. | |||
| 09/29/2010 | 55863 | ||
| 2006 acura tl (3.2l) accelerator pedal position(app) sensor had a intermittent failure causing a loss of power and acceleration during a left turn at a busy intersection. confirmed by dealer by reading history of failure codes. had to pull out of traffic and restart car. acceleration returned but check engine light stayed on. this has only happened one time. immediately took car to dealer where fault code was read and as the fault had cleared, i was told to continue to drive the car because there was a month wait for a new sensor due to a backlog of orders for this part. | |||
| 10/06/2007 | 32000 | 3 | 03/05/2006 |
| My husband was driving the car and while in drive had his foot on the brake and the car revved up and lurched forward, he hit the brake hard to stop it. on october 5th i pulled into a parking space and applied the brake came to a stop and the car accelerated, i hit the brake hard and between the brake and hitting a curb came to a stop! on october 6th i was at a complete stop at a light facing uphill for at least a minute, the light was still red, traffic stopped i had my foot on the brake and the next thing i knew i was being propelled into the car in front of me! the police officer looked at all of the damage, the traffic conditions, talked to the witnesses and encouraged me to look into mechanical failure because it did not make sense! the woman in front of me went by ambulance to the hospital for a neck injury and my car has approx 3,000+ front end damage. *tr | |||
| 09/20/2006 | 4140 | 1 | 04/24/2006 |
| Since leasing car in april 2006 there have been 10 incidents of sudden acceleration. concluding in an accident 9-20-2006. company inspected the car for one half hour on september 27 and couldn't find the cause. *nm | |||