Acura - TLX – Auto Idle Stop

Auto Idle Stop is a convenient feature that helps enhance your fuel efficiency in stop-and-go traffic. Auto Idle Stop activates automatically each time the engine is turned on. To disable Auto Idle Stop, simply push on the Auto Idle Stop button on your console.

[OfficialPrincipe]

The video's quality is on par with the documentary we see in middleschool/highschool lol.

[jboyd]

This "feature" is as well thought out as the lack of a transmission release on the 9 speed. I got to experience both when my TLX died at a busy intersection and the Acura tow truck had to drag it, locked wheels and all onto his bed. Now I try to make sure I turn it off before I put the car in drive but I forgot one day a couple of weeks ago and the car died in a construction zone. Thankfully it restarted on the 5th or 6th try because I'm not sure a tow truck could have pushed through one lane traffic to get to me. PLEASE ADD A DISABLE OPTION!

[Iron_Bagger]

Worst “feature” of my TLX. Absolutely hate it. They try and save $.02 of gas in a car that costs $45K. If I cared about that, I would have bought a hybrid.

[roc]

Engine failing to start after idle stop

[toddmediumwellingtoniii]

so is Acura going to introduce or show off anything new at the Geneva motor show?

[jamesyao]

Does this feature wear down the battery faster?

[danield]

How can I make an auto idle engine problem code disappear?

[kevinkott]

Is there a way to permanently disable this feature? HATE IT.

[jstrojo]

This feature is the WORST on my 2015.  I can't tell you the number of times I've been stopped at an intersection and the car won't turn back on.  Local dealership has been unable to identify or resolve the problem.  It's the number one reason I won't be buying any Acura with this feature in it again.Acura needs to get rid of this feature or give you a way to permanently disable it (versus having to turn it off every time you start your car).

[w-]

Auto manufacturers put in features that the majority of buyers HATE:
1) Forced Lighting a.k.a. Daytime Running Lights. There are many situations where you want to turn off all vehicle lights. There are over 400 Movie Drive-Ins in America today, or you might be waiting outside for someone at night and don't want to shine your lights in someone's windows. About 80 Billion TONS of greenhouse gas are pumped into the atmosphere annually so people can drive around with lights on while the sun is shining brightly, (an exception is Toyota, 17% of their customers buy them because the lights can always be turned off.) On two occasions, General Motors petitioned the government to make daytime running lights mandatory. On both occasions, the department of transportation denied the request citing there was NO evidence that driving around with your lights on in the daytime improved safety.

2) Engine Stop Start technology, this technology was developed for the SOLE purpose of improving the EPA, MPG number. In the real world it does virtually nothing to save fuel, but it DOES wear out your engine faster. Nothing is harder on a car engine than when you start it. General Motors and other cars, do not have the ability to turn this "feature" off.

3) Dangerous navigation systems that do not allow the PASSENGER to input an address while the vehicle is moving. Because of this common dangerous feature, people are forced to do additional driving and maneuvering to get the car in Park and then back onto the road. Others, will use their iPhones to enter an address. The car computer knows if there is someone in the passenger seat. If there is a passenger in the a car the navigation system should fully function. Most people hate “Nanny Cars”.

There are hacks and modifications to overcome these defects, but most people are just happy to keep their older cars without these massive design mistakes.

[trentmaracle]

This feature could kill you!!!Nothing worse than pulling out in an intersection to take a left, stopping and having the engine shut off, then trying to continue only to having to wait for the car to start again. By the time you get going, the window of opportunity to get through traffic has closed and you end up getting T-boned by oncoming traffic! It would be one thing if there was an option to permanently disable this feature but you can’t. You HAVE to remember to turn it off every time you start the car. As many settings as the car can remember, why can’t this be one of them. Absolutely loathe this feature. There is a hack but the dealership will not do it.

[kelanth]

It's a lie that the AC stays on when the engine shuts off. The fan runs and you get cool air for a few seconds. If you're at a long light you'll start to warm up in about 20 seconds.

[mellowjammer]

It will probably be removed from cars eventually (or at least be able to disable permanently) but unfortunately it will probably take having people killed due to the malfunction of the system and getting plowed into by another vehicle. You know it's going to happen. Yikes!

[martinfrost]

worst function ever. dangerous when fails to start up at a left turn.

[AnimeLoveFreako]

I have 2017 mdx, I have to turn on the idle stop for 2 days and it doesn't work. Then on a third day, I turn it once then it work all day. I took the car in to acura dealership, mechanic guys told me that my car is acting weird and they can't fix it and there's nothing they could do about it. I just bought this car a month ago, please tell me that manufacture can fix it. Is this shop her in Fresno don't know what the fuck he's doing. HELP

[richardweil]

An unnecessary feature that seems like it would use more gas and put more wear on the engine in stop and go traffic. If it could be automatically overridden that would be very helpful.

But on a larger scale I'm a bit overwhelmed by the 2022 TLX manual. It's over 650 pages long, not counting the GPS system! While a lot of this is irrelevant for day to day use, such as the air bag information, that's still an awful lot to digest, and the index is completely inadequate for this much material. When I trained for a commercial pilot's license the aircraft manual wasn't even close to this long! There is something wrong when one is driving computers, not a car.

And as a final note, there was nothing that I could find in this whole book about how to program the garage door opener. An online note said to put a portable one by the blue call button but that did no good. Anyone have ideas?

[phan]

If the user turn it off, keep it off. AIS is most annoying and dangerous BEEP. I would not call this a feature.

[fireandmugs]

Yeah but you guys are 10 years behind. Every Japanese automaker has been making leaps and bounds with regards to design, engines, and transmissions. You peaked in 2008 with the TL Type S - and then spent the next decade offering atrocious shit. You guys forced the "beak" which nobody wanted, for 10 years. You're still using the same 290hp engine from the '08 TL-S in the new TLX - and you've made the cars heavier, so they're actually slower than they were 10 years ago. AND as if that wasn't enough, when you finally decided to redesign the TLX, you ended up making it look 90% similar to the '08 TL-S. Then, you sourced a shitty 9-speed automatic transmission, which made the TLX horribly unreliable - compared to the older TLs and TSXs.
Your entire sedan lineup is objectively worse in every aspect - except for infotainment - than it was a decade ago. You've been making terrible design and engineering decisions for a decade, and have been half-assing any real "improvements" you've tried - I mean the TLX GT edition was literally just some wheels and a lip kit (which had already been available separately for a year before anyway) - it had no real upgrades at all.
So honestly, while you're announcing all of these new Type-S and A-Spec models, it's too little too late. You've been dramatically outpaced by literally every other Japanese and German (and arguably Korean) automaker. Acura: you're playing catch up to such an extent, that your new models won't even be able to compete with the current offerings from other automakers. Your new models will be competing with your lineup from 2008, and Honda's current lineup. You done goofed. Everyone's left you in the dust, so you're competing with yourself.
Everyone else has made enormous strides in design, and engineering - and you've spent the last decade making your once-great products, gradually worse than they originally were.
You have become a case study of a company who had enormous success 10 years ago (the TL actually outsold the BMW 3 series from 2004-2008) - and who has made such poor decisions that you are no longer competitive against anyone but your former self. I loved Acuras. I had an MDX, I have an RSX type S, and I have an '08 TL type S... but I wouldn't buy ANY new Acura today - because your older cars were miles ahead of anything you offer now - and everyone else's offerings and even better.
The best analogy I can think of for the current state of your company - is that of a once-great athlete who threw his career away through drug abuse - and who is now coming out of rehab and trying to get his life in order. He's trying to get back to the level he once was at. The only problem is i) he's aged, and has developed a poor reputation; ii) the other athletes have gotten WAY better and have left him behind, and iii) there are new athletes in the space who are also way better than he is.
Acura: you've got a tall, tall, tall mountain to climb in order to get back to where you once were....
And once you've reached the top of that mountain and regain your former glory, you've got another tall, tall, tall mountain to climb to get to where the other automakers are right now. You've really wasted the last 10 years - and should probably fire the people responsible for that. I really hope you can become a market leader again, but unless you start making better decisions, you're going to be stuck competing with yourselves/Honda forever. Good luck.