What Makes The Acura TL So Great?

Hey guys welcome back to the channel and today we are going over what makes the wonderful Acura tl so great! This cheap luxury sports car is imo the best first car for a high schooler on a budget out there! It is reliable, fast, dirt cheap, and cool looking for under $5k! I hope you enjoy and if you do, please be sure to like, comment another video you wanna see, and subscribe for more!!

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[markroden]

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[jameshayward]

I own a 2005 Acura TL with 330, 000 miles Bought it new, all but 110 miles are mine. 6SP manual. have never replaced engine or gearbox; super reliable. And oh so much fun to drive. Will never sell it!!!! Thanks for this great video!!!

[TLS_GUY]

I’ve owned my 6 speed 2007 TL Type S for 9 years now, and I’m never letting it go. It’s never let me down, I’ve done cross country trips in it and always reliable and always dependable, until I fucked around and supercharged it. Had to rebuild the transmission but motor is holding strong. Currently working on a 800 whp motor build.

[KaboshkiWulf]

Currently have an 07 Type S right now, had her for a good 7 years and man. It has never let me down!

[cannonwelch]

Got an 07 TL Type S, had a base as my first car, crashed and got the Type S. car has been amazing, fun and reliable. recently went FBO and it is quick

[william]

pushing 150k miles on my 07 base and the only thing to break so far is my driver side cv axle (fortunately not while I was driving) which also taught me how to repair the car myself. will forever love this car.

[Darklord-etxz]

I got a 2006 Acura TL for free from my uncle that he bought brand new.The car has 259, 500 miles on it and it’s still a blast to drive.Although mine is an automatic the manual sport mode is good enough for my needs.

[Marcus-ouvy]

Current 08 TL owner. Love the car; great driving characteristics for what it is. The motor has a wonderful purr to it and sounds amazing when vtec kicks in

[No_Transitory]

I've a 2006 Acura TL and while it's a project car I'm loving every bit of it. Two tweeters, center dash speaker, two 6.5 door speakers, 2x rear 6.5 deck speakers and a free air 8in sub all powered by a stock amp. But if you wanted real sound you had to play the wire game and upgrade the amp. To me the only generation is the 3rd Gen. It's an amazing car even over a decade later.

[isnowyazn]

All I usually tell people, is that if they have any sort of 04-06 Acura TL in the automatic (5AT) option, they need to meticulously maintain the transmission fluid. That means popping the hood and checking the auto trans fluid after super long 8-10+ drives or stuff like cross country trips. Racing the trans from dead stops will also put excessive wear and tear, especially if you’re not changing the ATF prematurely.

The harder you drive those defective automatics, the earlier you have to change the transmission fluid, so that the fluid does overheat itself, cook, and varnish over; which leaves you with burnt fluid that does a shitty job of lubricating. If you have crappy ATF, by the time you start noticing issues, you may have already done a certain amount of damage to the internals. AT damage is serious, where with these trans’, they usually require a full or partial trans rebuild to fully repair/fix. Of course, swapping in the same pre-facelift 3G (04-06) AT will just have it fail again, especially if it’s already another old, clapped out transmission/gearbox.

With the 07-08, the base and Type S both have upgraded AT’s. The 5AT is seemingly more beefy, but of course will still fail if you don’t take care of it. But that could be said about any automatic tbh.

The manual 6MT option from the beginning of the Acura CL, TL, Legend, etc. has always been superior to the early automatic, so there’s really no debate there. Any of the old 6MT’s might even be more fun to drive, compared to the newer 6MT’s. But they all do well with the same premature gear oil/manual trans fluid changing. Unless you’re launching 3-4k+ RPM’s from a dead stop/dig or doing shit like burnouts and donuts, or just smashing the gear synchronizers daily to the point where the gear oil overheats, yeah…. The car might break, but it definitely handles everything the AT models tend to not be able to.

[jkyle]

Got 230k on my 06 6mt, still handing out smoke to g35 owners lol

[ellzgoespro]

05 6MT owner who loves his car here. I own a 300zx twin turbo and my TL is by far superior to the Z when it comes to daily driveablity. My TL has close to 198K on the clock and still pulls as hard (or harder) that my TT Z with 74K! And on top of that, I get 16-26 mpg with my TL, can handle snow better and have dual cup holders! I bought it from the original owner for $4500 and I can tell you that it has been the best car for the money I have ever owned! The only "mods" on it are a K&N reusable filter (not CAI) and a SPEC type 1 clutch with aluminum flywheel and my god is it fun to drive!

[nature_in_glass_boxes]

Going to be getting my 4th TL beginning of 2024... I still miss my old ones and it's time to get another. They are comfortable and powerful enough for daily driving and they still look beautiful.

[secondchanceretro]

No joke a co worker gave me a 2004 TL for helping him dig a pool. Its my daily driver and I love it! I just released a video on this actually.

[chrisflores]

Got a 95 legend sedan as my first car and it's been my daily for over 2 years now. Real shit ill never get tired of driving that thing. The 3.2L V6 in it still feels great and is just enough power to be a fun car to drive and the stock leather interior w bose sound system makes it hard to believe that it's nearly 30 years old.

Overall very grateful I was able to get one as my first car and has been pretty reliable luckily. Wish there was still a reliable market to heavily modify it but that shit still rides like a Cadillac I'm telling yall them old acuras don't play.

[SPRZY]

My 3rd gen TL is my first car. And what a car man. It’s got the regular consumer wants like heated leather seats, the sound system as stated, and it all does it whilst having the capability to just fly on the road. Even when I had a knock sensor issue this thing STILL was kicking it. Genuinely such a fun vehicle to drive

[SantosYaDiggg]

watching this as i just got my 04 tl 6speed man. a few months ago and fw it i knew it came with brembos but didn’t know it had a limited slip diff and anti roll bars. definitely gonna make it a type s build. thankful that i’m the 2nd owner and it just reached 100, 000 miles with it bein taken cared of!!

[grasstoucher]

i owned an '07 base model TL for 4 years before the timing belt broke and the engine died (remember to take care of those every 100k lmao). loved that car. comfortable, fun to drive, and oh so good looking.

[weezy]

I have a 2005 TL with 210, 000 miles on it. Besides having to put 2 transmissions in it, it's been a great car. If i had to buy another one it would be manual transmission instead of automatic. I've talked to several manual trans owners who never had any problems

[marco]

Very good and thorough video on the Acura TL… I’m a big Acura fan myself and was looking at getting an 3rd Gen TL or 2nd Gen CL (preferably Type-S trim for either) as 2nd car for a commuter car as I recently bought a 2023 TLX Type-S and I don’t want to run the miles up like crazy on my new TLX.

Definitely can’t wait to see the TLX video!