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Great Looking Car BUT QC & Tech Poor
BIndi, 03/26/2017
updated 04/22/2020
2017 Acura TLX 4dr Sedan (3.5L 6cyl 9A)
25 of 30 people found this review helpful
I owned a 2010 Acura TL and it was time for an upgrade so I chose a 2017 Acura TLX. Right out of the gate I felt sick for spending this much money on a car with so many technical and quality control flaws. Just to name a few, the dashboard technology is so ridiculously behind other car manufacturers but I didn't realize how bad until after I owned the car and had a chance to deal with it on a daily basis. Just an example is turning on heated seats requires pressing a button on the touch screen then selecting again a level of choice then you have to exit out by pressing the x. If you want to change it again the same three steps are required each time. This is really ridiculously unsafe and requires a lot of distracted driving. If you use voice control it's a two step process and that's if the car recognizes what you are saying. The car accellerates sputtery for lack of a better way to describe it and we were told it's the gas we buy. So we buy Top Tier gas at specific gas stations and it still spudders. I plan on keeping the car even though I'm discouraged I spent so much money on this car. Frustrated the manufactur hasn't corrected the past problems with their brand and went cheap to not update their technology. Not to mention they went ultra cheap on their seats as well. The 2010 has much better quality seats that were solidly sewn whereby the TLX seats are glued together and flimsy. Terrible quality failures here and I'll be looking for a different brand my next car.
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Awesome Car Great Value!
Paul, 02/23/2017
2017 Acura TLX Technology Package 4dr Sedan (2.4L 4cyl 8AM)
17 of 20 people found this review helpful
I don't understand why edmunds isn't giving the TLX more love, guess they are too caught up in the Audi BMW and Benz bandwagon and turbo craze. I have a 2013 Honda CR-V and love Hondas and decided it was time to upgrade the wife's car from a Mustang to this. Great decision the 4 cylinder has tremendous power even though I thought long and hard about going w the 6, the technology package is definitely worth the extra bucks for all the safety features and technology that comes w it. Absolutely love this car all the way around
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Mid-Sized Price For Entry Level Luxury
Richard, 05/13/2018
2017 Acura TLX 4dr Sedan (2.4L 4cyl 8AM)
13 of 15 people found this review helpful
The TLX is comfortable, relatively quiet, and nice looking, inside and out. Beware of the plastic around the seat bases. Guaranteed to crack and separate. Bad design. Every now and then,when stopped, the transmission causes a forward "kick", making you wonder if someone rear ended you. The controls are complicated and not at all intuitive. Mileage is great considering its quick acceleration, BUT, premium fuel is required.
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vibration
Changmin, 12/24/2016
2017 Acura TLX SH-AWD 4dr Sedan AWD w/Technology Package (3.5L 6cyl 9A)
34 of 42 people found this review helpful
We bought a TLX AWD V6 with tech package at end of August, 2016, the car vibrates around 75 MPH from day one. We sent it back to dealer 4 times, they did balance, changed four tires. Yesterday, they changed many parts according to the instruction from Acura. The car still vibrates around 75 MPH, but less intensively. Just improve a little bit. I have driven four TLX V6 AWD from dealer, every of them vibrates. My neighbor has a TLX AWD V6 with tech package too, his car vibrates around 75 MPH too. This time Acura made very bad car. Acura client relation is terrible. They don't care about this issue at all. We made phone, they told me they would call me back but they never called me.
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Disappointing for a Luxury Automobile
Dimitri, 05/25/2017
2017 Acura TLX 4dr Sedan (3.5L 6cyl 9A)
14 of 17 people found this review helpful
This is my 6th Acura. 2017 TLX, 6 cylinder with Technology package. I turned in a 2013 TL, which I really liked but the lease had been extended three times. The 2013 was a superior automobile to the 2017. In more detail: The road handling is very good. The steering is precise and communicative. The road noise has been improved considerably. The stereo is the known ELS which is very good. The bad news: The technology is archaic, behind the times, totally disappointing, head scratching, how ACURA allows their automobiles to be designed and sold this way. The Honda Civic and the Hyundai Elantra (!!) are years ahead in terms of technology than the TLX. The menu selections are awful, a lot of duplication. The response time is amazingly slow, to the point that one does not know whether it works. The software did get "hung up" once, during the first week but it recovered. If technology is not important, it is a very solid car and fun to drive. But since technology is an integral part of the driving experience, it is a rather disappointing car.
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