I had a couple TL's, the first one was a 2000 and had a trans around 100 and went to 260k until I hit a curb and bent the frame into the crank pulley. Car was flawless. Second one was an 08 that was flawless except it was a crash magnet. Tagged it, and literally an hour later, got rear ended, fixed, then hit two months later in a perking lot from rear door to decklid, fixed then t-boned a guy who turned in front of me 6 months later. Trans was screwing up so I let them total it out.
Well hell, at this point what's one more derailment tangent in this thread;
40-something midlife crisis non-awd honda product storytime:
the 2nd generation legend (91-95) was probably peak Acura {along the same timeframe as the NSX development}
Rumor has it that it was Acura's S-class killer attempt; they developed it so extensively that they ended up losi money on every one even selling them at like $50k a piece in the early 90's; real wood accents; built super well- as close as the japanese came to bank-vault doors while still being mindful of weight in their jap-ness; it was geared aggressively and so pretty quick and loved the cruise set at triple digits. the 6 speed GS trim manuals are the grail cars.
{Although now i recall that it had a front half of a t-case re-routing a rwd configuration v6 & trans with a drive shaft back up to a front dif that was known for needing maintenance. but it was easy to overlook for the' jap s-class'. }
a clean example would absolutely be on my lottery winner collection list.
the 5 cylinder Vigor of similar vintage was another interesting odd-duck.
The 2nd gen integras were also in the discussion of peak acura.
The first gen tl autos were regularly failing within 60k-80k mi and acura good-willed a metric shitton of replacements to about anyone who produce a single transmission fluid service record. the interiors were a bipolar assortment of very nice and accord parts bin 'meh'.
The 2nd gen TL type S and CL type s were torque steering, tire spinning 320hp vtec handfuls. ( i think i burned 30% treadwear off in a TL type S auto loaner in the 48 hours they had my MDX in the service bay) the interior quality was squarly in the middle of the downhill slide to leather wrapped honda trim quality. And my CL type s 6 speed test drive was short but fun- i hit somewhere approaching 100 at the top of 3rd gear and then asked the salesman wtf I was supposed to do with the other 3 gears that didnt involve jailtime ( to the best of my recollection it was crossing 70 at the 2-3 shift that fawker had legs) and we made a u turn and terminated that drive.
the RL's were always meh to me, the future gen TL's are ugly accords;
Acura cars really should be an MBA school case-study in how fast and far you can torpedo a brand into irrelevant obscurity. Spin-off anyone???
( i've got no hate for the MDX/RDX but they don't have very much marketshare in their categories in recent history.)
) until I happened across a matching 4.10 with some other parts. It never engages the rear on the dry unless you mat it so it was fine. Fucker did great donuts. 
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} I'm not saying its a beefy dif in the half tons, but i noise you cant hear over conversational volume levels isn't out of my realm of acceptability.
{edit: looks like someone did actually chang the title; sorry for the hijack 
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I called blackbear a few weeks ago and they want $700 to tune it ( including buying the data logger hardware dongle thing.)
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{unless your going deep into throwback land to subaru loyale/DL/GL and Honda wago-van with the shifter mounted push button...}
