GM marketing finally does something right

[William]

Hello Steve;

The TL is a great car, have 4200 miles on it with 0 problems. There are a couple of things to know up front. They require premium fuel [22-24 mpg] and need tires every 25,000 miles or so. Because of the tire pressure monitoring system Acura strongly recommends having the dealer replace the tires, $800 or so. I'll consider that when the time comes. There is no oil change interval; there is an oil life monitor that determines the need for change based on your driving habits. Common these days.

Very happy with it, just subscribed to XM-first three months are included.

[GRB]

"Acura strongly recommends"....As usual the car makers trying to put everybody else out of business. Greedy bastards. Where do they get the gall to say crap like that. The average tire dealer's tire jockey knows more about tires than anybody at the average Acura dealer. After market retailers spend tens of thousands of dollars on equipment to keep up with the changing times. How the Hell do they think po-dunk dealers have changed tires on vettes with PMS all these years???

More evidence you shouldn't believe ANYTHING a dealer tells you. Lexus dealers and Lexus Corp. are telling us GX-470 owners that a vibration at 55-65 MPH is normal after 10,000 miles or so. That's a nice feature on road trips. They also said a shaking steering wheel on sweeping turns was normal on my wife's last LS400. Another dealer, Hennesy, finally changed the PS pump and resolved the problem. My next car will not be a Lexus.

[William]

The reason given for them doing the tires were the sensors in the wheels. I asked a Bridgestone dealer about that at cruise nite and he about gagged. He said those are common these days and that they had done many with no problem. The last time I shopped tires ['01 Accord] I priced the Honda dealer. They were about 30% higher than everyone else.

Funny you should mention 'Vettes. One of our customers had a new one about 10 years ago and the tires quickly cracked. The Goodyear dealer handed him 4 new ones but could not mount them because they could not get the car on their rack. Same thing happened to me a few years ago at Sam's Club with our '89 Camaro convert-would not fit their rack.