No slave to fashion...my AMG has been replaced by a lowly TL

So so far you like the TL, im trying to persuade my mother into getting it as her replacement car.

 

yea u can get it fully loaded for like 37 right?

 

You bet. You should see all the comments I get about my VW Passat. Especially funny from the idiots who have Audi A4s (produced on the same assembly line). I always say "Look on the bright side, you paid more"...but most of them don't get it.

 

my business partner has one. he traded his BMW 540 on it and LOVES it to death. it's not flash and it's not gonna win any drag races, but he says it's probably his favorite daily driver he's ever owned. i've driven it and i think it's a great car. honda knows their ****, that's for sure.

enjoy!

doody.

 

I like the AMG lineup of mercedes yet I hear they have a few years of trouble (like 2002?)

Glad to hear your Acura TL is servicing your needs of reliability. I'd be dumping any make of any car that gave such crappy reliability as what you stated with the MB....

TL is a sharp looking car too.

Congrats.

 

Acura navigation is great.

Congrats on a reliable car.

 

Buy a Blue Tooth phone and you will love it! I have a Razor phone for my M5 with Blue Tooth and it makes driving while using the phone much easier...and safer!

 

good for you, I think the Japanese have taken over the market segment the Germans abandoned when they stopped making reliable high quality cars

 

acura/honda makes a GREAT car..u wont be disspaointed in the future!!!!

 

My 1998 NSX-T is still rock solid and drives and looks like new. I think Honda/Acura makes a good product.

Congrat's on the TL. I like the look and the features but I found the car had a bit too much torque steer for my tastes. But not everyone drives as hard as I do and I'm willing to bet that 99% of people won't even notice.

Good luck.

 

The male voice sounds like Alec Baldwin

I would have willingly run the real Alec over last year someone had messed with the defaults and it kept trying to get me to go to Big Sur as the most direct path from Montarey to Salinas

 

Eeew. It's an overpriced over-sized V6 accord with absolutely no sense of fun at all.

It will look slightly better to your clients. Actually, you should drive a pickup truck. Nobody complains about a $60k pickup, but drive up in a $6k used BMW 7-series...


Can't belive you gave up all the power of the blown AMG motor. (02 was a blower car, right?) I couldn't go back.

All those issues are pretty minor, really you sound more unhappy with the DEALER than the car itself.

I do agree Benz's (& BMW's for that matter) quality has been falling for nearly a decade now. That's probally why I drive an 1988 V-12.

 

If he'd kept it as ol' unreliable - he'd be singing a new version of an old, irritating standby

On the 12th day of expiry,
Mercedes gave to me
12 converters converting
11 systems a-naving
10 mounts a-mounting
9 windows regulating
8 pieces trimming
7 months of waiting
6 trucks a-towing
5 Benz rings
4 Calling cards
3 French cars
2 turds wearing gloves
and a massive coronary

 

wax: it's less the new cars than the new dropout moron techs (combined with the cars just getting more COMPLEX, not nessecarily less reliable.)

I would bet my lunch money he did not have 4 bad cats, but rather something else wrong that was never found/diag'd properly, killing the cats.

And I'd bet dinner that 50% of the other problems were caused/precipitated by the dealer mist-treating the car.



I have a 1988 750il. A car absolutely reknownd for gremlins/goblins/etc. It is not easy to work on, but it's still a car, and it has been quite reliable for me.

 

I like the TL, it's a decent looking car with Honda quality. It's not extremely flashy but it does the job.. always better to fly under the radar if clients are going to see it.

I'm suprised you had the problems you did with the CLK, my friend/roommate had a C43 for a couple of years and it was rock solid despite the beating we gave it every single day.

C.

 

REMIX,
Good decision. MBs are probably the poorest built cars made today. Everyone I know who has a one built w/in the last 5yrs has had many problems. There have been a few articles recently in the WSJ regarding all the quality issues they have. Mercedes had its heyday and tried to keep making money by their name and cutting quality. Now their imaged is tarnsihed for some time to come.

 

Did this thread resonate with me. My wife had two MBs. A 2000 Sl500 that has given us no problems in 30k. None, nada, nix. Great solid car for what it is. I bought her an ML500 in 2003. Incredible problems. Not 1 but 3 washer fluid tanks for example. Brakes every 8k and tires every 10K. Massive depreciation to boot. I'll hold on to the SL but will not trade for a new based on my "new" benz experience. I bought a TL to replace the ML. The nav is great and everything works. A much better implementation than either Mb or the one in my BMW 745. It's plenty quick as well. It's funny what a bad experience will do. It's already cost them two sales with me. The TL and the 745 which I love. For all of the complaints about the 7 series I have had no problems and the car just feels younger than an S class. Lot's of viable options out there.

 

I will swear by my TL..its a great car...and a great value
Cars these days tend to be either one or the other, but never both. It has great pickup, the sportshift, and really good seats (I have the 2000 model)

It drives like a C Class Mercedes, and costs a lot less..plus its a HONDA! can't go wrong there

good decision

 

So what year/s for the blown Mercs are good?