# My acura

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-acura/24609>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [January 8, 2009, 11:03pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-acura/24609 "2009-01-08T23:03:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![oconnor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/2acd7d/32.png) [@oconnor](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oconnor)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 11:03pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-acura/24609/1 "2009-01-08T23:03:31Z")

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I have a 2003 tl , it runs great except for an occasional tug between gears, mostly second to third, anyone else have this problem and if so is it necessary to go to a transmission place to look at it or should I just turn the radio up?

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**Author:** ![hellokit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6a8cbe/32.png) [@hellokit](https://community.cartalk.com/u/hellokit)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 11:24pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-acura/24609/2 "2009-01-08T23:24:30Z")

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You know that automatic transmission fluid and filter change you were going to put off until you needed it? Well, this is it.

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**Author:** ![Pontiacura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pontiacura](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Pontiacura)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 6:59pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-acura/24609/3 "2009-01-09T18:59:34Z")

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Actually, these transmissions don’t have a user serviceable filter, the fluid is all you can change/maintain. It’s easy to do a fluid change: open the trans drain plug and ~3 of the 7.2 qts will drop out. Refill via the fill plug on top or the dipstick hole. Use Honda ATF-Z1 (or Amsoil ATF if you want synthetic).

Btw, what do you mean by an “occasional tug between gears”?

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**Author:** ![Joseph\_E\_Meehan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/joseph_e_meehan/32/21_2.png) [@Joseph\_E\_Meehan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Joseph_E_Meehan)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-acura/24609/4 "2009-01-09T19:25:10Z")

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occasional tug between gears

should I just turn the radio up?

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If I put those two together it would seem that it may be grinding between gears and that you may have a manual transmission. Is that true? If so Hello and 65 were mislead by a lack of information. I my guess is right, you may need to have the clutch checked out as well as the linkage and syncro hubs.
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**Author:** ![Pontiacura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pontiacura](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Pontiacura)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 8:14pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-acura/24609/5 "2009-01-09T20:14:18Z")

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Actually, '99-'03 TL was only available with an auto.