Acura CL 1996–2003 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin 1202 · NHTSA communication 10002583 · issued Dec 16, 2002
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Power Train
component
1996–2003
model years
23
vehicle entries
Official summary
Straining the automatic transmission fluid to diagnose automatic transmissions. *tt
Vehicles covered
- 1997 Acura CL
- 1998 Acura CL
- 1999 Acura CL
- 2000 Acura CL
- 2001 Acura CL
- 2002 Acura CL
- 2003 Acura CL
- 2001 Acura MDX
- 2002 Acura MDX
- 2003 Acura MDX
- 1996 Acura RL
- 1997 Acura RL
- 1998 Acura RL
- 1999 Acura RL
- 2000 Acura RL
- 2001 Acura RL
- 2002 Acura RL
- 2003 Acura RL
- 1999 Acura TL
- 2000 Acura TL
- 2001 Acura TL
- 2002 Acura TL
- 2003 Acura TL
What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.