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Acura TL 2012technical service bulletin

Bulletin BCA08032016901 · NHTSA communication 10085043 · issued Aug 3, 2016

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Electrical System
component
2012
model years
1
vehicle entries

Official summary

"dealer message - today, august 3, 2016, acura reinstated the temporarily suspended service bulletins 16-030, product update: software update for lock-up function and 16-040, warranty extension: 2012 tl torque converter in the service information system. There were concerns with vin inquiry on in and software update vin database mismatches."

Vehicles covered

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.