Honda Car Forum

Hey all. I'm in SoCal and I put a deposit on a 2004 Acura TL with navigation
earlier this month. It seems they are totally out of a specific computer
chip needed to run the navi and it will take about 10 weeks to arrive. Does
anyone else around the nation have this problem?

For kicks, it's got dark gray metallic exterior, black leather interior,
manual transmission... I'm selling my 02 Accord EX V6 coupe for this.

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 23:39:48 GMT, "Andrew/Hal"
<halarkin@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>Hey all. I'm in SoCal and I put a deposit on a 2004 Acura TL with navigation
>earlier this month. It seems they are totally out of a specific computer
>chip needed to run the navi and it will take about 10 weeks to arrive. Does
>anyone else around the nation have this problem?
>
>For kicks, it's got dark gray metallic exterior, black leather interior,
>manual transmission... I'm selling my 02 Accord EX V6 coupe for this.

I was lucky enough to get mine ordered and delivered in December
before the shortage got really intense. I hear that the current
issue is indeed the supplier of the Navi parts can't keep up with
the demand. More precisely, Acura -- based on previous years
sales -- underestimated the sale of TL's with the Navi. GPS
sales used to run about 24% (if I remember correctly) and with
the '04's, it's more like 40 something percent.

The car (and the Navi) is worth the wait!

Lee Florack <lflorack@rochester.rr.com> wrote in message news:<i4t810tbcg513rg9fguv01i75mi0t8v4fg@4ax.com>. ..
> On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 23:39:48 GMT, "Andrew/Hal"
> <halarkin@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> >Hey all. I'm in SoCal and I put a deposit on a 2004 Acura TL with navigation
> >earlier this month. It seems they are totally out of a specific computer
> >chip needed to run the navi and it will take about 10 weeks to arrive. Does
> >anyone else around the nation have this problem?
> >
> >For kicks, it's got dark gray metallic exterior, black leather interior,
> >manual transmission... I'm selling my 02 Accord EX V6 coupe for this.
>
> I was lucky enough to get mine ordered and delivered in December
> before the shortage got really intense. I hear that the current
> issue is indeed the supplier of the Navi parts can't keep up with
> the demand. More precisely, Acura -- based on previous years
> sales -- underestimated the sale of TL's with the Navi. GPS
> sales used to run about 24% (if I remember correctly) and with
> the '04's, it's more like 40 something percent.
>
> The car (and the Navi) is worth the wait!

I have been to 3 Acura dealers localy here in southern california
Orange County, they have an ample supply of TL's with Navi, and are
selling at window sticker or a little under..