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My last car, a 2007 Acura TSX, had the same problem--it wouldn't start after 4 or 5 days (maybe 2 or 3 during the winter). This model was from the first wave of touchscreens and bluetooth. Mechanics shrugged, pointed to the tiny, underpowered battery, and told me to drive it more.

Thankfully there are a lot of car enthusiast forums out there that have been plugging away on vBulletin for years. Someone on an Acura forum had figured out that the bluetooth module was always on and looking for a connection. I tried disconnecting it, and the problem was fixed.



God bless online car forums. Usually just awesome, well-intentioned, and helpful people that participate, with decades of knowledge indexed. There was a year way back there when the usefulness of the forums surpassed the Chilton's manual for me entirely - probably something to do with the addition of YouTube.


Same problem and same fix for my 2009 Acura MDX.


Same problem with our 2007 Acura TL. And we fixed it the same way.




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