Acura RDX — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 5,322 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Lights1,206 (22.7%)
• Visibility (glass, wipers, mirrors)598 (11.2%)
• Air bags (restraint system)464 (8.7%)Official recall records for this system: 16, covering model years 2007–2024.
• Engine438 (8.2%)
• Electrical system314 (5.9%)
• Powertrain (transmission & drivetrain)284 (5.3%)Official recall records for this system: 3, covering model years 2013–2021.

Other / uncategorized: 682 classifications (12.8%) were not assigned to a specific system by the source. They are counted but not treated as an issue area.

These are counts of records held by CarFaultIQ, not a failure rate. More records can simply mean more vehicles were sold or more owners reported. No vehicles-in-service figure exists in this data, so no reliability or risk score can be derived from it.

What the records are about, by source

Each source is kept separate: owner complaints, recalls, manufacturer communications and investigations are different kinds of record and are never added together. All model years.

• Owner complaints (4,282 records, model years 2007–2026) are most frequently classified under: lights, visibility (glass, wipers, mirrors) and air bags (restraint system).
• Transport Canada recalls (42 records, model years 2007–2025) are most frequently classified under: fuel system, air bags (restraint system) and seat belts.
• Manufacturer communications (2,599 records, model years 2007–2026) are most frequently classified under: electrical system, equipment & accessories and visibility (glass, wipers, mirrors).

"Most frequently classified under" reports how the records are filed by the source. It is not a finding about causes, and a record can be filed under more than one system. Read the individual records

Mileage reported when the issue occurred

• 1,136reports included a mileage
• 38,494average of those mileages

This is the mileage owners recorded at the time they reported, not an expected failure mileage and not a prediction for any individual vehicle. The lowest and highest figures on record are not shown: they are unverified odometer entries that include zeros and implausibly high readings, so they would not describe a real range. A median is not shown either, because the stored figures are group totals and a median cannot be recovered from them.

Evidence by model year

Records held per model year. Select a year to narrow this page to it.

1. 2007 131 records for 2007 131
2. 2008 107 records for 2008 107
3. 2009 73 records for 2009 73
4. 2010 78 records for 2010 78
5. 2011 69 records for 2011 69
6. 2012 70 records for 2012 70
7. 2013 290 records for 2013 290
8. 2014 380 records for 2014 380
9. 2015 529 records for 2015 529
10. 2016 201 records for 2016 201
11. 2017 198 records for 2017 198
12. 2018 136 records for 2018 136
13. 2019 667 records for 2019 667
14. 2020 588 records for 2020 588
15. 2021 311 records for 2021 311
16. 2022 172 records for 2022 172
17. 2023 76 records for 2023 76
18. 2024 31 records for 2024 31
19. 2025 35 records for 2025 35
20. 2026 2 records for 2026 2

Counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold in each year, so a taller year is not necessarily a worse year.

Reports mentioning outcomes

• 114mention a crash
• 22mention a fire
• 94mention an injury
• 2mention a fatality

These are counts of records whose report mentioned the outcome. They are not a severity rating and not a safety assessment of this vehicle.

Official records held

• Safety recalls NHTSA 64
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 2,599
• Investigations NHTSA 6
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 42
• Owner complaints NHTSA 4,282

Explore the underlying evidence records

Diagnostic codes found in evidence for this vehicle

These codes appear by explicit identifier in official records matched to this exact model and year.

• P0087 in 20 records · 2019–2022
• P0741 in 16 records · 2017–2018
• P061B in 10 records · 2019–2021
• P2101 in 10 records · 2013–2023
• P0455 in 7 records · 2012–2015
• P0456 in 7 records · 2012–2015
• P2652 in 4 records · 2017–2017
• P0236 in 3 records · 2019–2021
• U3000 in 3 records · 2020–2021
• P0441 in 2 records · 2018–2018
• P0460 in 2 records · 2020–2020

A code appearing in a record means the code was named in that document. It is not a diagnosis of this vehicle, not a fault this vehicle has, and not an indication of urgency. Diagnosis requires reading live data from the vehicle.