Acura RL — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 1,037 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Air bags (restraint system)282 (27.2%)Official recall records for this system: 29, covering model years 1998–2012.
• Lights126 (12.2%)Official recall records for this system: 2, covering model years 1996–2002.
• Electrical system120 (11.6%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 2000–2002.
• Powertrain (transmission & drivetrain)83 (8.0%)Official recall records for this system: 2, covering model years 1996–1999.
• Brakes64 (6.2%)Official recall records for this system: 6, covering model years 2000–2007.
• Engine42 (4.1%)

Other / uncategorized: 34 classifications (3.3%) 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 (841 records, model years 1996–2012) are most frequently classified under: air bags (restraint system), lights and electrical system.
• Transport Canada recalls (55 records, model years 1996–2012) are most frequently classified under: air bags (restraint system), fuel system and brakes.
• Manufacturer communications (1,578 records, model years 1996–2012) are most frequently classified under: air bags (restraint system), equipment & accessories and electrical system.
• Investigations (6 records, model years 2005) are most frequently classified under: air bags (restraint system) and stability & traction control.

"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

• 464reports included a mileage
• 84,596average 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. 1996 96 records for 1996 96
2. 1997 93 records for 1997 93
3. 1998 90 records for 1998 90
4. 1999 106 records for 1999 106
5. 2000 151 records for 2000 151
6. 2001 90 records for 2001 90
7. 2002 119 records for 2002 119
8. 2003 57 records for 2003 57
9. 2004 45 records for 2004 45
10. 2005 277 records for 2005 277
11. 2006 123 records for 2006 123
12. 2007 102 records for 2007 102
13. 2008 94 records for 2008 94
14. 2009 79 records for 2009 79
15. 2010 80 records for 2010 80
16. 2011 102 records for 2011 102
17. 2012 98 records for 2012 98

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

• 44mention a crash
• 16mention a fire
• 24mention an injury

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 97
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 1,578
• Investigations NHTSA 6
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 55
• Owner complaints NHTSA 841

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.

• P1457 in 26 records · 1996–2004
• P1456 in 18 records · 1996–2004
• P0753 in 7 records · 1996–2002
• P0758 in 7 records · 1996–2002
• P1705 in 7 records · 1996–2002
• P1768 in 7 records · 1996–2002
• P0133 in 2 records · 1998–1999
• P1106 in 2 records · 1998–1998

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.