2017 Acura TLX — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 108 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Engine33 (30.6%)Official recall records for this system: 9, covering model years 2015–2020.
• Powertrain (transmission & drivetrain)18 (16.7%)Official recall records for this system: 4, covering model years 2015.
• Fuel system10 (9.3%)Official recall records for this system: 17, covering model years 2015–2025.
• Brakes9 (8.3%)Official recall records for this system: 3, covering model years 2021–2025.
• Electrical system8 (7.4%)
• Speed control & accelerator4 (3.7%)

Other / uncategorized: 12 classifications (11.1%) 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 (1,756 records, model years 2015–2025) are most frequently classified under: engine, powertrain (transmission & drivetrain) and electrical system.
• Transport Canada recalls (45 records, model years 2015–2025) are most frequently classified under: fuel system, engine and seat belts.
• Manufacturer communications (1,893 records, model years 2015–2025) are most frequently classified under: electrical system, engine and equipment & accessories.

"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

• 30reports included a mileage
• 39,118average 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. 2015 780 records for 2015 780
2. 2016 364 records for 2016 364
3. 2017 219 records for 2017 219
4. 2018 195 records for 2018 195
5. 2019 172 records for 2019 172
6. 2020 124 records for 2020 124
7. 2021 190 records for 2021 190
8. 2022 110 records for 2022 110
9. 2023 55 records for 2023 55
10. 2024 21 records for 2024 21
11. 2025 14 records for 2025 14

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

• 2mention a crash
• 2mention a fire
• 1mention 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 3
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 143
• Investigations NHTSA 2
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 1
• Owner complaints NHTSA 70

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.

• P0420 in 6 records
• P0716 in 5 records
• P2652 in 4 records
• P0430 in 3 records
• P26C3 in 2 records

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.