2010 Acura MDX
This year drew an ordinary 45 complaints for a Acura MDX — the model's median is 87. What they were about is the unusual part: 20% of them mention another, against 4.3% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 1 of the Acura MDX, which began in 2007 and ran to 2013. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 45 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 87 |
| Involving a crash | 6 |
| Involving a fire | 4 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| EPA combined | 18 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- another — 20% of this year's complaints, against 4.3% across the other years of this generation (4.7×).
- removed — 8.9% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the other years of this generation (44.4×).
- happened — 20% of this year's complaints, against 7.9% across the other years of this generation (2.5×).
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
WHILE SITTING AT A STOP LIGHT ANOTHER VEHICLE GOING 65MPH CRASHED INTO THE REAR OF HER VEHICLE. THE SEAT BELT DID NOT HOLD HER IN, AND HER FACE HIT THE INSTRUMENT PANEL CAUSING LACERATIONS TO HER EYES AND TWISTING OF HER BACK. THE AMBULANCE TOOK HER TO THE HOS…
THE VEHICLE WAS STRANDED ON THREE SEPARATE OCCASIONS AND WOULD NOT START. THE BATTERY STILL WORKED. THE DEALERSHIP, HENDRICK'S ACURA IN CHARLOTTE, NC, REPLACED A FUSE TWICE AND REMOVED THE AUTOMATIC STARTER AND REPLACED A WIRE. TODAY, THE CAR WOULD NOT START A…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 10V002000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Acura MDX was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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