2007 Acura RDX
This year drew an ordinary 53 complaints for a Acura RDX — the model's median is 33. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.5% of them mention accelerated, against 2.5% across the model's other years.
First year of a new generation. The Acura RDX was redesigned for 2007. A first year carries problems nobody has found yet, and they are found by the people who buy it — which is worth knowing before you become one of them.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 53 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 33 |
| Involving a crash | 7 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| EPA combined | 19 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- accelerated — 7.5% of this year's complaints, against 2.5% across the model's other years (3×). Owners wrote it as: accelerated, caught, lexus, rubber.
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
THE CONTACT OWNED A 2007 ACURA RDX. WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 70 MPH, THE VEHICLE REVVED AND CAUGHT FIRE. THERE WERE NO INJURIES. THE FIRE DEPARTMENT EXTINGUISHED THE FIRE. A POLICE OR FIRE REPORT WAS NOT FILED. THE FIRE DEPARTMENT DETERMINED THAT THE FIRE W…
0 (N/A). THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 10 MPH ON A SLIGHT INCLINE, THE VEHICLE LUNGED FORWARD WITH HESITATION. THE FAILURE RECURRED INTERMITTENTLY. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN AUTHORIZED DEALER, WHO WAS UNABLE TO DUPLICATE THE PROBLEM AND…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V182000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V061000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 06E096000 TRAILER HITCHES
How this was worked out
Every year of the Acura RDX 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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