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Model years to avoid

Acura TLX

What it says about you

Opinion

A 3 Series was test driven. The maintenance schedule was read. The adult choice was made, and is not regretted on any specific day — only occasionally, in general.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

12 model years on record, 875 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2015 (transmission). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • transmission 2015, 2017 peak 32.9% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2025 1 recall 4 complaints
  2. 2024 1 recall 5 complaints
  3. 2023 3 recalls 10 complaints
  4. 2022 3 recalls 25 complaints
  5. 2021 4 recalls 65 complaints
  6. 2020 5 recalls 62 complaints
  7. 2019 6 recalls 91 complaints
  8. 2018 4 recalls 93 complaints
  9. 2017 3 recalls 69 complaints
  10. 2016 3 recalls 110 complaints
  11. 2015 transmission 340 complaints
  12. 2012 0 recalls 1 complaints

What does a Acura TLX say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.