2011 Acura TSX
This year drew an ordinary 47 complaints for a Acura TSX — the model's median is 50. What they were about is the unusual part: 40.4% of them mention steering, against 13.7% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 47 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 50 |
| Involving a crash | 3 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 7 |
| EPA combined | 24 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- steering — 40.4% of this year's complaints, against 13.7% across the model's other years (2.9×).
- breaks — 6.4% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the model's other years (31.9×). Owners wrote it as: breaks, modulator, vsa modulator, modulator failed.
- freezing — 6.4% of this year's complaints, against 0.7% across the model's other years (8.9×).
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
VSA MODULATOR failed, breaks suddenly goes all the way down will not stop, this is suddenly happened while on the road.
POWER STEERING COMPLETELY WENT OUT WHILE DRIVING. STEERING WHEEL WON'T TURN AT ALL. LIGHT GOING OFF ABOUT POWER STEERING MALFUNCTION.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 18V661000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V502000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V378000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V030000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 18V042000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V545000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V346000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Acura TSX 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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