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2006 Acura MDX

This year drew an ordinary 87 complaints for a Acura MDX — the model's median is 80. What they were about is the unusual part: 24.1% of them mention transmission, against 8.9% across the model's other years.

NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.

What the complaints were about

• transmission — 24.1% of this year's complaints, against 8.9% across the model's other years (2.7×).
• roll — 8% of this year's complaints, against 1.9% across the model's other years (4.2×). Owners wrote it as: roll, jumped, rolling, site.
• owner — 9.2% of this year's complaints, against 2.9% across the model's other years (3.2×). Owners wrote it as: owner, name, placing, child.

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

WHEN PLACING HER CHILD IN THE THIRD ROW SEAT, THE CONTACT NOTICED THAT THERE WAS NO SETTING FOR THE MIDDLE HEADREST FOR SMALL KIDS. THE CONTACT FEELS THAT THIS IS A SAFETY ISSUE FOR YOUNG KIDS BECAUSE THE HEADREST ONLY HAD TWO POSITIONS. IF THE CHILD IS NOT TH…

VEHICLE TRANSMISSION CAN NOT SHIFT WHILE DRIVING ON THE ROAD .NO REVERSE AND FORWARD .THE VEHICLE HAVE 76000 MILES ON IT.

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.

Recalls for this year

• 19V182000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
• 19E068000 VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL Fixed free of charge.
• 19V499000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
• 19V501000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
• 06V270000 EQUIPMENT
• 17V029000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
• 15V320000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
• 16V344000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.

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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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