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Model years to avoid

Acura RDX

What it says about you

Opinion

You have arrived somewhere and would prefer it not be obvious. The badge is doing exactly as much work as you asked it to, which is a little.

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

20 model years on record, 2,128 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2021 (case), 2020 (window), 2019 (window), 2015 (dim), 2014 (headlights), 2013 (dim). 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.

  • headlights 2013, 2014, 2015 peak 61.4% of that year's complaints
  • night 2013, 2014, 2015 peak 58.9% of that year's complaints
  • dim 2013, 2014, 2015 peak 50.4% of that year's complaints
  • shattered 2019, 2020 peak 42.8% of that year's complaints
  • accelerate 2017, 2018 peak 37.8% of that year's complaints
  • glass 2019, 2020 peak 30.5% of that year's complaints
  • window 2020, 2021 peak 27.7% of that year's complaints
  • windshield 2019, 2021 peak 24% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2026 nothing on record 0 complaints
  2. 2025 1 recall 29 complaints
  3. 2024 2 recalls 11 complaints
  4. 2023 2 recalls 21 complaints
  5. 2022 2 recalls 31 complaints
  6. 2021 case 109 complaints
  7. 2020 window 339 complaints
  8. 2019 window 433 complaints
  9. 2018 1 recall 76 complaints
  10. 2017 1 recall 74 complaints
  11. 2016 2 recalls 40 complaints
  12. 2015 dim 409 complaints
  13. 2014 headlights 240 complaints
  14. 2013 dim 162 complaints
  15. 2012 2 recalls 15 complaints
  16. 2011 2 recalls 16 complaints
  17. 2010 2 recalls 22 complaints
  18. 2009 2 recalls 15 complaints
  19. 2008 3 recalls 33 complaints
  20. 2007 3 recalls 53 complaints

What does a Acura RDX 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.