2016 Acura TLX
This year drew an ordinary 110 complaints for a Acura TLX — the model's median is 62. What they were about is the unusual part: 9.1% of them mention paid, against 3.3% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 1 of the Acura TLX, which began in 2015 and ran to 2020. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 110 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 62 |
| Involving a crash | 5 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 25 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- paid — 9.1% of this year's complaints, against 3.3% across the other years of this generation (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: paid, responsibility, him, looking.
- entire — 7.3% of this year's complaints, against 2.2% across the other years of this generation (3.4×). Owners wrote it as: entire, surges, haven.
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
AS I COME TO A SLOW DOWN AND A STOP MY CAR SURGES LIKE IT WANTS TO CONTINUE TO GO. MORE LESS FEELS LIKE IT JERKS OR A STALL.
Internal transmission error at 60,000 miles. All warning lights illuminated, no sign of transmission failure, but having to replace the entire transmission due to factory defect out of my own pocket.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V060000 FUEL SYSTEM, OTHER Fixed free of charge.
- 23V751000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 23V858000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Acura TLX 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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