2012 Acura TSX
Complaints about this year name eps far more often than the model's other years — 26% of them, about 64× the usual rate of 0.4%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 278 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 47 |
| Involving a crash | 8 |
| Recalls | 6 |
| EPA combined | 24 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- steering — 75.5% of this year's complaints, against 13.7% across the model's other years (5.5×).
- check power — 30.9% of this year's complaints, against 2.2% across the model's other years (14.1×). Owners wrote it as: check power, steering system, barely, became very.
- wheel — 44.2% of this year's complaints, against 9.5% across the model's other years (4.6×).
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.
Also unusual this year
- check power — 25% of complaints, 63× usual
- steering system — 24% of complaints, 61× usual
- module — 23% of complaints, 21× usual
What owners wrote
DRIVING IN STOP AND GO TRAFFIC AND SUDDENLY THE CHECK POWER STEERING SYSTEM WARNING LIGHT CAME ON AND I LOST ALL POWER STEERING TO THE VEHICLE. THE WHEEL WAS ABLE TO BE TURNED WITH SIGNIFICANT STRENGTH BUT WILL NEED TO GO IN FOR [VIN] OF THE EPS SENSOR.
I WAS TRAVELING ON THE EXPRESSWAY AND MY STEERING WHEEL BECAME HARD TO TURN ALMOST CAUSING ME TO WRECK. A WARNING LIGHT CAME ON STATING CHECK POWER STEERING SYSTEM, I LATER FOUND OUT IT WAS MY EPS UNIT THAT HAD GONE OUT. ACURA IS AWARE OF THIS PROBLEM AND REFU…
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.
- 18V042000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V030000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V545000 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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