YearsTell

all vehicles · every RDX year · method

Acura RDX 2017

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

0.44 per 1,000

1.0 times this nameplate’s own median · from 23 complaints filed in the first three years, of 79 ever. 95% lower bound 0.26.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model yearPer 1,000Complaints
20080.193
20130.4316
20141.1652
20150.7737
20160.3518
20170.4423
20180.2615
20192.28144
20201.90110
20210.7742
20220.4719

What owners describe

No phrase appears often enough in these complaints to describe them reliably.

When it breaks

64% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 13,500 miles, from 31 complaints that recorded one).

Failures cluster early, which is the signature of how the car was built rather than of wear. A low-mileage example has not yet passed the risk window.

What NHTSA did

1 investigation covering this model year, 0 of which list a recall campaign.

Desiccated Air Bag Inflator Rupture

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

10954547 · 11000156 · 11001501 · 11013459 · 11024736 · 11035916

Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is automated checks only, not verified against an external source.