Acura TLX 2021

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

0.75 per 1,000

1.4 times this nameplate’s own median · from 18 complaints filed in the first three years, of 101 ever. 95% lower bound 0.40.

Against its own model years

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

Model year	Per 1,000	Complaints
2015	2.89	136
2016	0.55	23
2017	0.42	15
2018	0.43	14
2019	0.67	19
2020	0.41	10
2021	0.75	18
2022	0.37	7

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Power Train 56 complaints

transfer case	43	76%
transfer	43	76%
awd	28	50%
splines	17	31%
awd system	14	25%

When it breaks

Too few complaints record mileage for this model year to show a pattern. NHTSA largely stopped capturing mileage after 2021.

What NHTSA did

2 investigations covering this model year, 0 of which list a recall campaign. Owners had filed 39 complaints about this component over roughly 13 months before an investigation opened.

All wheel drive allegation

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:

11425874 · 11428292 · 11430462 · 11445287 · 11448912 · 11450633

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.