2004 ACURA TSX — Complaint #1558015
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NHTSA Complaint about AIR BAGS filed April 15, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1558015 (ODI reference 11196431) concerns a 2004 ACURA TSX and was filed on April 15, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 1, 2019. The vehicle had 158,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to South Carolina based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as air bags, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same ACURA TSX cohort independently describe similar air bags failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2004 ACURA TSX shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
CAR LEAKING POWER STEERING FLUID AND SMOKING UNDERNEATH ENGINE, KEEP HAVING PROBLEMS WITH THE BRAKING SYSTEM AND I SAW RECALLS ON 2004 -2008 MODELS AND AIR BAG ICON ALWAYS ON
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1558015 |
| ODI Number | 11196431 |
| Date Filed | April 15, 2019 |
| Failure Date | March 1, 2019 |
| VIN | JH4CL96804C |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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