2018 ACURA ILX — Complaint #1838135
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NHTSA Complaint about SEAT BELTS:FRONT:RETRACTOR filed September 2, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1838135 (ODI reference 11482653) concerns a 2018 ACURA ILX and was filed on September 2, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 24, 2022. The vehicle had 25,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Florida based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as seat belts:front:retractor, 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: yes, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. A complaint that flags a crash, fire, or fatality is escalated on NHTSA's internal review queue and factors more heavily into any Preliminary Evaluation decision on this make and model. 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 ILX cohort independently describe similar seat belts:front:retractor 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 2018 ACURA ILX shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2018 Acura ILX. The contact's daughter was driving approximately 10 MPH and accelerating after stopping at a traffic sign when the vehicle was crashed by another vehicle. The contact's vehicle had the front bumper removed. There were no injuries and both vehicles were drivable. The contact's daughter had exited the vehicle and retrieved the front bumper. She got back into the driver's seat and attempted to strap the seat belt on, and found that the seat belt had become locked and would not deploy normally. The contact had taken the vehicle to a collision repair shop who advised that the seat belt was not available and the vehicle could not be released due to the failure of the driver's seat belt. The manufacturer had been informed of the failure. The vehicle had not been repaired. The failure mileage was approximately 25,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1838135 |
| ODI Number | 11482653 |
| Date Filed | September 2, 2022 |
| Failure Date | April 24, 2022 |
| VIN | 19UDE2F3XJA |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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