2017 ACURA MDX — Complaint #1955622
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NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING filed January 5, 2024
NHTSA complaint #1955622 (ODI reference 11563770) concerns a 2017 ACURA MDX and was filed on January 5, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 30, 2023. The report was geocoded to New Jersey based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as exterior lighting, 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 MDX cohort independently describe similar exterior lighting 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 2017 ACURA MDX shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
NHTSA Recal #19V-256 So according to Acura, this vehicle had the tail lights replaced in 2019 but the tail lights broke again in 2023. How do we know if Acura just replaced with same OEM tail lights but didn't fix the problematic tail lights. These lights are not a simple bulb replacement, it is costly in $600/Ea range to replace whole assembly.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1955622 |
| ODI Number | 11563770 |
| Date Filed | January 5, 2024 |
| Failure Date | June 30, 2023 |
| VIN | 5FRYD4H81HB |
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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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