2015 ACURA RDX — Complaint #1957251
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NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HEADLIGHTS:BULBS filed January 11, 2024
NHTSA complaint #1957251 (ODI reference 11564850) concerns a 2015 ACURA RDX and was filed on January 11, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 16, 2022. The vehicle had 79,990 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Rhode Island based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as exterior lighting:headlights:bulbs, 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 RDX cohort independently describe similar exterior lighting:headlights:bulbs 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 2015 ACURA RDX shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2015 Acura RDX. The contact stated that the headlights failed to produce adequate lighting while driving at night. There was no warning light illuminated. The contact drove the vehicle to the local dealer, who replaced the bulbs however, the failure persisted. The dealer stated that the headlight assemblies needed to be replaced. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 79,990.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1957251 |
| ODI Number | 11564850 |
| Date Filed | January 11, 2024 |
| Failure Date | September 16, 2022 |
| VIN | 5J8TB4H30FL |
Similar EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HEADLIGHTS:BULBS Complaints for 2015 ACURA RDX
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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