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2018 ACURA MDX — Complaint #2085945

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NHTSA Complaint about FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: WARNINGS filed April 25, 2025

NHTSA complaint #2085945 (ODI reference 11656721) concerns a 2018 ACURA MDX and was filed on April 25, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 25, 2025. The report was geocoded to Mississippi based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as forward collision avoidance: warnings, 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 forward collision avoidance: warnings 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 MDX shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2018 ACURA MDX
Component
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: WARNINGS
State
Mississippi

Complaint Description

Lane Keep assist, adaptive cruise control, forward collision warning all stopped working and received error codes. Dealership stated camera was faulty and needed to be replaced at my cost. Continued issues with electrical systems where the car alarm will go off intermittently, and vehicle will not lock unless manually locking. Dealership stated smart control unit needs to also be replaced at my cost. part number for control unit #38320 was issued by honda motor company service bulletin 21-055 for their honda ridgeline. Acura Dealer will not honor since part number does not specify acura. Part issued in Service bulletin is 38320-T6Z-A11 (honda ridgeline) part needed to be replaced by acura is 38320-TRX-A11. Other service bulletins related to original issues: 20-015, 19-005, 23-008, and 24-022 and safety recall report 23V-751. Dealership is still placing responsibility of repair of defective parts on car owner.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 2085945
ODI Number 11656721
Date Filed April 25, 2025
Failure Date April 25, 2025
VIN 5J8YD3H54JL

Similar FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: WARNINGS Complaints for 2018 ACURA MDX

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.