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2016 ACURA MDX — Complaint #2087373

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NHTSA Complaint about INTERIOR LIGHTING filed April 30, 2025

NHTSA complaint #2087373 (ODI reference 11657737) concerns a 2016 ACURA MDX and was filed on April 30, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 4, 2024. The vehicle had 141,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Tennessee based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as interior 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 interior 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 2016 ACURA MDX shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2016 ACURA MDX
Component
INTERIOR LIGHTING
State
Tennessee
Mileage
141,000 mi

Complaint Description

The contact owns a 2016 Acura MDX. The contact stated that the driver's side rear taillight bulb had burned out. The contact replaced the bulb, but the failure reoccurred. The contact stated that the driver's side rear taillight failure was intermittent but was a persistent failure. The contact had taken the vehicle to an independent mechanic who diagnosed the failure and determined that there was water inside the taillight assembly which caused the bulb to short circuit. The mechanic informed the contact that the taillight assembly needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The contact researched online and related the failure to NHTSA Campaign Number: 25V259000 (Exterior Lighting, Interior Lighting); however, the VIN was not included. The manufacturer was not informed of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 141,000.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 2087373
ODI Number 11657737
Date Filed April 30, 2025
Failure Date April 4, 2024
VIN 5FRYD4H46GB

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