2007 ACURA RDX — Complaint #614900
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NHTSA Complaint about VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL:LINKAGES filed February 28, 2007
NHTSA complaint #614900 (ODI reference 10183820) concerns a 2007 ACURA RDX and was filed on February 28, 2007. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 28, 2007. The vehicle had 1,200 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as vehicle speed control:linkages, 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 vehicle speed control:linkages 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 2007 ACURA RDX shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
I PURCHASED THE VEHICLE ON 11/23/06 AND ON 1/27/07, THE P1009 CHECK ENGINE EMISSION FAILURE CODE CAME UP ON MY NAVIGATION SCREEN JUST AS MY CAR SUDDENLY LOST ITS ABILITY TO ACCELERATE OR MAINTAIN ITS CURRENT SPEED. MY SPEED WAS REDUCE IMMEDIATELY FROM 60 MPH TO 20 MPH AND THE RPM DROPPED FROM 3 TO BELOW 1. THE CAR BECAME SLUGGISH AND ACTED AS THOUGH IT WAS STALLING. THE CAR WAS IMMEDIATELY SENT IN FOR REPAIR AND I WAS TOLD THE SOLENOID WAS NOT INSTALLED CORRECTLY WHICH CAUSE THE VEHICLE TIMING TO BE INCORRECT. TODAY IS 2/28/07 AND THE CAR WAS TOWED AWAY BECAUSE THE SAME ERROR OCCURRED ALONG WITH A NEW ERROR. THE VSA FAILURE ALERT APPEARED ON MY NAVIGATION SCREEN FOLLOWED BY THE P1009 CHECK VEHICLE EMISSION ERROR. IT HAS BEEN 1 MONTH TO THE TEE AND THE SAME SYMPTOMS REAPPEARED. THE CAR LOST ITS ABILITY TO ACCELERATE AND THE ENGINE STALLED SUDDENLY. *NM
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 614900 |
| ODI Number | 10183820 |
| Date Filed | February 28, 2007 |
| Failure Date | February 28, 2007 |
| VIN | 5J8TB18587A |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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