Acura RDX

Which Acura RDX years should you avoid?

Going by 2,183 owner complaints filed with NHTSA, the Acura RDX years to avoid are 2019, 2015, 2020 and 2014.

• 2019441 complaints, 4.5× a typical RDX year, most often about the wipers.
• 2015416 complaints, 4.2× a typical RDX year, most often about the headlights.
• 2020351 complaints, 3.5× a typical RDX year, most often about the wipers.
• 2014244 complaints, 2.5× a typical RDX year, most often about the headlights.

Too new to judge: 2025 and 2026. Complaints take a few years to arrive, so a new model year looks better than it is.

How this is worked out: each year is compared with a typical year of the same model, which takes most of the difference in sales out of it, and its share of serious failures is compared with every other car of the same model year, because older cars were complained about differently. A year needs 25 complaints to be judged at all. Complaints are unverified owner reports. Full method →