Acura TLX
Owners filed 897 complaints across 12 model years of the Acura TLX. The 2015 drew the most (344).
Which Acura TLX years should you avoid?
Going by 897 owner complaints filed with NHTSA, the Acura TLX years to avoid are 2015.
- 2015344 complaints, 4.2× a typical TLX year, most often about the transmission.
Better bets: among years old enough for a low count to mean something, the 2022 drew the fewest complaints without an unusual share of serious ones.
Too new to judge: 2025. 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 →
Every Acura TLX model year compared
Complaints per year| Year | Complaints | Relative volume | Recalls | Fires | Crashes | Most reported | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025Too new | 4 | 1 | — | — | Electrical System | Routine | |
| 2024 | 5 | 1 | — | — | Power Train | Routine | |
| 2023 | 11 | 3 | — | — | Unknown or Other | Routine | |
| 2022 | 25 | 3 | — | — | Power Train | Routine | |
| 2021 | 72 | 4 | — | 4 | Power Train | Routine | |
| 2020 | 63 | 5 | — | 4 | Engine | Routine | |
| 2019 | 93 | 6 | 1 | 7 | Engine | Routine | |
| 2018 | 97 | 4 | 1 | 3 | Engine | Routine | |
| 2017 | 71 | 3 | 3 | 2 | Engine | Routine | |
| 2016 | 111 | 3 | — | 5 | Engine | Routine | |
| 2015Avoid | 344 | 6 | — | 12 | Power Train | Above average | |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | — | — | Air Bags | Routine |
Data: NHTSA complaint and recall files, October 2026. Complaints are unverified owner reports.