Recall Register

Acura Legend: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 5 recall campaigns for the Acura Legend, model years 1986 to 1995. NHTSA has 370 complaints on file for this model line. 5 of the 10 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19861
  2. 19871
  3. 19882
  4. 19891
  5. 19901
  6. 19912
  7. 19922
  8. 19930
  9. 19940
  10. 19950
Acura Legend: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1995 Acura Legend NHTSA page01438%
1994 Acura Legend NHTSA page01951%
1993 Acura Legend NHTSA page02362%
1992 Acura Legend274200%47,169
1991 Acura Legend2115311%61,388
1990 Acura Legend13492%3,700,000
1989 Acura Legend13492%3,700,000
1988 Acura Legend23184%3,799,088
1987 Acura Legend NHTSA page1924%3,700,000
1986 Acura Legend NHTSA page11746%3,700,000

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

485 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Acura Legend: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Equipment224.7109
Service Brakes, Hydraulic136.166
Air Bags105.251
Vehicle Speed Control82.540
Power Train74.236
Engine and Engine Cooling61.930
Seat Belts47.423
Electrical System47.423
Structure37.118
Fuel System, Gasoline3316

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Acura Legend, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1991, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Acura Legend, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2001, with 93 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Acura: all 20 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Acura Legend: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/acura/legend/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
29 Mar 2018
Manufacturer in the recall file
AMERICAN HONDA MOTOR CO.

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Acura Legend model years have the most recall campaigns?
1992 with 2, 1991 with 2, 1988 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Acura Legend model year has the most complaints?
The 1991 model year, with 115 of the 370 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Acura Legend name?
Equipment: 224.7 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 136.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Air Bags: 105.2 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Acura Legend?
8 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.