Recall Register

Acura TL: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 25 recall campaigns for the Acura TL, model years 1996 to 2014. NHTSA has 1,269 complaints on file for this model line. 19 of the 19 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. 19962
  2. 19972
  3. 19982
  4. 19994
  5. 20006
  6. 20013
  7. 20027
  8. 20035
  9. 20044
  10. 20055
  11. 20064
  12. 20072
  13. 20082
  14. 20093
  15. 20103
  16. 20113
  17. 20123
  18. 20133
  19. 20143
Acura TL: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2014 Acura TL300%3,335,279
2013 Acura TL300%3,335,279
2012 Acura TL300%3,335,279
2011 Acura TL300%3,335,279
2010 Acura TL323%3,335,279
2009 Acura TL369%3,335,279
2008 Acura TL21624%898,762
2007 Acura TL22131%898,762
2006 Acura TL42233%2,564,850
2005 Acura TL587130%1,672,618
2004 Acura TL4188281%2,603,930
2003 Acura TL5236353%8,503,871
2002 Acura TL7249373%8,514,097
2001 Acura TL3112168%1,983,930
2000 Acura TL6162243%3,913,330
1999 Acura TL4105157%3,490,361
1998 Acura TL21827%221,393
1997 Acura TL22233%221,393
1996 Acura TL22334%221,393

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

1,497 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 TL: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Power Train414.8621
Structure71.5107
Air Bags66.8100
Tires65.598
Electrical System57.486
Visibility45.468
Engine and Engine Cooling45.468
Vehicle Speed Control45.468
Service Brakes, Hydraulic43.465
Suspension28.743

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Acura TL, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2001, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the Acura TL, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2010, with 216 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Acura: all 20 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Acura TL: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/acura/tl/. 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 TL model years have the most recall campaigns?
2002 with 7, 2000 with 6, 2005 with 5. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Acura TL model year has the most complaints?
The 2002 model year, with 249 of the 1,269 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Acura TL name?
Power Train: 414.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Structure: 71.5 per 1,000 component mentions. Air Bags: 66.8 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Acura TL?
8 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.