AutoUtility currently tracks 11 official NHTSA owner defect complaints for the 2024 Acura RDX. Air Bags & Restraints issues are the most frequently reported category, appearing in 2 complaints (18.2% of submitted records). Among these NHTSA complaint records, 1 filing cites a crash, 1 cites a fire, 1 reports one or more injuries.

Key Problem Findings
  • Total NHTSA Complaints: 11 reports
  • #1 Reported Problem Area: Air Bags & Restraints (2 reports • 18.2% of submitted complaints)
  • Secondary Problem Areas: Brakes & Traction Control (2), Visibility, Wipers & Glass (2)
  • Crash-Citing Complaints: 1 filings
  • Fire-Citing Complaints: 1 filings
  • Complaints Reporting Injuries / Fatalities: 1 injury filings • 0 fatality filings
Reporting Methodology: Statistics describe unverified consumer submissions voluntarily filed with NHTSA. Complaint volume is not normalized for vehicle sales volume or miles driven. Multiple components can be cited within a single owner complaint submission.
Total Complaints
11
Submitted to NHTSA ODI
Crash-Citing Complaints
1
Filings citing a collision
Fire-Citing Complaints
1
Filings citing smoke or fire
Complaints Reporting Injuries
1
Filings citing one or more injuries
Complaints Reporting Fatalities
0
Consumer filings citing fatalities

Most Reported Problems for 2024 Acura RDX

Top automotive subsystem defect categories ranked by unique owner complaint volume in federal records

#1 Problem Area 18.2% of complaints

Air Bags & Restraints

2 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
⚠️ NHTSA Recall Context

NHTSA records list 1 official safety recall campaign for this model year involving the same broad component area:

*Component overlap means an official recall exists for the same broad vehicle system. It does not establish that an individual owner complaint was caused by, covered by, or resolved through that recall.
⚠️ 1 crash report 🩹 2 injury report entries
#2 Problem Area 18.2% of complaints

Brakes & Traction Control

2 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
⚠️ 1 crash report 🩹 2 injury report entries
#3 Problem Area 18.2% of complaints

Visibility, Wipers & Glass

2 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
#4 Problem Area 9.1% of complaints

Driver Assistance & Safety Tech

1 owner complaint submitted to NHTSA ODI
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
#5 Problem Area 9.1% of complaints

Electrical System

1 owner complaint submitted to NHTSA ODI
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
Domain Share Note: Share percentage represents the proportion of unique complaint filings referencing each vehicle system. Because single complaints may cite multiple systems (such as engine and electrical simultaneously), domain percentages represent individual category incidence and may sum to over 100%.

Recent NHTSA Owner Reports for 2024 Acura RDX

Representative defect filings submitted by owners to the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation

Air Bags & Restraints NHTSA ODI ID: #11751085
Crash Cited 2 Injury Entries Filed: 07/17/2026

"The contact owns a 2024 Acura RDX. The contact stated that while driving approximately 35 MPH, the brake pedal was depressed and went to the floorboard. The vehicle failed to stop and crashed into the rear driver’s side of another vehicle. During the crash, the braking system malfunctioned, and the..."

Incident Date: 07/14/2026 • Raw NHTSA Component: SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC,AIR BAGS
Other / Miscellaneous NHTSA ODI ID: #11690499
Filed: 09/30/2025

"As I was driving down the highway, I heard a loud noise that sounded like an explosion of some sort I was going about 65 miles an hour on the expressway [XXX] and [XXX], when I realized that my sunroof had to have shattered. I pulled off the highway and confirmed this. Luckily, my headliner was..."

Incident Date: 09/16/2025 • Raw NHTSA Component: UNKNOWN OR OTHER
Driver Assistance & Safety Tech NHTSA ODI ID: #11688115
Filed: 09/18/2025

"See attached document for complaint."

Incident Date: 06/04/2025 • Raw NHTSA Component: VISIBILITY/WIPER,FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE,ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
Seats & Interior NHTSA ODI ID: #11687060
Fire Cited Filed: 09/13/2025

"This incident happened on July 5th 2025. My 2024 leased Acura RDX front passenger seat caught on fire. The car was parked and not driven for two days before this happened. My educated untrained guess and the police officer on the scene guess was that this was an electrical fire. My Acura dealer..."

Incident Date: 07/05/2025 • Raw NHTSA Component: SEATS
Other / Miscellaneous NHTSA ODI ID: #11662510
Filed: 05/22/2025

"This week, my panoramic sunroof shattered. This is the second time this has happened to me. The first incident was last year my on 2021 RDX. I became suspicious and started doing some research and it appears this has happened to many RDX users. I filed a formal complaint with Honda corporate as..."

Incident Date: 05/15/2025 • Raw NHTSA Component: UNKNOWN OR OTHER
Consumer Narrative Notice: Excerpts are sanitized text descriptions submitted by vehicle owners to the federal ODI database. They reflect the reporting consumer's observations at the time of filing and have not been independently confirmed by vehicle manufacturers or government investigators.

Complaint History for Acura RDX

Reported defect complaint volume across sibling model years (2015–2026)

Model Year NHTSA Complaints Crash Reports Safety Recalls Detailed Report
2015 Acura RDX 409 7 3 View 2015 Problems →
2016 Acura RDX 40 3 2 View 2016 Problems →
2017 Acura RDX 75 7 1 View 2017 Problems →
2018 Acura RDX 77 5 1 View 2018 Problems →
2019 Acura RDX 433 3 5 View 2019 Problems →
2020 Acura RDX 342 4 5 View 2020 Problems →
2021 Acura RDX 111 3 3 View 2021 Problems →
2022 Acura RDX 31 4 2 View 2022 Problems →
2023 Acura RDX 21 0 2 View 2023 Problems →
2024 Acura RDX Current Page 11 1 2 Current
2025 Acura RDX 29 1 1 View 2025 Problems →
2026 Acura RDX 0 0 0 View 2026 Problems →
Comparative Disclaimer: Complaint totals are unadjusted historical counts and are not normalized for vehicles sold, active fleet size, or total road mileage. Newer model years naturally have had less calendar exposure time to accumulate owner filings.

Detailed NHTSA Component Breakdown for 2024 Acura RDX

Complete distribution of consumer defect reports across all 8 granular NHTSA system and subsystem classifications

Vehicle Component / System Total Complaints Crash Reports Fire Reports Reported Injury Entries Reported Fatality Entries
Other / Uncategorized NHTSA category: UNKNOWN OR OTHER 4 0 0 0 0
Engine NHTSA category: ENGINE 1 0 0 0 0
Seat Belts NHTSA category: SEAT BELTS 1 0 0 0 0
Seats & Restraints NHTSA category: SEATS 1 0 1 0 0
Service Brakes NHTSA category: SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC 1 0 0 0 0
SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC,AIR BAGS 1 1 0 2 0
Visibility & Wipers NHTSA category: VISIBILITY/WIPER 1 0 0 0 0
VISIBILITY/WIPER,FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE,ELECTRICAL SYSTEM 1 0 0 0 0
Data Attribution & Reporting Methodology: Complaints are unverified voluntary submissions to the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI). Because multiple vehicle components can be cited within a single owner complaint submission, component-level rollups may sum to more than the unique complaint count (11). Injury and fatality entries in the detailed table reflect raw values entered by reporting consumers across individual submissions; they are not deduplicated casualty statistics and may include duplicate or unverified entries. Complaint volume is not normalized for sales volume or vehicle mileage and does not represent an audited component failure rate.
Official US Government Data Provenance

The complaint records on this page are retrieved directly from the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) public database.

Local Production Store Compiled: August 2026 • Deterministic Audited Dataset • Zero Dynamic External API Runtime Latency.