Acura Electrical Problems

Electrical issues make up roughly 10% of all Acura owner complaints. The majority of the issues have been reported by TL owners.

The complaint we hear about most often is battery drains in the 2006 TL.

Common Acura Electrical Problems

  1. HandsFreeLink Drains Battery

    Acura's parent company Honda was one of the first to offer a hands-free system called HandsFreeLink. In their rush to beat the competition, however, they missed a defect that allows the system to stay on at all times. Yes, even after the ca…

    Continue reading article "HandsFreeLink Drains Battery" The blue user interface of HandsFreeLink is shown making a call via a BlackBerry.

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    Continue The blue user interface of HandsFreeLink is shown making a call via a BlackBerry.

Where Electrical Complaints Happen

Sometimes it helps just to tally up the complaints and see where the biggest stacks are. Use this information to learn about troublespots or to run for the hills.

Worst Issues

Worst Models

  • TL

    37 complaints

  • MDX

    30 complaints

  • TLX

    16 complaints

  • RDX

    14 complaints

  • TSX

    11 complaints

  • RL

    8 complaints

Recent Electrical News

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  1. Water is leaking past a faulty seal and straight into the tail lights of roughly 360,000 Acura SUVs.

    From there it meets up with some electrical components and that never tends to go well. In this case, it’s shorting out internal and exterior lights in the 2014-2019 MDX and 2017-2019 MDX Sport Hybrid. Dealerships will replace the light assembly gaskets when the recall begins on April 29, 2019.

    keep reading article "Acura Recalls 360,000 Leaky Tail Lights in the MDX and MDX Sport Hybrid"