Other brake problem on the 2010 Acura MDX
1 crash 1 of the 3 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
Only 2 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.
When other brake problem gets reported
There are 3 reports of other brake problem on the 2010 Acura MDX, 2 with a mileage attached. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 88,000 miles. It is the 7th most-reported problem on this model year.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | 29,500 miles | — | — |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 1 a crash is mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $300–$1,800 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 14 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2025, at a median of 1,000 miles, and latest on the 2006 at 125,000 miles.
By volume the 2017 carries the most reports, with 20; the 2010 has 3. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
Tl* the contact owns a 2010 acura mdx. While the contact was driving down an incline approximately 20 MPH, the brakes were engaged yet there was no response. The contact veered off the road and traveled over a curb. The brakes were applied numerous times before the vehicle engaged and began to decelerate. The engine was then turned off to allow the vehicle to come to a complete stop. The vehicle was then towed to an authorized dealer where a road test and an inspection were performed. In addition, photographs were taken of the vehicle. The technician was unable to detect the cause of failure. The manufacturer was notified of the failure but no assistance was offered. The failure mileage was approximately 9,000.
I was driving and prior to hitting my brakes, several alert messages popped up and a voice started reading them out. The messages are still saved on the acura's computer, but since the car is in the shop right now, I don't have access to recall them exactly. The only one I remember said that the vehicle stability assist and tcs may not operate and it tried to direct me to find the nearest acura dealership. There was also a message about ABS. When I pressed the brakes, there was minimal resistance, and the car didn't stop whatsoever. It didn't skid or slide, there was no brake pressure at all. I had a few seconds to decide if I wanted to: pull into a ditch and probably flip the SUV, pull into oncoming traffic, or hit the car in front of me that was stopped at a red light. I ended up choosing the latter and hitting the car, after my car didn't decelerate or brake whatsoever. The alert messages remained accessible on the computer of the car after the accident and I can retrieve them after the car is repaired. There was significant damage to the front of the SUV, but I am obviously most concerned about the safety of the car being that…
Also reported on the 2010 Acura MDX
Other engine problem
Excessive oil consumption
Seat belt or retractor failure
Exhaust leak or fumes in the cabin
Other electrical problem
Other body or interior problem
How far this goes
This page is kept out of search results because 3 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.
Complaints are voluntary, so 3 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other brake problem happen on the 2010 Acura MDX?
Across 2 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 30,000 miles. A quarter were filed before — and a quarter after —. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other brake problem on the 2010 Acura MDX?
3 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 4.7 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed