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Lighting · 1 owner report

Other lighting problem on the 2012 Acura RDX

Only 0 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.

Reports of this failure 1
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 0.0 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $120–$1,200
What it means when it happens Moderate
Rank among this year's problems 10th

When other lighting problem gets reported

There are 1 report of other lighting problem on the 2012 Acura RDX. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 10th most-reported problem on this model year.

None of these reports included an odometer reading, so there is no mileage distribution to show. NHTSA's form does not require the field.

What happens, and what it costs

Putting it right typically runs $120–$1,200 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 4 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2019, at a median of 100 miles, and latest on the 2013 at 95,000 miles.

By volume the 2015 carries the most reports, with 99; the 2012 has 0. 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.

Median
  1. 2011 Acura RDX other lighting problem 120k
  2. 2012 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
    —
  3. 2013 Acura RDX other lighting problem 95k
  4. 2014 Acura RDX other lighting problem 70k
  5. 2015 Acura RDX other lighting problem 58k
  6. 2018 Acura RDX other lighting problem 25k
  7. 2019 Acura RDX other lighting problem 100
  8. 2020 Acura RDX other lighting problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  9. 2024 Acura RDX other lighting problem
    no odometer readings given
    —

Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens

Also reported on the 2012 Acura RDX

Airbag inflator rupture

5 reports median 40k

Oil leak

2 reports median 7k

Sunroof failure or glass breakage

1 reports median 30k

Other engine problem

1 reports median 18k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 1 report 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 1 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.

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