Sunroof failure or glass breakage on the 2014 Acura RDX
Only 4 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 sunroof failure or glass breakage gets reported
There are 4 reports of sunroof failure or glass breakage on the 2014 Acura RDX, 4 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 78,000 miles. It is the 6th most-reported problem on this model year.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | 61,500 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
Putting it right typically runs $700–$4,500 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 7 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2015, at a median of 1 miles, and latest on the 2013 at 65,000 miles.
By volume the 2021 carries the most reports, with 16; the 2014 has 4. 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.
On friday, july 7, the sunroof on my 2014 acura rdx exploded while driving on a highway. I heard a sound like a bomb going off, then I saw glass fly behind my car. Fortunately there were no cars behind me at that time and the liner inside my car was closed or glass would have flown into the car and most likely hurt myself and my client. I called acura dealer, and they said they never heard of such a thing. After searching on the internet, I found that this is a chronic problem and hundai and audi have issued voluntary recalls of sun roof glass and that many other car manufacturers have had this problem. Here is a link to a tv news story on the acura rdx : http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/shattered-glass-sunroof--293692881.html. There are thousands of complaints about this problem at the national highway traffic safety administration and there are class action suits underway. I am in the process of asking acura to pay for the repair which will be about $1,200 ($367 for the glass and the rest labor charges). With all of the sun roofs out there, this is a safety issue for people in the car and outside of the car when there is…
I was on my way to work. I was coming down the highway when suddenly we heard what sounded like a rock or an other object hit the top of my vehicle but, we didn't see the rock or object. It was a hard hit per the sound. My son was in the vehicle with me. He pulled back the sunroof cover and we saw that the sunroof was shattered. As I dropped my son off at work, we were able to further examine the damage. The shattered pieces of glass was blowing off the roof as I continued to drive the vehicle making it a safety concern. Therefore, I had to get the sunroof repaired immediately. I contacted the acura dealership first for the repair and they informed me that they didn't repair sunroofs. After shopping around for an affordable price, I took it to a auto glass repair shop and they repaired it. I found myself with an unexpected out-of- pocket expensive repair cost of a little less than $500. I was later informed of an current investigation on exploding sunroofs. I'm wondering if that's what I experienced with vehicle's sunroof. I do have photos but not able to upload at this time.
Also reported on the 2014 Acura RDX
Headlight failure or clouding
Other lighting problem
Airbag inflator rupture
Other suspension problem
Seat belt or retractor failure
Other electrical problem
How far this goes
This page is kept out of search results because 4 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 4 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 sunroof failure or glass breakage happen on the 2014 Acura RDX?
Across 4 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 60,000 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 sunroof failure or glass breakage on the 2014 Acura RDX?
4 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.1 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