Other body or interior problem on the 2007 Acura TL
1 injury 1 of the 22 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.
When other body or interior problem gets reported
Owners of the 2007 Acura TL report other body or interior problem at a median of 70,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 40,000 miles and a quarter after 95,000 miles, from 16 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 88,000 miles. It is the 1st most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 20,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 165,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 144,000 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
A spread this wide points at use rather than design. Towing, climate, service history and city mileage all move a failure like this, so the median is a weak guide to any individual car.
25% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22,000 miles | 37,500 miles | 68,250 miles | 92,750 miles | 166,000 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 an injury 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 $200–$2,000 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 12 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2012, at a median of 800 miles, and latest on the 2004 at 90,000 miles.
By volume the 2004 carries the most reports, with 218; the 2007 has 22. 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.
I have a 2007 acura tl type s..a couple of month after purchasing the vehicle while driving to work one day my fuel system light came on stating that I need to check my gas cap..so I pulled over and make sure that my gas cap is tight which it was..so I shut off the vehicle and restarted it again. The light was still on.. So I decide to take the car to the dealer each time I take it there .. I get the ar back the assurance that I would not happen again..till this day the problem still exist and I had spoken to other type s owners and they are having similar problem with their acura tl type s vehicles. *tr
Tl*the contact owns a 2007 acura tl. While driving approximately 65 MPH, the vehicle stopped and the key would not release from the ignition. Also, the vehicle doors would not unlock. The engine restarted after several attempts and stalled. All the instrument panel warning lights illuminated. The vehicle was towed to an authorized dealer, but they could not determine the cause of the failure. The technician stated that the computer was wet from an unknown substance and the failure could possibly recur. Currently, the vehicle is undergoing diagnostic testing and the defective computer is being replaced. The contact was concerned of the safety risk involved. The failure and current mileages were 14,000.
I own a 2007 acura tl-navi. The front doors of the car are large and heavy. The part or parts of the door hinge mechanism which are supposed to hold the front doors in the open position when entering or exiting the vehicle appear to be under-designed for their intended purpose. As a result, the doors often close unexpectedly with significant force, and can seriously injure a hand or leg. The problem is especially severe when the car is parked in an uphill position, as the force of gravity causes the front doors to slam shut. I request that NHTSA require the manufacturer to re-design the hinge mechanism (or other parts that are defective) and offer them to owners at no charge. *tr
Also reported on the 2007 Acura TL
Other electrical problem
Other steering problem
Other powertrain problem
Other engine problem
No-start or intermittent start failure
Other fuel system problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 22 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 body or interior problem happen on the 2007 Acura TL?
Across 16 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 70,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 40,000 miles and a quarter after 95,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other body or interior problem on the 2007 Acura TL?
22 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.2 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