2016 Acura TLX defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2016 Acura TLX. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• No Restart After Auto Start/Stop Engages
  Engineering Analysis EA25004 · opened Mar 26, 2025 · still open

  On June 3, 2022, the Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) opened Preliminary Evaluation PE22005 after the agency received VOQs and several field reports concerning the Auto Idle Stop (AIS) feature on 2016-2019MY Honda Pilot vehicles. The complaints allege that the engine fails to restart on its own from a complete stop a…

• Electrical overstress
  Engineering Analysis EA19001 · opened Apr 19, 2019 · closed Sep 19, 2024 · led to recall 20V024

  The Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) opened this investigation to determine if the failure of airbags to deploy during severe crashes, in certain vehicles, was the result of a safety related defect. During the investigation a complex failure was studied that can result in non-deployment of subject vehicle air bags…