2025 Acura RDX

Too new to assess

The 2025 Acura RDX is too new for this measure. Almost every complaint about a vehicle this recent is a first-year complaint, because that is all the service life there has been, so the figure cannot separate a genuine early defect from simple youth. The complaint counts, systems and recalls below still stand on their own. The most-reported system is steering (23 complaints), typically at 9 mo or about 2,200 miles.

Complaints: 68
Median age at failure: 9 mo
Median mileage: 2,000 n=8
Crash / fire / tow: 5.9% of reports
Safety recalls: 1

Safety recalls — NHTSA campaigns

25V582000 2025-09-05

Steering:electric power assist system

Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) is recalling certain 2025 Acura RDX vehicles. The software for the electric power steering (EPS) assist may not be calibrated properly, which can cause the EPS system to enter a failsafe mode, resulting in a loss of power steering assist.

A loss of power steering assist can require greater steering effort, increasing the risk of a crash or injury.

In owners’ own words

Steering mileage not reported 7 mo in service crash / fire / tow

I was going around a curve at 20mph and all of a sudden my steering wheel locked up and so did my brakes and I ended up in a ditch. I took a picture of all the alerts that came up on the vehicle.

Steering mileage not reported 8 mo in service

As I was turning a corner, my steering wheel completely locked up on me. I was stuck in the middle of the street trying to get my car to turn into our driveway. Thankfully, I was able to alert incoming traffic through my horn that I was there and stuck. This couldâve been a near death experience and I am uncomfortable driving any Acuras at this time.

Steering mileage not reported 9 mo in service

While trying to steer on the highway steering wheel locked up and received an error that the electric steering was not functioning

Lane departure mileage not reported 7 mo in service crash / fire / tow

I was going around a curve at 20mph and all of a sudden my steering wheel locked up and so did my brakes and I ended up in a ditch. I took a picture of all the alerts that came up on the vehicle.

Other RDX model years

How to read this

This is what owners reported, not a reliability rating. People file with NHTSA about alarming failures, not routine ones, and complaint volume tracks how many cars were sold.
Failure ages come from the incident date on each complaint, populated on about 83% of records. Mileage is shown where reported — NHTSA’s 2021 system change cut mileage capture to roughly 15%, so it thins out sharply after MY2020.
Every rank compares this vehicle only against others of the same model year. A 2025 car has not had time to accumulate five-year failures, so comparing early-failure share across years is meaningless.
Fourteen make-months distorted by media storms and mass recalls — Toyota in February 2010 ran 11× normal volume across 33 models — are excluded.
Recalls are manufacturer actions and authoritative; complaints are not. A recall listed here may already have been performed on any individual car. Check a specific VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls.

2025 Acura RDX

When each system is reported — middle 50% of complaints

Safety recalls — NHTSA campaigns

In owners’ own words

Other RDX model years

How to read this