2021 Acura TLX Type S

No clear pattern

0% of complaints about the 2021 Acura TLX Type S arrived in its first year of service. That is an unusual figure for a 2021 vehicle, but with only 36 complaints on record the sample is too small to call it a pattern — the margin of error covers the range where ordinary vehicles sit. The figures below are reported without a verdict. The most-reported system is power train (29 complaints), typically at 4.5 yr or about 58,061 miles.

Complaints: 36
Median age at failure: 4.4 yr
Median mileage: 58,061 n=1
Crash / fire / tow: 0% of reports
Safety recalls: 1

Safety recalls — NHTSA campaigns

25V031000 2025-01-23

Fuel system, gasoline:fuel injection system

Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) is recalling certain 2022-2025 Acura MDX Type-S, 2023-2025 Honda Pilot, and 2021-2025 Acura TLX Type-S vehicles. A software error in the fuel injection electronic control unit (FI-ECU) may cause an engine stall or a loss of power.

An engine stall or loss of power can increase the risk of a crash or injury.

In owners’ own words

Power train mileage not reported 4.0 yr in service

Transfer case splines sheared, causing the awd system to fail. This eliminates power output to the rear wheels and could cause a loss of control while driving in sub par road conditions. This appears to be a very common issue among the Type-S trim.

Power train mileage not reported 4.3 yr in service

My car is now a front wheel drive car instead of all wheel drive car â¦ no check engine no light nothing except the car is bringing no more power from the back wheels

Power train mileage not reported 3.2 yr in service

The All Wheel Drive system stopped working due to a transfer case/transmission failure. The repair was warrantied by the dealership however everything that i have read states this is a common issue and acura has not provided a permanent fix to prevent this from happening in the future

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.

2021 Acura TLX Type S

When each system is reported — middle 50% of complaints

Safety recalls — NHTSA campaigns

In owners’ own words

How to read this