1990 Acura Legend problems
Owners have filed 45 complaints with NHTSA about the 1990 Acura Legend. Brakes is the most reported problem area, at 27% of complaints. After that come body & structure (11%) and air bags (9%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 45 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Brakes 27% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 11 and 1
- Injuries and deaths
- 6 and 0
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
What the data shows
Safety-related details: 11 complaints mention a crash; 1 complaint mentions a fire; 6 injuries reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 93% of model years in our database.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 1990 ranks 3rd most-complained-about out of 5 model years of the Acura Legend with enough data (14 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 1 safety recall campaign.
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
Vehicle was involved in a crash and air bag deployed. Once the air bag deployed, there was severe damage done to the driver's face.
Late airbag deployment during a collision, causing traumatic injury to driver's eye. 3 other passengers were not harmed (no airbags). Airbag caused all damage, including loss of vision in right eye of driver.
I was involved in a hit and run which caused my driver side air bag to deploy causeing swelling to my face and the fumes from the air bag itself was very strong.
Tl* the contact owns a 1990 acura legend. While backing up the vehicle, the brakes ceased to function which resulted in a rear end collision with another vehicle. A police report was filed and there were no injuries. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic where it was diagnosed that the master cylinder was defective and needed to be replaced. The failure recurred and the master cylinder was replaced three times. The vehicle was repaired again and the failure recurred. The failure mileage was 79,580.
I have had the front lower ball joints replaced in 2001, 2002 and 2003 with less than 10,000 miles and around a year of wear. The first time they were replaced, the dealer did them and put in defective parts. And refused to replace them even after admitting their defectiveness-- of course the service rep denies having admitted this.