2005 Acura TL problems
NHTSA has received 553 complaints about the 2005 Acura TL, and 28% of them involve body & structure. Next are air bags (26%) and electrical system (5%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 553 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Body & structure 28% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 10 and 6
- Injuries and deaths
- 10 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 96,000 miles 391 complaints with mileage
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%.
When problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 23 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 20 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 45 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 60 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 63 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 46 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 54 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 28 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 29 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 14 |
| 200k+ miles | 9 |
What the data shows
Of the 391 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 96,000 miles. For body & structure specifically, the median reported mileage is about 94,000 miles (122 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 10 complaints mention a crash; 6 complaints mention a fire; 10 injuries reported. Its complaints are less severe on average than those of 85% 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 2005 ranks 4th most-complained-about out of 16 model years of the Acura TL with enough data (148 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 5 safety recall campaigns.
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.
Driver swerved to avoid car tryin g to merge into same lane. Front and rear left tires hit the median curb ( aprrox 6" max hieght). The rims are the standard five spoke mags that come on 2005 acura tl. Immediatley after hitting the curb - at a very oblique angle - the rim broke. The spokes of the front rim broke loose form the part of the rim that forms the inside of the tire. All 5 spokes broke in the same place. The sppkes and center of the rim stayed bolted to the lugs.
On 9/15/09, while pulling into a parking lot in a parking garage at work, my 2005 acura tl accelerated (on its own) and crashed into the concrete barrier causing the air bag to deploy. I did not have my foot on the gas pedal and the car mat was not stuck under the gas pedal. I was coasting into the parking space when the car "took off" and accelerated into the barrier in front of the garage wall.
I own an 2005 acura tl bought 2 years ago from an acura dealer,like a year ago the dashboard started to crack now it has cracks all over including around the passenger airbag im concerned this could make the airbag deploy incorrectly,I called acura and told them my concerned but they don't share my opinion the only they could offer me its a 'goodwill' 40% discount on the part not the labor leaving me $1643 to pay for probably the same dashboard that its going to last me another 3 years.
Dash board began to crack alongside the right of the passenger dash airbag. The passenger side dash airbag is increasingly noticeable. Since june of 2014, the entire dashboard has continued to crack and is now significantly damaged due to the continuation of cracking that has evolved from the initial crack along side the airbag.