Recall · 25V259000
Honda recalled the ACURA MDX over exterior lighting
152,800
Vehicles covered
1
Model
7
Model years
April 17, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
EXTERIOR LIGHTING
- The defect
- Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) is recalling certain 2014-2020 Acura MDX vehicles. Moisture may enter the tailgate lid light assembly and wiring harness, which can cause the interior and exterior lights to fail, including the lid lights, position lights, license plate lights and taillights.
- What it can cause
- Vehicle lights that fail to illuminate can decrease visibility and increase the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect the wiring and install a fuse harness, replace the lid light, and repair the body dust sealer, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 30, 2025. Owners may contact Acura's customer service at 1-800-382-2238. Acura's number for this recall is FLI. Vehicles included in this recall that were previously repaired under NHTSA recall number 19V-256 will need to have the new remedy completed.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 888-327-4236 (TTY 888-275-9171) or go to nhtsa.gov.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
How this campaign compares
At 152,800 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 94% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2014 to 2020, so the oldest vehicles on it were 11 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Acura vehicles have been recalled over the exterior lighting 5 times before this, most recently in March 2019 as 19V256000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 7 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 1,422 complaints with NHTSA, 1,036 of them before this campaign was filed. 52 of those name the exterior lighting, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in November 2013, 11 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 7 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V365000 (structure), 26V332000 (air bags), 24V064000 (air bags), 23V858000 (fuel system, gasoline).
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) with NHTSA on April 17, 2025 as campaign 25V259000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
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