There is an intermittent safety issue with the active headlights on the acura rl vehicle. Occasionally, the headlights will shut themselves off during operation at night. Sometimes it's just one and sometimes it's both. This is an issue that has been brought to the dealers attention. They cannot find anything wrong so they just suggest changing out all of the active components at the owners expense. I do not feel this should be paid for by the owner as this is a long running vehicle safety issue which should be cleared up by the honda corporation.
2005 Acura RL electrical complaints
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We have a 2005 acura rl. During driving, the entire power drops. Without electricity to all components, the power steering goes, the engine stops, all lights on the dash board off. After a few seconds to a minute, the power comes back. But the car will be showing all kinds of error messages. The transmission will be at a wrong gear. Acura dealer service can reproduce the problem but for over one month, they cannot fix it because they do not know what is wrong. The driver at he dealership who experienced the problem was so scared and the dealer told us the car is extremely dangerous to drive.
Headlight flicker on / off. Sometime completely shutoff, but will turn back on after turn off and on the headlight. This issue is repeatable for over a few weeks.
Headlights have been flickering here and there, getting worse and worse. Now the drivers side headlight goes out and comes back on occasionally.
2005 acura rl active front headlighting I first complained about the problem to my dealer, and nothing was done. During driving at night the drivers head light flickers and goes off completely I live in tennessee so I drive on mountain roads alot, to get the light back on to work properly I have to actually stop in the middle of the road, or pull over safely and turn off the headlights then back on again, this happens when going around curves, as well as over rough pavement I have researched online and this is a problem that occurs with this system and there has not been a positive fix as of yet please advise.
1) filling gas tank - repeat shut off at filling station immediately following incidence at filling station the nest day the following occurred to my vehicle: 2) remote keyless entry failure 3) navigation system failure 4) no heat or air conditioning $ 700 charge at dealer for them to replace: passenger side outer door handle for traced short to handle causing blown fuse which was (above listed ) resolved problems 2-4. $ 1700+ charge at dealer for them to replace fuel tank - problem unknown. Could there be a condition similar to mustang fuel tank problem in 2005,2006 & 2007 models? Condition may be due to the fuel tank vapor venting system inside the fuel tank, a heat-induced fuel vapor lock, or other gasoline fuel fill interruption situations.
My headlight on my acura rl are intermittent and going out every so often, more often then not. The problem just started to happen. It happens all the time off and on. The problem is with the light ballast and it will run you from $500 to $1200 to repair.
2005 acura rl broke down within 10 miles of dealership immediately after purchase. Vehicle has electrical problems. *bf on each breakdown, the sh-awd and vsa warning light illuminated at the same time. The navigation screen which controlled all of the electrical system totally failed. The yar rate sensor under the center dash was defective.
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