12V222000
STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST:HOSE, PIPING, AND CONNECTIONS
If this occurs, power steering fluid can leak onto a hot catalytic converter, leading to smoke and possibly an under-hood fire.
2008 ACURA TL
1 safety recall campaign, 181 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations0
Owner complaints181
Complaints citing a crash6
Complaints citing a fire12
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 1 of 1
What owners report most
- 33AIR BAGS
- 24STEERING
- 15ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 13UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 10ENGINE
- 10STRUCTURE:BODY
- 9STRUCTURE
- 8POWER TRAIN
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2008 ACURA TLs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.