Acura MDX 2003 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin DLR MSG - ACURA · NHTSA communication 10100601 · issued Oct 14, 2015
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Air Bags
component
2003
model years
1
vehicle entries
Official summary
"dealer message - on september 18, 2013, acura notified nhtsa of a safety recall for some 2003 mdx vehicles for the issue covered in service bulletin 13-038, safety recall: electrical noise may cause inadvertent airbag deployment. On january 27, 2015, acura notified nhtsa of a revised repair for that recall. The original repair consisted of the installation of an electronic noise filter to counter inadvertent airbag deployments due to electronic interference. After further testing, acura has observed a small number of inadvertent deployments in vehicles that already received the recall repair.
Vehicles covered
What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.