Car Accelerates On Its Own Problems of Acura RDX

On April 18, 2023 driving thru shopping center parking lot, without warning car suddenly jerked right, accelerated, while brakes, steering wheel, gears locked. Ended crashing thru the wall of a structure. Airbags did not deploy but seat belts tightened firmly keeping us from going thru windshield. Episode of "unintended acceleration" was reported to Honda motors whose agent, jason, checked the car 8/1/23 and found no defect. We had driven the car for almost 49,000 miles without incident yet, their agent drove it for less than 10 miles and concluded nothing wrong with the car. Twelve days later while stopped at a red light, dashboard lights suddenly flashed and engine came to a complete stop. Dead. Conclusion was damaged sensor to gas tank since husband had run over tanker truck tire debris on fwy earlier in the day. Point is, this 2020 Acura Rdx with <50k miles has had two major incidents : unintended acceleration and unintended deceleration. Feel betrayed by Honda motors corp at conducting a superficial, inadequate inspection for the defects mentioned and fear for our safety and those of others we share on the road. There's a class action lawsuit in florida for similar complaints but we live in California and have been unable to procure legal representation. . . . . Apparently, not cost effective. My driving record is clean.

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During morning commute on highway multiple warning lights came on, including electronic stability control, emissions, lane departure, and power steering. On rapid acceleration vehicle had pronounced power loss, which obviously could be dangerous. This is the second time this very thing has happened to the vehicle. It's at least the 4th time multiple warning lights have come on, and the second for the loss of power on acceleration. The dealership consulted Acura technical support the last time and said they had identified and fixed the problem.

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While coming to a stop at a busy intersection, the engine suddenly accelerated up to 5,000 to 6,000 rpm with my foot on the brake and the transmission in drive. The brake was not holding and I started moving closer to the car stopped for the red light in front of me. I then put the transmission in neutral while the engine was still at 5,000 rpm and getting faster. Finally, the engine came down to about 1,000 rpm and I continued through the intersection on the green light after placing the car in drive. I drove to work and called the Acura dealer that I purchased this "certified used car" from and they came to my work and hauled the Acura Rdx to the dealer location. They informed me that a "special Acura investigating team" will come and look at the car on Tuesday, April 1, 2014. This is my wife's car I don't even know what would have happened if she was driving. This instant acceleration, without placing the car in neutral, would have pushed the car in front of me and myself directly into a busy intersection without stopping until the engine quit! this failure could result in a very tragic accident. I and especially my wife are very very concerned with what caused this problem and we are awaiting word from the Acura dealer specific to what they found during their investigation. My wife does not want to drive this car if they indicate they can not find out what caused the car to suddenly accelerate. This could happen to anyone driving this car and needs to be investigated ASAP so no one will suffer. We were very lucky this time.

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I had two events. One while driving at 20 mph in my neighborhood and straight line driving and car suddenly accelerated. I threw car in neutral and stepped on gas hard for a second and cancelation stopped. Then five minutes later, while making a left turn, same exact event took place. I did the same thing. I had the brakes on hard and no stopping car. First time car has done this and I am only driver for six years. Brought to Acura and they sent a corporate mechanic to check and said they found nothing. Just got car back. A little scary.

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Sua incident. I slowly entered underground parking garage with brakes on, turned into parking stall (brakes on) and vehicle suddenly, rapidly accelerated, over riding brakes and crashed head on into cement wall causing airbag to deploy. Over $9000. 00 in damage was done to the vehicle. Witness behind me testified that I was going very slowly and the brake lights were on from the time I entered the parking garage to the time of the crash.