All,
I have been lurking for well to long and I wanted to let all of you know that your tips, tricks and complaints have been very helpful in my 2 year love hate relationship with my RDX.
I bought a 2007 RDX in October of 2006 and it’s probably about the 6000 one made.
Problems known in general order of repair
The driver door near the handle where the flip open change holder is not *fit* to the rest of the plastic. Fixed by dealer
The lights above the driver which house garage opener and other items stopped functioning to light up when the door opened. Fixed by dealer, they replaced the whole unit.
Then the head unit on the CD player went out. It never completely died, it gave me back my CDs but it wouldn’t play CDs. Replaced by Dealer.
Then the rear passenger door speaker went out. Replaced by Dealer.
Then we noticed that the tweeters in the back above the passengers head sounded really weird when playing low resolution music. The sound would come in and out when on Double Surround setting. The dealer said they did an update to the computer or something. I think it’s fixed.
Then the passenger front speaker went out. Also noticed that the breaks were grinding which was especially loud when going down hills. 25000 miles on the car at this pont. Also the triangular speaker cover was warping. Also, the car makes a “Muted clicking sound” which sounds like its coming from the VSA switch. This is especially loud when turning right but mostly only over bumps and not really consistently. Also, the car makes a rude farting noise when I start it. It’s really more of an errrrrrrrrreaaaaa noise. I figured out (with some help from this board) that the noise is most defiantly coming from the heating and cooling doors on the driver and passenger sides. They make a noise when the temperature changes or when I start up the car may adjust the doors all the way to the next extreme which causes the noise to happen. To replicate this noise for the dealer I figured out that if I cycle the temperature all the way to HI and down to Low one step at a time you can hear the motors or doors moving. Gottcha.
So what happened with the above pagargrahe. Well, the dealer found not one but 2 speakers were out (making a total of 3) the front pass tweeter speaker and the front PS door speaker. They for free resurfaced the front rotors and replaced the front brake pads. This made a huge difference but still considering upgrading to the yellow stuff this thing stops like a truck. They could not replicate the muted clicking sound; I think it’s getting worse so that should be left for next oil change. The farting door noise was not fixed, it’s now slightly worse or the same I think. They replaced the door mixing motors on both the passenger and the driver side but it didn’t help. On an upsetting note I heard that dash board creaking noise last week for the first time but it hasn’t made it since. They replaced the triangle speaker cover that was warped but it still looks warped to me. Thanks guys for pointing it out now I’m obsessed at looking at this thing that’s 3 centimeters out of place.
Getting 17.5 MPG avg.
Yeah fuel is 2.99 per gallon in Thousand Oaks.
Oh for those people who have had the A6 and B service? They still get me for $$$ It seems for an oil change but I have yet to have anything but A1 service come up on the car at 25500 miles. Maybe next time 40% oil life left.
Oh TSX was given as a loaner for the above last list of repairs took them 3 weeks to do. And that thing is way better then a V6 dodge charger (rented last week), but is now way as fun to floor as an RDX!!!
Oh since I probably won’t post for a while again. I noticed that today I set my navi to go somewhere and the display started showing me the exit ram cutting of the right half of the map 7 miles before I was supposed to get off!!! What the hell is that has anyone had that happen?

 

Reading about all your problems with your RDX gave me a headache! Wow. Sorry to hear about all your RDX issues. The only problem I've had in the 5 months I've had my '08 RDX was a failed passenger side window switch which was quickly fixed by the dealer.

Good luck.

 

Speaking of rattles, I noticed when my front windows are down any bit, they rattle a little. When I open and shut the dorr, you hear a rattle, as if the window isnt quite tight enough in it's cradle in the door.