was reading consumer reports December 2011 magazine and came across this:


wow audi was the worst in reliability...so bad!

 

Good to know - maybe someone should tell mikeshahabi this? lol

https://acurazine.com/forums/1g-rdx-2007-2012-147/rdx-t-he-worst-compact-suv-ever-838648/

 

nice find.. and this is from their LATEST magazine even after ALL the competition that is still out there...nice to see our RDX at the top!

 

Nice! I love my reliable RDX.

 

Acura does make the best used luxury cars around.

I think Honda and Acura were rated in the top 5 in reliability out of all car brands. The Audi Q5 really surprised me. I imagine the VW Tiquan is rated about the same as the Q5.

 

Thanks for making me love my RDX even more

 

good for acura - now they will continue on selling used cars, not new competing models.

but still - great news. unfortunately, i must have gotten TWO of the most unreliable RDX's and the most reliable Q5.

 

Well, you did get a (RDX) lemon to begin with...

 

i'm not sure if this has to do with reliability but i'm still on original brakes, and tires at 60,000 miles. brake pedal feel is very soft though now but still good braking. will need some brake line bleeding and pads and probably new front rotors.

 

Wow...60K on the original tires? That's impressive. I'm still on my original brakes at 62K - but I just put on my third set of tires.

 

Definitely nothing to do with reliability. Still impressive.
I am also on originals at 56K miles.

 

wow - my original michelens didn't even make 40K, but brakes still had more than half life at that time

 

Note the Audi Q-5 is off the deep end of the chart...

 

yep still got tread left too

 

front brakes & fluid around 50k. Trashed the mich's around 30k but still had enough tread to 45k miles. Prob going to get around 30k out of the Conti's tho.

 

Wow, you are either easy on the corners or do lots of freeway driving. I think we got 45k out of the stock Mich. Towards the end the road noise and lack of traction were just too much for me (Although below 50deg the Yoko's aren't much better).

 

haha if taking ramps at 45mph is easy and merging @WOT then ya, i'm easy in the corners. My avg speed is about ~30mph so that's about what ~60% highway?? i have rotated them every 10k miles and always kept pressure at 30-32 psi to dampen the stiff ride.

 

I took Audi S5 engine apart and you better believe the rating below. that V6 motor has only two gaskets, the head gaskets, everything else is siliconed!

I wasn't impressed with Audi's engineering and quality of materials inside the engine bay. BMW is much better when comparing all German manufacturers. You can't tell how well the car is made until you take it apart to the frame, that's why I choose RDX for my daily driver.