The 2012 Acura RL has 6 recalls, all involving Takata airbag inflators on both the driver and passenger sides that can rupture and send metal fragments into the cabin, causing serious injury or death.
All six recalls address the same underlying hazard: frontal airbag inflators that can explode with excessive force during deployment. The driver-side and passenger-side inflators are both affected. Some of these recalls were filed specifically for vehicles registered in high-humidity regions such as Florida, Hawaii, and the Gulf Coast states, where moisture accelerates the degradation that makes rupture more likely, while others apply more broadly regardless of where the vehicle has been registered.