The 2002 Acura TL has 7 recalls, the most serious being a Takata airbag inflator defect where the driver's frontal airbag can explode and send metal fragments into the cabin, causing serious injury or death.
The front seatbelt buckles on both the driver and passenger sides were improperly manufactured and may fail to hold in a crash, leaving occupants unrestrained at the moment they need protection most. On the electrical side, the driver's door power window control unit can fail due to moisture, causing the window to move on its own or stop responding to the switch entirely. More critically, the auto-reverse function that prevents the window from closing on an arm or hand can stop working, raising the risk of injury.