TXDani
Senior Community Member
IIHS tested the 2007 Acura MDX and gave it a 'marginal' rating for the rear crash test a few months ago. This in turn gave the MDX an Informed For Life score of 55.8. Now a few months later Acura has re-designed their headrest and IIHS re-tested them and they received a rating of 'good' which made it a best pick by IIHS and brings their Informed For Life score 53.7.
Unfortunately the MDX's with the new headrests will not be sold until June. I called Acura about this and was told they have no intention of doing a recall or providing current MDX owners with the new headrests. My husband and I are safety nuts and will probably just buy the new re-designed headrests if Acura doesn't provide them to owners...which I don't expect they will do. But then looking at the informed for life scores...does it really seem like that big of a deal? The difference is very slight...I guess it will boil down to how much the new headrests cost.
Point of this post...I had no clue a change in headrests could change a crash rating by 2 categories for a car!!!
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070514/crash_tests.html?.v=2
Unfortunately the MDX's with the new headrests will not be sold until June. I called Acura about this and was told they have no intention of doing a recall or providing current MDX owners with the new headrests. My husband and I are safety nuts and will probably just buy the new re-designed headrests if Acura doesn't provide them to owners...which I don't expect they will do. But then looking at the informed for life scores...does it really seem like that big of a deal? The difference is very slight...I guess it will boil down to how much the new headrests cost.
Point of this post...I had no clue a change in headrests could change a crash rating by 2 categories for a car!!!
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070514/crash_tests.html?.v=2