2004 Acura TSX

midsize luxury car / 4-door sedan

2004 Acura TSX 4-door sedan

Crashworthiness

Rating overview
Moderate overlap front: original test
Head restraints & seats

Key

  • G
    Good
  • A
    Acceptable
  • M
    Marginal
  • P
    Poor
  • Superior
  • Advanced
  • Basic

Some ratings use a scale of Poor to Good. Others range from Basic to Superior.

Moderate overlap front: original test

Rating applies to 2004-08 models

Tested vehicle: 2004 Acura TSX 4-door

The Acura TSX was introduced in the 2004 model year.

Overall evaluation
Structure and safety cage
Driver injury measures
Head/neck
Chest
Leg/foot, left
Leg/foot, right
Driver restraints and dummy kinematics

Action shot taken during the frontal offset crash test.

The energy of the crash was absorbed by the front end of the car, preserving the driver's survival space very well.

Smeared greasepaint indicates where the dummy's head contacted the B-pillar, roof rail, grab handle, and head restraint during rebound. Head accelerations from these hits were low.

Forces on the lower right leg were high enough to indicate the possibility of injury.

Technical measurements for this test

Measures of occupant compartment intrusion on driver side

Test ID CEF0405
Footwell intrusion
Footrest (cm) 6
Left (cm) 8
Center (cm) 9
Right (cm) 6
Brake pedal (cm) 6
Instrument panel rearward movement
Left (cm) 0
Right (cm) 0
Steering column movement
Upward (cm) 4
Rearward (cm) -1
A-pillar rearward movement (cm) 0

Driver injury measures

Test ID CEF0405
Head
HIC-15 179
Peak gs at hard contact 19
Neck
Tension (kN) 1.0
Extension bending moment (Nm) 9
Maximum Nij 0.25
Chest maximum compression (mm) 28
Legs
Femur force - left (kN) 0.2
Femur force - right (kN) 3.1
Knee displacement - left (mm) 0
Knee displacement - right (mm) 0
Maximum tibia index - left 0.30
Maximum tibia index - right 0.99
Tibia axial force - left (kN) 2.0
Tibia axial force - right (kN) 4.6
Foot acceleration (g)
Left 75
Right 55

How the moderate overlap front test is conducted

Head restraints & seats

Seat type: All seats

Overall evaluation
Dynamic rating
Seat/head restraint geometry
Technical measurements for this test
Seat type All seats
Geometry
Backset (mm) 65
Distance below top of head (mm) 52
Seat design parameters
Pass/fail Fail
Max T1 acceleration (g) 10.5
Head contact time (ms) 105
Force rating 3
Neck forces
Max neck shear force (N) 175
Max neck tension (N) 1,253

How the head restraint & seat test is conducted
Currently, IIHS tests apply only to front seats.