Recall Register

American Motors Gremlin: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 12 recall campaigns for the American Motors Gremlin, model years 1970 to 1978. NHTSA has no complaint on file for this model line. 4 of the 9 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19701
  2. 19711
  3. 19723
  4. 19732
  5. 19741
  6. 19754
  7. 19762
  8. 19771
  9. 19781
American Motors Gremlin: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1978 American Motors Gremlin NHTSA page102,041
1977 American Motors Gremlin NHTSA page103,085
1976 American Motors Gremlin20544,926
1975 American Motors Gremlin40546,753
1974 American Motors Gremlin NHTSA page10411,333
1973 American Motors Gremlin20271,855
1972 American Motors Gremlin30274,743
1971 American Motors Gremlin NHTSA page1019,111
1970 American Motors Gremlin NHTSA page102,498

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the American Motors Gremlin, by the year NHTSA received the report.
Complaints about the American Motors Gremlin, by the year NHTSA received them.

Other model lines of the make

American Motors: all 12 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. American Motors Gremlin: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/american-motors/gremlin/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
Manufacturer in the recall file
CHRYSLER CORPORATION

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which American Motors Gremlin model years have the most recall campaigns?
1975 with 4, 1972 with 3, 1976 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which American Motors Gremlin model year has the most complaints?
The NHTSA complaint file has no complaint for this model line.