Recall Register

1987 Buick Century: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 1987 Buick Century. NHTSA has 28 complaints on file for this model year. 5 NHTSA investigations name this model year.

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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.

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Recall campaigns

No NHTSA recall campaign names the 1987 Buick Century. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 28 complaints for it.

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

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

Complaints by component

28 complaints, 32 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. This model year has fewer than 50 component mentions, so the table shows the number of mentions only.

1987 Buick Century: component mentions in complaints
ComponentMentions
Steering10
Electrical System3
Power Train3
Engine and Engine Cooling3
Seat Belts2
Vehicle Speed Control2
Service Brakes, Hydraulic2
Wheels1
Fuel System, Gasoline1
Suspension1

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 14.

Complaints that report a crash
2
Complaints that report a fire
2
Injuries in the complaints
0
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
22 Jul 2009

These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.

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.

Complaints about the 1987 Buick Century, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1995, with 8 complaints.

Investigations

NHTSA investigations that name the 1987 Buick Century
NumberTypeSubjectComponentOpenedClosedCampaign
EA92024Engineering analysisSTICKING THROTTLEVehicle Speed Control / Linkages26 Jun 199231 Jan 1994
EA89026Engineering analysisLOSS OF POWER STEERINGSteering12 Jun 19899 Oct 1990
PE89105Preliminary evaluationPOWER STEERING HOSE FAILSSteering20 Mar 198912 Jun 1989
EA89010Engineering analysisBRAKE INEFFECTIVENESSService Brakes, Hydraulic17 Jan 19898 May 1990
EA87022Engineering analysisSTALLINGVehicle Speed Control / Linkages27 Aug 198727 Nov 1991

Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.

Other model years

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

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 1987 Buick Century: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/buick/century/1987/. 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
29 Mar 2018
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

The NHTSA record is the authority. A complaint count is the number of different complaint numbers for the make, the model and the model year. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

How many recall campaigns does the Buick Century have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 55 recall campaigns for the Buick Century, model years 1973 to 2005. None of them names the 1987 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 1987 Buick Century name most often?
Steering: 10 of 32 component mentions.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 1987 Buick Century open?
No. Each of the 5 investigations that name this model year has a closing date in the NHTSA file.