Buick Electra: recalls and complaints by model year
NHTSA lists 29 recall campaigns for the Buick Electra, model years 1965 to 1991. NHTSA has 35 complaints on file for this model line. 11 of the 23 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.
- 19651
- 19661
- 19671
- 19702
- 19713
- 19722
- 19741
- 19752
- 19762
- 19772
- 19781
- 19792
- 19812
- 19821
- 19830
- 19842
- 19850
- 19863
- 19872
- 19880
- 19890
- 19901
- 19910
| Model year | Recall campaigns | Complaints | Share of the line average | Units in the campaigns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 Buick Electra NHTSA page | 0 | 1 | 66% | |
| 1990 Buick Electra NHTSA page | 1 | 4 | 263% | 51,834 |
| 1989 Buick Electra NHTSA page | 0 | 2 | 131% | |
| 1988 Buick Electra NHTSA page | 0 | 5 | 329% | |
| 1987 Buick Electra | 2 | 4 | 263% | 514,772 |
| 1986 Buick Electra | 3 | 12 | 789% | 200,783 |
| 1985 Buick Electra NHTSA page | 0 | 1 | 66% | |
| 1984 Buick Electra | 2 | 2 | 131% | 1,756,417 |
| 1983 Buick Electra NHTSA page | 0 | 2 | 131% | |
| 1982 Buick Electra NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 79,686 |
| 1981 Buick Electra | 2 | 0 | 0% | 4,708 |
| 1979 Buick Electra | 2 | 0 | 0% | 1,341,732 |
| 1978 Buick Electra NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 333,619 |
| 1977 Buick Electra | 2 | 1 | 66% | 122,196 |
| 1976 Buick Electra | 2 | 0 | 0% | 42,289 |
| 1975 Buick Electra | 2 | 0 | 0% | 3,249 |
| 1974 Buick Electra NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 782,111 |
| 1972 Buick Electra | 2 | 0 | 0% | 3,748,775 |
| 1971 Buick Electra | 3 | 0 | 0% | 3,752,949 |
| 1970 Buick Electra | 2 | 0 | 0% | 5,705 |
| 1967 Buick Electra NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 209,562 |
| 1966 Buick Electra NHTSA page | 1 | 1 | 66% | 811,180 |
| 1965 Buick Electra NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 209,562 |
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.
Components in the complaints
46 component mentions.
A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.
| Component | Per 1,000 | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Service Brakes, Hydraulic | 195.7 | 9 |
| Engine and Engine Cooling | 130.4 | 6 |
| Steering | 130.4 | 6 |
| Vehicle Speed Control | 108.7 | 5 |
| Seats | 87 | 4 |
| Seat Belts | 87 | 4 |
| Exterior Lighting | 65.2 | 3 |
| Tires | 43.5 | 2 |
| Electrical System | 43.5 | 2 |
| Power Train | 43.5 | 2 |
Counts by year
Other model lines of the make
- Lesabre46 campaigns
- Regal98 campaigns
- Century55 campaigns
- Park Avenue16 campaigns
- Rendezvous9 campaigns
- Skylark50 campaigns
- Roadmaster11 campaigns
- Riviera33 campaigns
- Lucerne6 campaigns
- Lacrosse23 campaigns
- Rainier10 campaigns
- Terraza3 campaigns
- Enclave29 campaigns
- Reatta4 campaigns
- Skyhawk17 campaigns
- Estate8 campaigns
- Encore13 campaigns
- Envision9 campaigns
- Verano11 campaigns
- Encore GX4 campaigns
- Estate Wagon6 campaigns
- Apollo7 campaigns
- Wildcat5 campaigns
- Centurion3 campaigns
- Envista2 campaigns
- Special3 campaigns
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Official channels
- NHTSA VIN lookupNHTSA shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle from its VIN or its license plate.
- NHTSA: report a safety problemThe NHTSA form for a complaint about a vehicle, a tire, a child seat or equipment.
Cite this page
Recall Register. Buick Electra: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/buick/electra/. 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
- 29 Sep 2026
- Complaint file through
- 29 Mar 2018
- Manufacturer in the recall file
- GENERAL MOTORS CORP.
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 Buick Electra model years have the most recall campaigns?
- 1986 with 3, 1971 with 3, 1987 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
- Which Buick Electra model year has the most complaints?
- The 1986 model year, with 12 of the 35 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
- Which components do the complaints about the Buick Electra name?
- Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 9 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 6 component mentions. Steering: 6 component mentions.
- How many NHTSA investigations name the Buick Electra?
- 7 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.