Recall Register

Buick Estate: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 8 recall campaigns for the Buick Estate, model years 1974 to 1994. NHTSA has 6 complaints on file for this model line. 3 of the 13 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. 19742
  2. 19751
  3. 19771
  4. 19781
  5. 19791
  6. 19841
  7. 19851
  8. 19863
  9. 19872
  10. 19881
  11. 19900
  12. 19930
  13. 19940
Buick Estate: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1994 Buick Estate NHTSA page01217%
1993 Buick Estate NHTSA page01217%
1990 Buick Estate NHTSA page01217%
1988 Buick Estate NHTSA page100%1,755,897
1987 Buick Estate200%1,767,833
1986 Buick Estate33650%1,955,325
1985 Buick Estate NHTSA page100%1,755,897
1984 Buick Estate NHTSA page100%1,755,897
1979 Buick Estate NHTSA page100%476,245
1978 Buick Estate NHTSA page100%476,245
1977 Buick Estate NHTSA page100%476,245
1975 Buick Estate NHTSA page100%2,562
1974 Buick Estate200%789,491

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

7 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.

Buick Estate: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic428.63
Suspension142.91
Seat Belts142.91
Fuel System, Gasoline142.91
Power Train142.91

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Buick Estate, by the year NHTSA received the report.
Complaints about the Buick Estate, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1997, with 2 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Buick: all 27 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Buick Estate: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/buick/estate/. 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 Estate model years have the most recall campaigns?
1986 with 3, 1987 with 2, 1974 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Buick Estate model year has the most complaints?
The 1986 model year, with 3 of the 6 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Buick Estate name?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 3 component mentions. Suspension: 1 component mention. Seat Belts: 1 component mention.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Buick Estate?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.