Buick Lesabre: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 46 recall campaigns for the Buick Lesabre, model years 1967 to 2006. NHTSA has 3,676 complaints on file for this model line. 29 of the 36 model years have a page on this register.

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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.
NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on 1 Oct 2026. Complaint file through 15 May 2019. Recall file through 29 Sep 2026.

Model years

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

Buick Lesabre: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model year	Recall campaigns	Complaints	Share of the line average	Units in the campaigns
2006 Buick Lesabre NHTSA page	0	3	3%
2005 Buick Lesabre	0	71	70%
2004 Buick Lesabre	0	154	151%
2003 Buick Lesabre	1	154	151%	133,221
2002 Buick Lesabre	2	306	300%	133,470
2001 Buick Lesabre	0	323	316%
2000 Buick Lesabre	5	653	639%	957,002
1999 Buick Lesabre	2	209	205%	1,010,206
1998 Buick Lesabre	1	399	391%	910,873
1997 Buick Lesabre	2	392	384%	290,933
1996 Buick Lesabre	2	98	96%	308,680
1995 Buick Lesabre	1	178	174%	12,832
1994 Buick Lesabre	0	158	155%
1993 Buick Lesabre	1	194	190%	585,182
1992 Buick Lesabre	2	189	185%	605,947
1991 Buick Lesabre	0	30	29%
1990 Buick Lesabre	0	46	45%
1989 Buick Lesabre	2	27	26%	1,661
1988 Buick Lesabre	3	21	21%	1,792,360
1987 Buick Lesabre	4	40	39%	2,243,505
1986 Buick Lesabre	2	16	16%	1,862,008
1985 Buick Lesabre NHTSA page	1	5	5%	1,755,897
1984 Buick Lesabre	2	5	5%	1,756,417
1983 Buick Lesabre NHTSA page	0	1	1%
1982 Buick Lesabre NHTSA page	1	1	1%	79,686
1981 Buick Lesabre	3	0	0%	23,816
1979 Buick Lesabre	2	1	1%	1,341,732
1978 Buick Lesabre	2	0	0%	338,123
1977 Buick Lesabre	3	1	1%	122,229
1976 Buick Lesabre	2	0	0%	42,289
1975 Buick Lesabre	3	0	0%	5,827
1974 Buick Lesabre NHTSA page	1	0	0%	782,111
1972 Buick Lesabre NHTSA page	1	0	0%	3,707,064
1971 Buick Lesabre	3	1	1%	3,752,949
1970 Buick Lesabre	2	0	0%	5,705
1967 Buick Lesabre NHTSA page	1	0	0%	6,919

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

4,790 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 Lesabre: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component	Per 1,000	Mentions
Engine and Engine Cooling	155.9	747
Visibility	119.8	574
Electrical System	116.9	560
Service Brakes, Hydraulic	86.8	416
Air Bags	61.2	293
Structure	60.5	290
Power Train	53.4	256
Fuel System, Gasoline	52.2	250
Steering	47	225
Tires	31.1	149

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Buick Lesabre, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1999, with 4 campaigns.

Complaints about the Buick Lesabre, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2004, with 331 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Regal98 campaigns
Century55 campaigns
Lacrosse23 campaigns
Park Avenue16 campaigns
Enclave29 campaigns
Rendezvous9 campaigns
Lucerne6 campaigns
Skylark50 campaigns
Rainier10 campaigns
Roadmaster11 campaigns
Riviera33 campaigns
Verano11 campaigns
Terraza3 campaigns
Encore13 campaigns
Reatta4 campaigns
Electra29 campaigns
Envision9 campaigns
Skyhawk17 campaigns
Estate8 campaigns
Encore GX4 campaigns
Estate Wagon6 campaigns
Apollo7 campaigns
Wildcat5 campaigns
Centurion3 campaigns
Envista2 campaigns
Special3 campaigns

Buick: all 27 model lines

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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 Lesabre: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/buick/lesabre/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through 29 Sep 2026.

Sources

Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence: US government work, public domain
Recall file through: 29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through: 15 May 2019
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 Lesabre model years have the most recall campaigns?: 2000 with 5, 1987 with 4, 1988 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Buick Lesabre model year has the most complaints?: The 2000 model year, with 653 of the 3,676 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Buick Lesabre name?: Engine and Engine Cooling: 155.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Visibility: 119.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 116.9 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Buick Lesabre?: 21 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.