Recall Register

Buick Lucerne: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 6 recall campaigns for the Buick Lucerne, model years 2006 to 2011. NHTSA has 802 complaints on file for this model line. 6 of the 6 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. 20064
  2. 20074
  3. 20083
  4. 20092
  5. 20102
  6. 20112
Buick Lucerne: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2011 Buick Lucerne23627%3,155,511
2010 Buick Lucerne23728%3,155,511
2009 Buick Lucerne210176%4,506,801
2008 Buick Lucerne3161120%5,364,536
2007 Buick Lucerne4156117%5,381,213
2006 Buick Lucerne4311233%5,377,398

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

1,114 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 Lucerne: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Electrical System281313
Structure82.692
Steering68.276
Air Bags67.375
Fuel/Propulsion System62.870
Engine5359
Vehicle Speed Control36.841
Wheels3539
Latches/Locks/Linkages26.930
Suspension2629

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Buick Lucerne, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2010, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Buick Lucerne, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2014, with 165 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Buick: all 27 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Buick Lucerne: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/buick/lucerne/. 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
15 May 2019
Manufacturer in the recall file
General Motors LLC

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 Lucerne model years have the most recall campaigns?
2007 with 4, 2006 with 4, 2008 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Buick Lucerne model year has the most complaints?
The 2006 model year, with 311 of the 802 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Buick Lucerne name?
Electrical System: 281 per 1,000 component mentions. Structure: 82.6 per 1,000 component mentions. Steering: 68.2 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Buick Lucerne?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.