Recall Register

Buick Reatta: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 4 recall campaigns for the Buick Reatta, model years 1988 to 1993. NHTSA has 52 complaints on file for this model line. 1 of the 5 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. 19880
  2. 19891
  3. 19903
  4. 19910
  5. 19930
Buick Reatta: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1993 Buick Reatta NHTSA page0110%
1991 Buick Reatta NHTSA page0219%
1990 Buick Reatta329279%83,725
1989 Buick Reatta NHTSA page11096%10,535
1988 Buick Reatta NHTSA page01096%

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

56 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 Reatta: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic75042
Structure53.63
Visibility35.72
Service Brakes35.72
Seat Belts17.91
Engine and Engine Cooling17.91
Service Brakes, Air17.91
Exterior Lighting17.91
Tires17.91
Electrical System17.91

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Buick Reatta, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1990, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Buick Reatta, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2000, with 21 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Buick: all 27 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Buick Reatta: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/buick/reatta/. 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
30 Sep 2026
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 Reatta model years have the most recall campaigns?
1990 with 3, 1989 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Buick Reatta model year has the most complaints?
The 1990 model year, with 29 of the 52 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Buick Reatta name?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 750 per 1,000 component mentions. Structure: 53.6 per 1,000 component mentions. Visibility: 35.7 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Buick Reatta?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.