Recall Register

Buick Verano: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 11 recall campaigns for the Buick Verano, model years 2012 to 2017. NHTSA has 241 complaints on file for this model line. 4 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. 20123
  2. 20133
  3. 20146
  4. 20150
  5. 20162
  6. 20171
Buick Verano: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2017 Buick Verano NHTSA page112%8,367
2016 Buick Verano22357%8,556
2015 Buick Verano NHTSA page02460%
2014 Buick Verano658144%43,787
2013 Buick Verano369172%12,124
2012 Buick Verano366164%38,636

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

358 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 Verano: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Electrical System173.262
Engine170.461
Air Bags108.939
Unknown or Other8129
Steering69.825
Power Train64.223
Tires47.517
Wheels47.517
Electronic Stability Control (ESC)39.114
Vehicle Speed Control33.512

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Buick Verano, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2014, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the Buick Verano, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2018, with 54 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Buick: all 27 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Buick Verano: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/buick/verano/. 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 Verano model years have the most recall campaigns?
2014 with 6, 2013 with 3, 2012 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Buick Verano model year has the most complaints?
The 2013 model year, with 69 of the 241 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Buick Verano name?
Electrical System: 173.2 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine: 170.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Air Bags: 108.9 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Buick Verano?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.