Recall Register

Cadillac Brougham: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 18 recall campaigns for the Cadillac Brougham, model years 1972 to 1996. NHTSA has 49 complaints on file for this model line. 9 of the 17 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. 19721
  2. 19741
  3. 19772
  4. 19782
  5. 19841
  6. 19852
  7. 19862
  8. 19875
  9. 19889
  10. 19897
  11. 19909
  12. 19915
  13. 19920
  14. 19930
  15. 19940
  16. 19950
  17. 19960
Cadillac Brougham: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1996 Cadillac Brougham NHTSA page04139%
1995 Cadillac Brougham NHTSA page03104%
1994 Cadillac Brougham NHTSA page05173%
1993 Cadillac Brougham NHTSA page03104%
1992 Cadillac Brougham NHTSA page06208%
1991 Cadillac Brougham56208%710
1990 Cadillac Brougham910347%973
1989 Cadillac Brougham7269%1,021
1988 Cadillac Brougham9269%1,762,036
1987 Cadillac Brougham56208%1,756,541
1986 Cadillac Brougham2135%1,756,064
1985 Cadillac Brougham2135%1,755,988
1984 Cadillac Brougham NHTSA page100%1,755,897
1978 Cadillac Brougham200%761,333
1977 Cadillac Brougham200%761,333
1974 Cadillac Brougham NHTSA page100%5,128
1972 Cadillac Brougham NHTSA page100%37,500

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

69 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.

Cadillac Brougham: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Vehicle Speed Control115.98
Seat Belts101.47
Engine and Engine Cooling876
Structure72.55
Service Brakes, Hydraulic72.55
Electrical System584
Seats584
Steering43.53
Wheels43.53
Fuel System, Gasoline43.53

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Cadillac Brougham, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1991, with 8 campaigns.
Complaints about the Cadillac Brougham, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1995, with 12 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Cadillac: all 36 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Cadillac Brougham: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/cadillac/brougham/. 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 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 Cadillac Brougham model years have the most recall campaigns?
1990 with 9, 1988 with 9, 1989 with 7. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Cadillac Brougham model year has the most complaints?
The 1990 model year, with 10 of the 49 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Cadillac Brougham name?
Vehicle Speed Control: 115.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Seat Belts: 101.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 87 per 1,000 component mentions.