Cadillac CTS: recalls and complaints by model year
NHTSA lists 27 recall campaigns for the Cadillac CTS, model years 2003 to 2018. NHTSA has 545 complaints on file for this model line. 16 of the 16 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.
| Model year | Recall campaigns | Complaints | Share of the line average | Units in the campaigns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 Cadillac CTS | 2 | 0 | 0% | 27,706 |
| 2017 Cadillac CTS | 2 | 0 | 0% | 27,706 |
| 2016 Cadillac CTS | 4 | 0 | 0% | 85,587 |
| 2015 Cadillac CTS | 3 | 0 | 0% | 60,044 |
| 2014 Cadillac CTS | 6 | 0 | 0% | 947,484 |
| 2013 Cadillac CTS | 2 | 0 | 0% | 660,635 |
| 2012 Cadillac CTS | 2 | 0 | 0% | 555,002 |
| 2011 Cadillac CTS | 2 | 0 | 0% | 571,260 |
| 2010 Cadillac CTS | 3 | 3 | 9% | 618,699 |
| 2009 Cadillac CTS | 5 | 24 | 70% | 1,996,431 |
| 2008 Cadillac CTS | 2 | 36 | 106% | 1,919,398 |
| 2007 Cadillac CTS | 6 | 45 | 132% | 1,092,004 |
| 2006 Cadillac CTS | 6 | 62 | 182% | 1,092,789 |
| 2005 Cadillac CTS | 6 | 102 | 299% | 1,092,789 |
| 2004 Cadillac CTS | 6 | 115 | 338% | 839,163 |
| 2003 Cadillac CTS | 4 | 158 | 464% | 2,449,119 |
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
745 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.
| Component | Per 1,000 | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Power Train | 244.3 | 182 |
| Service Brakes, Hydraulic | 91.3 | 68 |
| Engine and Engine Cooling | 84.6 | 63 |
| Air Bags | 79.2 | 59 |
| Electrical System | 60.4 | 45 |
| Suspension | 53.7 | 40 |
| Exterior Lighting | 48.3 | 36 |
| Steering | 47 | 35 |
| Vehicle Speed Control | 47 | 35 |
| Structure | 41.6 | 31 |
Counts by year
Other model lines of the make
- Deville30 campaigns
- Seville31 campaigns
- Catera0 campaigns
- Eldorado28 campaigns
- Escalade52 campaigns
- SRX24 campaigns
- Allante2 campaigns
- Fleetwood20 campaigns
- STS7 campaigns
- DTS6 campaigns
- Cadillac8 campaigns
- Brougham18 campaigns
- Escalade ESV42 campaigns
- Escalade EXT16 campaigns
- Cimarron8 campaigns
- XLR4 campaigns
- Limousine7 campaigns
- ATS11 campaigns
- XT515 campaigns
- Lyriq11 campaigns
- XTS10 campaigns
- XT612 campaigns
- CT56 campaigns
- XT48 campaigns
- CT45 campaigns
- CT68 campaigns
- Optiq3 campaigns
- Hearse3 campaigns
- Calais3 campaigns
- Escalade NA4 campaigns
- Vistiq4 campaigns
- CT6 Plug-In Hybrid2 campaigns
- ELR2 campaigns
- Escalade IQ2 campaigns
- Escalade IQL2 campaigns
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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. Cadillac CTS: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/cadillac/cts/. 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
- 29 Mar 2018
- 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 Cadillac CTS model years have the most recall campaigns?
- 2014 with 6, 2007 with 6, 2006 with 6. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
- Which Cadillac CTS model year has the most complaints?
- The 2003 model year, with 158 of the 545 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
- Which components do the complaints about the Cadillac CTS name?
- Power Train: 244.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 91.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 84.6 per 1,000 component mentions.
- How many NHTSA investigations name the Cadillac CTS?
- 3 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.