1988 Cadillac Deville: recalls and complaints
NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 1988 Cadillac Deville. NHTSA has 28 complaints on file for this model year. 2 NHTSA investigations name this model year.
This page cannot show if a recall applies to one vehicle. The NHTSA VIN lookup shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle.
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 .
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Recall campaigns
No NHTSA recall campaign names the 1988 Cadillac Deville. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 28 complaints for it.
Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.
Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.
Complaints by component
28 complaints, 41 component mentions.
A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. This model year has fewer than 50 component mentions, so the table shows the number of mentions only.
| Component | Mentions |
|---|---|
| Vehicle Speed Control | 8 |
| Steering | 7 |
| Service Brakes, Hydraulic | 6 |
| Engine and Engine Cooling | 5 |
| Tires | 5 |
| Visibility | 3 |
| Electrical System | 2 |
| Unknown or Other | 1 |
| Equipment | 1 |
| Fuel System, Gasoline | 1 |
The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 12.
- Complaints that report a crash
- 2
- Complaints that report a fire
- 1
- Injuries in the complaints
- 1
- Deaths in the complaints
- 0
- Date of the newest complaint
- 26 Apr 2002
These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.
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.
Investigations
| Number | Type | Subject | Component | Opened | Closed | Campaign |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE89098 | Preliminary evaluation | ANTI LOCK BRAKES | Service Brakes, Hydraulic | 10 Mar 1989 | 17 May 1989 | |
| EA88031 | Engineering analysis | SUDDEN ACCELERATION | Vehicle Speed Control / Linkages | 22 Apr 1988 | 23 Oct 1989 |
Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.
Other model years
The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.
- 19640
- 19711
- 19722
- 19730
- 19741
- 19760
- 19772
- 19784
- 19791
- 19810
- 19821
- 19830
- 19840
- 19851
- 19862
- 19871
- 19880
- 19890
- 19900
- 19911
- 19921
- 19931
- 19940
- 19952
- 19962
- 19972
- 19983
- 19991
- 20005
- 20014
- 20025
- 20034
- 20041
- 20051
A year without a link has fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints. It has no page.
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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.
- NHTSA page of the 1988 Cadillac DevilleThe recalls, the complaints and the investigations that NHTSA shows for this model year.
Cite this page
Recall Register. 1988 Cadillac Deville: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/cadillac/deville/1988/. 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
- First complaint in the file
- 1 Jan 1995
- Manufacturer in the recall file
- GENERAL MOTORS CORP.
The NHTSA record is the authority. A complaint count is the number of different complaint numbers for the make, the model and the model year. How the register is made. Report an error.
Questions
- How many recall campaigns does the Cadillac Deville have for all model years?
- NHTSA lists 30 recall campaigns for the Cadillac Deville, model years 1964 to 2005. None of them names the 1988 model year.
- Which component do the complaints about the 1988 Cadillac Deville name most often?
- Vehicle Speed Control: 8 of 41 component mentions.
- Is an NHTSA investigation of the 1988 Cadillac Deville open?
- No. Each of the 2 investigations that name this model year has a closing date in the NHTSA file.