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Cadillac Escalade EXT: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 16 recall campaigns for the Cadillac Escalade EXT, model years 2002 to 2013. NHTSA has 32 complaints on file for this model line. 9 of the 12 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. 20021
  2. 20032
  3. 20042
  4. 20051
  5. 20061
  6. 20075
  7. 20084
  8. 20095
  9. 20103
  10. 20114
  11. 20123
  12. 20133
Cadillac Escalade EXT: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2013 Cadillac Escalade EXT300%2,525,340
2012 Cadillac Escalade EXT300%2,146,965
2011 Cadillac Escalade EXT400%4,534,158
2010 Cadillac Escalade EXT300%5,111,926
2009 Cadillac Escalade EXT500%5,283,079
2008 Cadillac Escalade EXT4138%5,421,100
2007 Cadillac Escalade EXT54150%5,424,327
2006 Cadillac Escalade EXT NHTSA page100%32,068
2005 Cadillac Escalade EXT NHTSA page13113%7,194
2004 Cadillac Escalade EXT24150%3,731,086
2003 Cadillac Escalade EXT28300%3,731,086
2002 Cadillac Escalade EXT NHTSA page112450%3,662,211

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

46 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 Escalade EXT: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Electrical System260.912
Service Brakes, Hydraulic108.75
Power Train874
Air Bags874
Tires65.23
Steering65.23
Fuel System, Gasoline65.23
Structure43.52
Electronic Stability Control43.52
Equipment43.52

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Cadillac Escalade EXT, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2021, with 5 campaigns.
Complaints about the Cadillac Escalade EXT, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2005, with 7 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Cadillac: all 36 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Cadillac Escalade EXT: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/cadillac/escalade-ext/. 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 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 Escalade EXT model years have the most recall campaigns?
2009 with 5, 2007 with 5, 2011 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Cadillac Escalade EXT model year has the most complaints?
The 2002 model year, with 12 of the 32 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Cadillac Escalade EXT name?
Electrical System: 12 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 5 component mentions. Power Train: 4 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Cadillac Escalade EXT?
4 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.