Cadillac Escalade: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 52 recall campaigns for the Cadillac Escalade, model years 1999 to 2026. NHTSA has 827 complaints on file for this model line. 24 of the 27 model years have a page on this register.

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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 1 Oct 2026. Complaint file through 15 May 2019. Recall file through 29 Sep 2026.

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

Cadillac Escalade: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model year	Recall campaigns	Complaints	Share of the line average	Units in the campaigns
2026 Cadillac Escalade	3	0	0%	8,384
2025 Cadillac Escalade NHTSA page	1	0	0%	2,457
2024 Cadillac Escalade	2	0	0%	1,047,242
2023 Cadillac Escalade	4	0	0%	1,787,539
2022 Cadillac Escalade	4	0	0%	1,865,577
2021 Cadillac Escalade	9	0	0%	2,280,759
2020 Cadillac Escalade	2	0	0%	34,340
2018 Cadillac Escalade NHTSA page	1	2	7%	14,620
2017 Cadillac Escalade	2	9	29%	7,096,881
2016 Cadillac Escalade	4	21	69%	7,141,302
2015 Cadillac Escalade	9	33	108%	8,487,659
2014 Cadillac Escalade	2	7	23%	1,884,435
2013 Cadillac Escalade	4	7	23%	2,631,647
2012 Cadillac Escalade	3	11	36%	2,146,965
2011 Cadillac Escalade	6	30	98%	4,536,159
2010 Cadillac Escalade	3	24	78%	5,111,926
2009 Cadillac Escalade	5	39	127%	5,283,079
2008 Cadillac Escalade	4	91	297%	5,421,100
2007 Cadillac Escalade	4	156	509%	5,421,100
2006 Cadillac Escalade	2	19	62%	155,660
2005 Cadillac Escalade	2	31	101%	1,367,018
2004 Cadillac Escalade	2	58	189%	1,428,699
2003 Cadillac Escalade	4	71	232%	1,429,455
2002 Cadillac Escalade	1	107	349%	558,904
2001 Cadillac Escalade NHTSA page	0	3	10%
2000 Cadillac Escalade	1	69	225%	4,300
1999 Cadillac Escalade	2	39	127%	283,432

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

1,124 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: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component	Per 1,000	Mentions
Air Bags	185.9	209
Electrical System	130.8	147
Service Brakes, Hydraulic	62.3	70
Power Train	52.5	59
Engine	48	54
Service Brakes	47.2	53
Structure	42.7	48
Unknown or Other	40	45
Seats	38.3	43
Steering	37.4	42

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Cadillac Escalade, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2021, with 9 campaigns.

Complaints about the Cadillac Escalade, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2017, with 121 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Deville30 campaigns
CTS27 campaigns
SRX24 campaigns
Seville31 campaigns
Eldorado28 campaigns
Catera0 campaigns
DTS6 campaigns
STS7 campaigns
Allante2 campaigns
Fleetwood20 campaigns
ATS11 campaigns
Escalade ESV42 campaigns
XTS10 campaigns
Escalade EXT16 campaigns
Cadillac8 campaigns
XLR4 campaigns
XT515 campaigns
Brougham18 campaigns
Cimarron8 campaigns
ELR2 campaigns
CT6 Plug-In Hybrid2 campaigns
Limousine7 campaigns
CT68 campaigns
XT48 campaigns
Lyriq11 campaigns
XT612 campaigns
CT56 campaigns
CT45 campaigns
Optiq3 campaigns
Hearse3 campaigns
Calais3 campaigns
Escalade NA4 campaigns
Vistiq4 campaigns
Escalade IQ2 campaigns
Escalade IQL2 campaigns

Cadillac: all 36 model lines

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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 Escalade: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/cadillac/escalade/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through 29 Sep 2026.

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 Escalade model years have the most recall campaigns?: 2021 with 9, 2015 with 9, 2011 with 6. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Cadillac Escalade model year has the most complaints?: The 2007 model year, with 156 of the 827 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Cadillac Escalade name?: Air Bags: 185.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 130.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 62.3 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Cadillac Escalade?: 14 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.