Cadillac Fleetwood: recalls and complaints by model year
NHTSA lists 20 recall campaigns for the Cadillac Fleetwood, model years 1971 to 1998. NHTSA has 169 complaints on file for this model line. 10 of the 21 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.
- 19711
- 19721
- 19771
- 19782
- 19791
- 19810
- 19831
- 19841
- 19852
- 19864
- 19873
- 19882
- 19891
- 19900
- 19912
- 19921
- 19932
- 19945
- 19955
- 19962
- 19980
| Model year | Recall campaigns | Complaints | Share of the line average | Units in the campaigns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 Cadillac Fleetwood NHTSA page | 0 | 3 | 37% | |
| 1996 Cadillac Fleetwood | 2 | 16 | 199% | 123,985 |
| 1995 Cadillac Fleetwood | 5 | 18 | 224% | 294,732 |
| 1994 Cadillac Fleetwood | 5 | 16 | 199% | 226,542 |
| 1993 Cadillac Fleetwood | 2 | 31 | 385% | 403,310 |
| 1992 Cadillac Fleetwood NHTSA page | 1 | 8 | 99% | 403,273 |
| 1991 Cadillac Fleetwood | 2 | 14 | 174% | 403,286 |
| 1990 Cadillac Fleetwood NHTSA page | 0 | 21 | 261% | |
| 1989 Cadillac Fleetwood NHTSA page | 1 | 15 | 186% | 544 |
| 1988 Cadillac Fleetwood | 2 | 3 | 37% | 767 |
| 1987 Cadillac Fleetwood | 3 | 7 | 87% | 12,703 |
| 1986 Cadillac Fleetwood | 4 | 7 | 87% | 102,751 |
| 1985 Cadillac Fleetwood | 2 | 6 | 75% | 767 |
| 1984 Cadillac Fleetwood NHTSA page | 1 | 1 | 12% | 544 |
| 1983 Cadillac Fleetwood NHTSA page | 1 | 1 | 12% | 544 |
| 1981 Cadillac Fleetwood NHTSA page | 0 | 1 | 12% | |
| 1979 Cadillac Fleetwood NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 1,326,404 |
| 1978 Cadillac Fleetwood | 2 | 1 | 12% | 394,013 |
| 1977 Cadillac Fleetwood NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 388,867 |
| 1972 Cadillac Fleetwood NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 388,877 |
| 1971 Cadillac Fleetwood NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 388,877 |
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
261 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Service Brakes, Hydraulic | 176.2 | 46 |
| Engine and Engine Cooling | 111.1 | 29 |
| Electrical System | 92 | 24 |
| Vehicle Speed Control | 72.8 | 19 |
| Fuel System, Gasoline | 61.3 | 16 |
| Power Train | 57.5 | 15 |
| Structure | 53.6 | 14 |
| Steering | 53.6 | 14 |
| Seat Belts | 49.8 | 13 |
| Suspension | 46 | 12 |
Counts by year
Other model lines of the make
- Deville30 campaigns
- Seville31 campaigns
- CTS27 campaigns
- Catera0 campaigns
- Eldorado28 campaigns
- Escalade52 campaigns
- SRX24 campaigns
- Allante2 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 Fleetwood: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/cadillac/fleetwood/. 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
- 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 Fleetwood model years have the most recall campaigns?
- 1995 with 5, 1994 with 5, 1986 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
- Which Cadillac Fleetwood model year has the most complaints?
- The 1993 model year, with 31 of the 169 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
- Which components do the complaints about the Cadillac Fleetwood name?
- Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 176.2 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 111.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 92 per 1,000 component mentions.
- How many NHTSA investigations name the Cadillac Fleetwood?
- 11 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.