Recall Register

1981 Cadillac Seville: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists 2 recall campaigns for the 1981 Cadillac Seville. The newest campaign is 81V075000. NHTSA received the report on 18 Jun 1981. The NHTSA record gives the component Seat Belts / Front / Retractor. NHTSA has 1 complaint on file for this model year.

The NHTSA recall file shows no do-not-drive advisory and no park-outside advisory on these campaigns.

This page cannot show if a recall applies to one vehicle. The NHTSA VIN lookup shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle.

Remedy of the newest campaign, 81V075000, in the NHTSA record

The dealer will inspect and, if necessary, align the seat belt interlock assemblies properly at no charge to owner.
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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.

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Recall campaigns

2 campaigns, newest first. 9,155 units in total.

  1. 81V075000Received . 85 units.

    Seat Belts / Front / Retractor

    Defect, in the NHTSA record
    The involved vehicles do not conform to federal motor vehicle safety standard no. 210, "seat belt assembly anchorages", in that the door frame-to-body center pillar interlock on the front seat belts of these vehicles may be misaligned.
    Remedy, in the NHTSA record
    The dealer will inspect and, if necessary, align the seat belt interlock assemblies properly at no charge to owner.

    Report filed by GENERAL MOTORS CORP.. Owner notification date in the NHTSA record: .

  2. 81V073000Received . 9,070 units.

    Suspension / Front / Control Arm / Upper Arm

    Defect, in the NHTSA record
    The front left upper control arm nuts may not have been securely tightened. The nuts may loosen and come off and with continued driving the control arm front bolt may work its way out of position or become displaced.

    Report filed by GENERAL MOTORS CORP..

The campaign number opens the NHTSA record. Each quotation is the text of the NHTSA recall file.

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

1 complaint, 1 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.

1981 Cadillac Seville: component mentions in complaints
ComponentMentions
Vehicle Speed Control1
Complaints that report a crash
0
Complaints that report a fire
0
Injuries in the complaints
3
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
17 Nov 1997

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.

Complaints about the 1981 Cadillac Seville, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1997, with 1 complaint.

Investigations

The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.

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.

  1. 19761
  2. 19770
  3. 19782
  4. 19790
  5. 19801
  6. 19812
  7. 19823
  8. 19832
  9. 19841
  10. 19851
  11. 19862
  12. 19871
  13. 19880
  14. 19891
  15. 19902
  16. 19910
  17. 19921
  18. 19932
  19. 19942
  20. 19952
  21. 19962
  22. 19972
  23. 19982
  24. 19991
  25. 20002
  26. 20011
  27. 20022
  28. 20031
  29. 20040

A year without a link has fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints. It has no page.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 1981 Cadillac Seville: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/cadillac/seville/1981/. 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
30 Sep 2026
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

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Questions

How many units are in the recall campaigns for the 1981 Cadillac Seville?
9,155 units in 2 campaigns. A campaign can name other models and model years, and its units include them.
How many recall campaigns does the Cadillac Seville have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 31 recall campaigns for the Cadillac Seville, model years 1976 to 2004. 2 of them name the 1981 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 1981 Cadillac Seville name most often?
Vehicle Speed Control: 1 of 1 component mention.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 1981 Cadillac Seville open?
The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.