Recall Register

Cadillac XTS: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 10 recall campaigns for the Cadillac XTS, model years 2013 to 2019. NHTSA has 100 complaints on file for this model line. 4 of the 7 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. 20135
  2. 20144
  3. 20153
  4. 20160
  5. 20170
  6. 20181
  7. 20192
Cadillac XTS: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2019 Cadillac XTS200%210,803
2018 Cadillac XTS NHTSA page117%210,628
2017 Cadillac XTS NHTSA page0642%
2016 Cadillac XTS NHTSA page0642%
2015 Cadillac XTS3749%210,718
2014 Cadillac XTS422154%269,323
2013 Cadillac XTS558406%292,053

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

141 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 XTS: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Electrical System23433
Suspension113.516
Unknown or Other99.314
Engine70.910
Service Brakes56.78
Exterior Lighting49.67
Steering49.67
Wheels49.67
Electronic Stability Control (ESC)35.55
Air Bags28.44

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Cadillac XTS, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2014, with 4 campaigns.
Complaints about the Cadillac XTS, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2017, with 24 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Cadillac: all 36 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Cadillac XTS: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/cadillac/xts/. 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
Manufacturer in the recall file
General Motors LLC

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 XTS model years have the most recall campaigns?
2013 with 5, 2014 with 4, 2015 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Cadillac XTS model year has the most complaints?
The 2013 model year, with 58 of the 100 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Cadillac XTS name?
Electrical System: 234 per 1,000 component mentions. Suspension: 113.5 per 1,000 component mentions. Unknown or Other: 99.3 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Cadillac XTS?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.