Oldsmobile Achieva: recalls and complaints by model year
NHTSA lists 9 recall campaigns for the Oldsmobile Achieva, model years 1992 to 2000. NHTSA has 416 complaints on file for this model line. 7 of the 8 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.
| Model year | Recall campaigns | Complaints | Share of the line average | Units in the campaigns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 Oldsmobile Achieva NHTSA page | 0 | 3 | 6% | |
| 1998 Oldsmobile Achieva | 1 | 40 | 77% | 1,415,231 |
| 1997 Oldsmobile Achieva | 2 | 63 | 121% | 1,593,412 |
| 1996 Oldsmobile Achieva | 4 | 87 | 167% | 2,158,071 |
| 1995 Oldsmobile Achieva | 1 | 70 | 135% | 699,617 |
| 1994 Oldsmobile Achieva | 2 | 62 | 119% | 701,298 |
| 1993 Oldsmobile Achieva | 1 | 38 | 73% | 1,103 |
| 1992 Oldsmobile Achieva | 0 | 53 | 102% |
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
625 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Electrical System | 203.2 | 127 |
| Engine and Engine Cooling | 164.8 | 103 |
| Service Brakes, Hydraulic | 131.2 | 82 |
| Air Bags | 75.2 | 47 |
| Power Train | 62.4 | 39 |
| Visibility | 49.6 | 31 |
| Steering | 38.4 | 24 |
| Vehicle Speed Control | 35.2 | 22 |
| Suspension | 33.6 | 21 |
| Structure | 32 | 20 |
Counts by year
Other model lines of the make
- Alero7 campaigns
- Cutlass58 campaigns
- Intrigue11 campaigns
- Bravada24 campaigns
- Silhouette23 campaigns
- 8838 campaigns
- Aurora8 campaigns
- Cutlass Supreme3 campaigns
- 9830 campaigns
- Ciera10 campaigns
- Calais8 campaigns
- Custom Cruiser6 campaigns
- Toronado17 campaigns
- Omega28 campaigns
- Firenza10 campaigns
- Starfire7 campaigns
Oldsmobile: all 17 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. Oldsmobile Achieva: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/oldsmobile/achieva/. 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
- 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 Oldsmobile Achieva model years have the most recall campaigns?
- 1996 with 4, 1997 with 2, 1994 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
- Which Oldsmobile Achieva model year has the most complaints?
- The 1996 model year, with 87 of the 416 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
- Which components do the complaints about the Oldsmobile Achieva name?
- Electrical System: 203.2 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 164.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 131.2 per 1,000 component mentions.
- How many NHTSA investigations name the Oldsmobile Achieva?
- 1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.