Recall Register

Oldsmobile Ciera: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 10 recall campaigns for the Oldsmobile Ciera, model years 1983 to 1996. NHTSA has 281 complaints on file for this model line. 7 of the 11 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. 19831
  2. 19842
  3. 19850
  4. 19860
  5. 19871
  6. 19881
  7. 19891
  8. 19902
  9. 19944
  10. 19951
  11. 19961
Oldsmobile Ciera: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1996 Oldsmobile Ciera183325%2,216,325
1995 Oldsmobile Ciera134133%2,216,325
1994 Oldsmobile Ciera446180%2,405,120
1990 Oldsmobile Ciera22078%2,535,506
1989 Oldsmobile Ciera131121%2,216,325
1988 Oldsmobile Ciera12598%27,369
1987 Oldsmobile Ciera NHTSA page11767%39
1986 Oldsmobile Ciera NHTSA page01455%
1985 Oldsmobile Ciera NHTSA page0831%
1984 Oldsmobile Ciera2312%197,681
1983 Oldsmobile Ciera NHTSA page100%352,036

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

354 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.

Oldsmobile Ciera: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic189.367
Engine and Engine Cooling135.648
Vehicle Speed Control93.233
Electrical System87.631
Power Train76.327
Seat Belts73.426
Structure53.719
Steering4817
Fuel System, Gasoline42.415
Air Bags42.415

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Oldsmobile Ciera, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1994, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the Oldsmobile Ciera, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1995, with 71 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Oldsmobile: all 17 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Oldsmobile Ciera: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/oldsmobile/ciera/. 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 Oldsmobile Ciera model years have the most recall campaigns?
1994 with 4, 1990 with 2, 1984 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Oldsmobile Ciera model year has the most complaints?
The 1996 model year, with 83 of the 281 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Oldsmobile Ciera name?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 189.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 135.6 per 1,000 component mentions. Vehicle Speed Control: 93.2 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Oldsmobile Ciera?
13 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.