Recall Register

Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 6 recall campaigns for the Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser, model years 1977 to 1994. NHTSA has 42 complaints on file for this model line. 3 of the 14 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. 19771
  2. 19781
  3. 19791
  4. 19830
  5. 19841
  6. 19851
  7. 19861
  8. 19872
  9. 19881
  10. 19890
  11. 19912
  12. 19922
  13. 19930
  14. 19940
Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1994 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser NHTSA page0267%
1993 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser NHTSA page0133%
1992 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser217567%281,289
1991 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser26200%444,159
1989 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser NHTSA page0267%
1988 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser NHTSA page1133%1,755,897
1987 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser2267%1,767,833
1986 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser NHTSA page110333%1,755,897
1985 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser NHTSA page100%1,755,897
1984 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser NHTSA page100%1,755,897
1983 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser NHTSA page0133%
1979 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser NHTSA page100%476,245
1978 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser NHTSA page100%476,245
1977 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser NHTSA page100%476,245

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

48 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 Custom Cruiser: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic312.515
Electrical System187.59
Seat Belts166.78
Vehicle Speed Control104.25
Air Bags62.53
Seats41.72
Engine and Engine Cooling20.81
Visibility20.81
Power Train20.81
Service Brakes, Air20.81

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1991, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1995, with 10 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Oldsmobile: all 17 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/oldsmobile/custom-cruiser/. 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 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 Custom Cruiser model years have the most recall campaigns?
1992 with 2, 1991 with 2, 1987 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser model year has the most complaints?
The 1992 model year, with 17 of the 42 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser name?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 15 component mentions. Electrical System: 9 component mentions. Seat Belts: 8 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.