Oldsmobile Cutlass: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 58 recall campaigns for the Oldsmobile Cutlass, model years 1967 to 1999. NHTSA has 1,574 complaints on file for this model line. 26 of the 28 model years have a page on this register.

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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.
NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on 1 Oct 2026. Complaint file through 29 Mar 2018. Recall file through 29 Sep 2026.

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

Oldsmobile Cutlass: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model year	Recall campaigns	Complaints	Share of the line average	Units in the campaigns
1999 Oldsmobile Cutlass	0	75	133%
1998 Oldsmobile Cutlass	2	151	269%	879,710
1997 Oldsmobile Cutlass	2	90	160%	879,710
1996 Oldsmobile Cutlass	0	117	208%
1995 Oldsmobile Cutlass	3	153	272%	511,510
1994 Oldsmobile Cutlass	4	144	256%	620,158
1993 Oldsmobile Cutlass	4	137	244%	2,295,423
1992 Oldsmobile Cutlass	3	136	242%	2,226,499
1991 Oldsmobile Cutlass	6	191	340%	4,310,372
1990 Oldsmobile Cutlass	6	102	181%	2,459,273
1989 Oldsmobile Cutlass	6	112	199%	2,051,940
1988 Oldsmobile Cutlass	6	74	132%	3,329,813
1987 Oldsmobile Cutlass	2	16	28%	1,767,833
1986 Oldsmobile Cutlass	3	23	41%	1,758,317
1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass	3	18	32%	1,766,275
1984 Oldsmobile Cutlass	2	15	27%	1,832,483
1983 Oldsmobile Cutlass	2	5	9%	356,703
1982 Oldsmobile Cutlass	2	1	2%	599,015
1981 Oldsmobile Cutlass	2	3	5%	5,827,850
1980 Oldsmobile Cutlass	4	3	5%	10,798,510
1979 Oldsmobile Cutlass	7	2	4%	10,814,375
1978 Oldsmobile Cutlass	5	0	0%	12,961,001
1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass	2	3	5%	320,632
1976 Oldsmobile Cutlass NHTSA page	1	3	5%	3,011
1975 Oldsmobile Cutlass	3	0	0%	225,495
1974 Oldsmobile Cutlass	3	0	0%	814,681
1973 Oldsmobile Cutlass	2	0	0%	1,373,805
1967 Oldsmobile Cutlass NHTSA page	1	0	0%	70,644

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

2,204 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 Cutlass: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component	Per 1,000	Mentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic	256.8	566
Engine and Engine Cooling	107.5	237
Electrical System	101.2	223
Seat Belts	53.5	118
Steering	50.8	112
Suspension	49	108
Structure	48.1	106
Power Train	47.6	105
Vehicle Speed Control	44.9	99
Air Bags	41.3	91

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Oldsmobile Cutlass, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1992, with 4 campaigns.

Complaints about the Oldsmobile Cutlass, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1995, with 303 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Alero7 campaigns
Intrigue11 campaigns
Silhouette23 campaigns
Bravada24 campaigns
8838 campaigns
Aurora8 campaigns
Achieva9 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 Cutlass: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/oldsmobile/cutlass/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through 29 Sep 2026.

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 Cutlass model years have the most recall campaigns?: 1979 with 7, 1991 with 6, 1990 with 6. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Oldsmobile Cutlass model year has the most complaints?: The 1991 model year, with 191 of the 1,574 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Oldsmobile Cutlass name?: Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 256.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 107.5 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 101.2 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Oldsmobile Cutlass?: 28 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.