Recall Register

Oldsmobile Omega: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 28 recall campaigns for the Oldsmobile Omega, model years 1973 to 1984. NHTSA has 5 complaints on file for this model line. 9 of the 10 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. 19734
  2. 19743
  3. 19753
  4. 19772
  5. 19782
  6. 19808
  7. 19812
  8. 19822
  9. 19831
  10. 19843
Oldsmobile Omega: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1984 Oldsmobile Omega32400%206,971
1983 Oldsmobile Omega NHTSA page100%352,036
1982 Oldsmobile Omega200%524,316
1981 Oldsmobile Omega22400%130,593
1980 Oldsmobile Omega81200%706,055
1978 Oldsmobile Omega200%365,598
1977 Oldsmobile Omega200%87,543
1975 Oldsmobile Omega300%28,418
1974 Oldsmobile Omega300%1,231,350
1973 Oldsmobile Omega400%1,222,486

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

5 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 Omega: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic2001
Seat Belts2001
Electrical System2001
Engine and Engine Cooling2001
Steering2001

Counts by year

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

Other model lines of the make

Oldsmobile: all 17 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Oldsmobile Omega: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/oldsmobile/omega/. 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 Omega model years have the most recall campaigns?
1980 with 8, 1973 with 4, 1984 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Oldsmobile Omega model year has the most complaints?
The 1981 model year, with 2 of the 5 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Oldsmobile Omega name?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 1 component mention. Seat Belts: 1 component mention. Electrical System: 1 component mention.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Oldsmobile Omega?
3 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.