Recall Register

Oldsmobile Silhouette: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 23 recall campaigns for the Oldsmobile Silhouette, model years 1990 to 2004. NHTSA has 905 complaints on file for this model line. 13 of the 15 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. 19904
  2. 19912
  3. 19922
  4. 19933
  5. 19944
  6. 19952
  7. 19961
  8. 19976
  9. 19987
  10. 19994
  11. 20005
  12. 20016
  13. 20022
  14. 20032
  15. 20041
Oldsmobile Silhouette: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2004 Oldsmobile Silhouette NHTSA page1813%717,302
2003 Oldsmobile Silhouette23050%850,523
2002 Oldsmobile Silhouette24778%850,523
2001 Oldsmobile Silhouette669114%1,675,443
2000 Oldsmobile Silhouette5108179%1,599,590
1999 Oldsmobile Silhouette4143237%1,443,109
1998 Oldsmobile Silhouette7166275%2,821,890
1997 Oldsmobile Silhouette6104172%2,783,350
1996 Oldsmobile Silhouette NHTSA page12033%1,159,156
1995 Oldsmobile Silhouette24676%591,705
1994 Oldsmobile Silhouette43558%614,576
1993 Oldsmobile Silhouette32236%748,216
1992 Oldsmobile Silhouette22745%742,922
1991 Oldsmobile Silhouette23761%772,432
1990 Oldsmobile Silhouette44371%773,175

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

1,207 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 Silhouette: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine and Engine Cooling141.7171
Structure94.4114
Exterior Lighting69.684
Electrical System64.678
Steering63.877
Service Brakes, Hydraulic58.871
Power Train58.871
Latches/Locks/Linkages57.269
Seat Belts56.368
Visibility56.368

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Oldsmobile Silhouette, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1994, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the Oldsmobile Silhouette, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2003, with 129 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Oldsmobile: all 17 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Oldsmobile Silhouette: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/oldsmobile/silhouette/. 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
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 Silhouette model years have the most recall campaigns?
1998 with 7, 2001 with 6, 1997 with 6. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Oldsmobile Silhouette model year has the most complaints?
The 1998 model year, with 166 of the 905 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Oldsmobile Silhouette name?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 141.7 per 1,000 component mentions. Structure: 94.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Exterior Lighting: 69.6 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Oldsmobile Silhouette?
23 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.