Recall Register

Optima Opus: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 4 recall campaigns for the Optima Opus, model years 2000 to 2009. NHTSA has 9 complaints on file for this model line. 3 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. 20001
  2. 20011
  3. 20021
  4. 20031
  5. 20041
  6. 20051
  7. 20061
  8. 20074
  9. 20083
  10. 20093
Optima Opus: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2009 Optima Opus300%6,481
2008 Optima Opus31111%6,481
2007 Optima Opus48889%6,566
2006 Optima Opus NHTSA page100%4,061
2005 Optima Opus NHTSA page100%4,061
2004 Optima Opus NHTSA page100%4,061
2003 Optima Opus NHTSA page100%4,061
2002 Optima Opus NHTSA page100%4,061
2001 Optima Opus NHTSA page100%4,061
2000 Optima Opus NHTSA page100%4,061

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

18 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.

Optima Opus: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine and Engine Cooling555.610
Air Bags55.61
Electrical System55.61
Interior Lighting55.61
Latches/Locks/Linkages55.61
Unknown or Other55.61
Service Brakes55.61
Equipment Adaptive/Mobility55.61
Exterior Lighting55.61

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Optima Opus, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2007, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Optima Opus, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2008, with 8 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Optima: all 4 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Optima Opus: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/optima/opus/. 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
30 Sep 2026
Manufacturer in the recall file
North American Bus Industries, Inc.

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 Optima Opus model years have the most recall campaigns?
2007 with 4, 2009 with 3, 2008 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Optima Opus model year has the most complaints?
The 2007 model year, with 8 of the 9 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Optima Opus name?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 10 component mentions. Air Bags: 1 component mention. Electrical System: 1 component mention.