Recall Register

Pontiac Aztek: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 8 recall campaigns for the Pontiac Aztek, model years 2001 to 2005. NHTSA has 566 complaints on file for this model line. 5 of the 5 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. 20015
  2. 20022
  3. 20033
  4. 20043
  5. 20050
Pontiac Aztek: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2005 Pontiac Aztek03430%
2004 Pontiac Aztek36759%54,859
2003 Pontiac Aztek3128113%1,732,931
2002 Pontiac Aztek2121107%1,728,419
2001 Pontiac Aztek5216191%1,804,545

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

829 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.

Pontiac Aztek: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Electrical System144.8120
Fuel System, Gasoline100.183
Engine and Engine Cooling91.776
Service Brakes, Hydraulic79.666
Power Train66.355
Suspension62.752
Equipment49.541
Air Bags45.838
Fuel/Propulsion System36.230
Visibility3529

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Pontiac Aztek, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2003, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the Pontiac Aztek, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2004, with 90 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Pontiac: all 34 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Pontiac Aztek: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/pontiac/aztek/. 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
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 Pontiac Aztek model years have the most recall campaigns?
2001 with 5, 2004 with 3, 2003 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Pontiac Aztek model year has the most complaints?
The 2001 model year, with 216 of the 566 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Pontiac Aztek name?
Electrical System: 144.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Fuel System, Gasoline: 100.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 91.7 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Pontiac Aztek?
3 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.