Pontiac Catalina: recalls and complaints by model year
NHTSA lists 19 recall campaigns for the Pontiac Catalina, model years 1965 to 1979. NHTSA has no complaint on file for this model line. 7 of the 12 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.
| Model year | Recall campaigns | Complaints | Share of the line average | Units in the campaigns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 Pontiac Catalina NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 1,326,404 | |
| 1978 Pontiac Catalina | 2 | 0 | 338,123 | |
| 1977 Pontiac Catalina | 3 | 0 | 122,231 | |
| 1976 Pontiac Catalina NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 39,278 | |
| 1975 Pontiac Catalina | 3 | 0 | 5,827 | |
| 1974 Pontiac Catalina NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 782,111 | |
| 1973 Pontiac Catalina NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 685,434 | |
| 1972 Pontiac Catalina | 2 | 0 | 3,708,763 | |
| 1971 Pontiac Catalina | 2 | 0 | 3,737,949 | |
| 1969 Pontiac Catalina | 2 | 0 | 24,075 | |
| 1966 Pontiac Catalina | 2 | 0 | 1,309,470 | |
| 1965 Pontiac Catalina NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 830,000 |
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.
Counts by year
Other model lines of the make
- G610 campaigns
- Grand AM40 campaigns
- Grand Prix68 campaigns
- Bonneville40 campaigns
- Vibe22 campaigns
- Sunfire17 campaigns
- Montana20 campaigns
- Trans Sport18 campaigns
- Solstice5 campaigns
- Torrent4 campaigns
- GTO2 campaigns
- Firebird40 campaigns
- Aztek8 campaigns
- G56 campaigns
- G84 campaigns
- Sunbird22 campaigns
- Trans AM1 campaign
- Lemans26 campaigns
- Fiero4 campaigns
- Pontiac5 campaigns
- 600016 campaigns
- Parisienne7 campaigns
- Safari5 campaigns
- Tempest7 campaigns
- Phoenix18 campaigns
- Grand Ville9 campaigns
- 20004 campaigns
- Ventura13 campaigns
- T10004 campaigns
- Grand Safari3 campaigns
- Grand Lemans4 campaigns
- Bonneville Brougham3 campaigns
- Executive3 campaigns
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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. Pontiac Catalina: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/pontiac/catalina/. 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 Catalina model years have the most recall campaigns?
- 1977 with 3, 1975 with 3, 1978 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
- Which Pontiac Catalina model year has the most complaints?
- The NHTSA complaint file has no complaint for this model line.