Recall Register

Pontiac Grand Prix: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 68 recall campaigns for the Pontiac Grand Prix, model years 1965 to 2008. NHTSA has 5,425 complaints on file for this model line. 29 of the 39 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. 19651
  2. 19662
  3. 19701
  4. 19721
  5. 19733
  6. 19741
  7. 19761
  8. 19773
  9. 19785
  10. 19794
  11. 19803
  12. 19811
  13. 19821
  14. 19831
  15. 19842
  16. 19851
  17. 19864
  18. 19870
  19. 198811
  20. 19899
  21. 19908
  22. 19914
  23. 19921
  24. 19931
  25. 19941
  26. 19953
  27. 19961
  28. 19975
  29. 19984
  30. 19994
  31. 20005
  32. 20016
  33. 20023
  34. 20033
  35. 20047
  36. 20051
  37. 20061
  38. 20073
  39. 20081
Pontiac Grand Prix: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2008 Pontiac Grand Prix1142102%5,877,718
2007 Pontiac Grand Prix3220158%6,308,490
2006 Pontiac Grand Prix1239172%5,877,718
2005 Pontiac Grand Prix1148106%5,877,718
2004 Pontiac Grand Prix7454326%7,339,740
2003 Pontiac Grand Prix310676%2,708,614
2002 Pontiac Grand Prix3330237%2,708,614
2001 Pontiac Grand Prix6308221%2,865,229
2000 Pontiac Grand Prix5461331%2,865,030
1999 Pontiac Grand Prix4412296%2,710,344
1998 Pontiac Grand Prix4499359%3,867,770
1997 Pontiac Grand Prix5810582%4,022,919
1996 Pontiac Grand Prix17957%750,283
1995 Pontiac Grand Prix3169121%511,510
1994 Pontiac Grand Prix1213153%349,331
1993 Pontiac Grand Prix113194%5,574
1992 Pontiac Grand Prix111482%10,141
1991 Pontiac Grand Prix4172124%1,743,849
1990 Pontiac Grand Prix8176127%3,173,829
1989 Pontiac Grand Prix9139100%2,876,712
1988 Pontiac Grand Prix118863%2,439,652
1987 Pontiac Grand Prix NHTSA page021%
1986 Pontiac Grand Prix421%219,624
1985 Pontiac Grand Prix NHTSA page132%20,096
1984 Pontiac Grand Prix232%1,832,483
1983 Pontiac Grand Prix NHTSA page121%4,667
1982 Pontiac Grand Prix NHTSA page100%79,686
1981 Pontiac Grand Prix NHTSA page100%5,821,160
1980 Pontiac Grand Prix300%10,731,160
1979 Pontiac Grand Prix400%10,731,193
1978 Pontiac Grand Prix500%12,961,001
1977 Pontiac Grand Prix321%320,667
1976 Pontiac Grand Prix NHTSA page100%39,278
1974 Pontiac Grand Prix NHTSA page111%782,111
1973 Pontiac Grand Prix300%915,862
1972 Pontiac Grand Prix NHTSA page100%42,689
1970 Pontiac Grand Prix NHTSA page100%2,574
1966 Pontiac Grand Prix200%1,309,470
1965 Pontiac Grand Prix NHTSA page100%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.

Components in the complaints

7,303 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 Grand Prix: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine and Engine Cooling129.7947
Electrical System129.1943
Service Brakes, Hydraulic108.7794
Steering96.8707
Exterior Lighting91.6669
Engine78.7575
Power Train57.8422
Visibility50.4368
Air Bags38.6282
Structure35.3258

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Pontiac Grand Prix, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1990, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the Pontiac Grand Prix, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2003, with 364 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Pontiac: all 34 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Pontiac Grand Prix: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/pontiac/grand-prix/. 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 Grand Prix model years have the most recall campaigns?
1988 with 11, 1989 with 9, 1990 with 8. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Pontiac Grand Prix model year has the most complaints?
The 1997 model year, with 810 of the 5,425 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Pontiac Grand Prix name?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 129.7 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 129.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 108.7 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Pontiac Grand Prix?
37 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.