Recall Register

2006 Pontiac GTO: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 2006 Pontiac GTO. NHTSA has 216 complaints on file for this model year. 1 NHTSA investigation names this model year.

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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.

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Recall campaigns

No NHTSA recall campaign names the 2006 Pontiac GTO. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 216 complaints for it.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Complaints by component

216 complaints, 248 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.

  • 2006 Pontiac GTO
  • All 2006 vehicles
2006 Pontiac GTO: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component2006 GTOAll 2006 vehiclesGTO, all yearsMentions
Suspension814.539.3620.9202
Tires80.614.5165.420
Electrical System28.2109.347.17
Power Train20.29436.95
Engine and Engine Cooling12.148.316.53
Steering12.195.219.13
Equipment8.18.55.12
Latches/Locks/Linkages410.93.81
Structure449.810.21
Service Brakes, Electric42.41.31

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 13.

Complaints that report a crash
3
Complaints that report a fire
0
Injuries in the complaints
1
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
4 May 2016

These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.

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.

Complaints about the 2006 Pontiac GTO, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2006, with 132 complaints.

Investigations

NHTSA investigations that name the 2006 Pontiac GTO
NumberTypeSubjectComponentOpenedClosedCampaign
PE07010Preliminary evaluationFRONT STRUT TO TIRE INTERFERENCESuspension / Front16 Feb 20078 Aug 2007

Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.

Other model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19671
  2. 19681
  3. 20040
  4. 20050
  5. 20060

A year without a link has fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints. It has no page.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 2006 Pontiac GTO: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/pontiac/gto/2006/. 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
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

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Questions

How many recall campaigns does the Pontiac GTO have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 2 recall campaigns for the Pontiac GTO, model years 1967 to 2006. None of them names the 2006 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 2006 Pontiac GTO name most often?
Suspension: 202 of 248 component mentions, or 814.5 per 1,000. For all 2006 vehicles the figure is 39.3 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 2006 Pontiac GTO open?
No. The 1 investigation that names this model year has a closing date in the NHTSA file.