Recall Register

Pontiac Lemans: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 26 recall campaigns for the Pontiac Lemans, model years 1967 to 1993. NHTSA has 118 complaints on file for this model line. 9 of the 18 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. 19671
  2. 19681
  3. 19711
  4. 19734
  5. 19743
  6. 19751
  7. 19761
  8. 19773
  9. 19787
  10. 19794
  11. 19804
  12. 19811
  13. 19883
  14. 19891
  15. 19902
  16. 19912
  17. 19921
  18. 19931
Pontiac Lemans: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1993 Pontiac Lemans NHTSA page118275%91,275
1992 Pontiac Lemans NHTSA page121320%91,275
1991 Pontiac Lemans224366%273,320
1990 Pontiac Lemans225381%273,320
1989 Pontiac Lemans NHTSA page115229%182,045
1988 Pontiac Lemans313198%339,724
1981 Pontiac Lemans NHTSA page100%5,821,160
1980 Pontiac Lemans400%10,798,510
1979 Pontiac Lemans400%10,798,510
1978 Pontiac Lemans700%12,963,280
1977 Pontiac Lemans3231%320,667
1976 Pontiac Lemans NHTSA page100%39,278
1975 Pontiac Lemans NHTSA page100%220,982
1974 Pontiac Lemans300%2,026,919
1973 Pontiac Lemans400%2,062,333
1971 Pontiac Lemans NHTSA page100%12,600
1968 Pontiac Lemans NHTSA page100%50
1967 Pontiac Lemans NHTSA page100%104,736

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

172 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 Lemans: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Seat Belts325.656
Service Brakes, Hydraulic18632
Power Train87.215
Electrical System75.613
Engine and Engine Cooling6411
Suspension34.96
Exterior Lighting34.96
Visibility29.15
Vehicle Speed Control29.15
Latches/Locks/Linkages23.34

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Pontiac Lemans, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1993, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Pontiac Lemans, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1995, with 61 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Pontiac: all 34 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Pontiac Lemans: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/pontiac/lemans/. 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 Lemans model years have the most recall campaigns?
1978 with 7, 1980 with 4, 1979 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Pontiac Lemans model year has the most complaints?
The 1990 model year, with 25 of the 118 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Pontiac Lemans name?
Seat Belts: 325.6 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 186 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 87.2 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Pontiac Lemans?
5 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.