Recall Register

Pontiac Montana: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 20 recall campaigns for the Pontiac Montana, model years 1997 to 2008. NHTSA has 1,054 complaints on file for this model line. 9 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.

  1. 19971
  2. 19983
  3. 19995
  4. 20005
  5. 20019
  6. 20023
  7. 20035
  8. 20043
  9. 20055
  10. 20062
  11. 20071
  12. 20081
Pontiac Montana: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2008 Pontiac Montana NHTSA page111%5,375
2007 Pontiac Montana NHTSA page100%5,375
2006 Pontiac Montana23742%37,443
2005 Pontiac Montana58192%756,921
2004 Pontiac Montana33944%769,197
2003 Pontiac Montana58496%2,579,072
2002 Pontiac Montana3126143%871,117
2001 Pontiac Montana9156178%3,403,900
2000 Pontiac Montana5228260%1,599,590
1999 Pontiac Montana5235268%1,444,839
1998 Pontiac Montana34956%1,443,050
1997 Pontiac Montana NHTSA page11820%717,302

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

1,451 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 Montana: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine and Engine Cooling193280
Structure84.1122
Electrical System82.7120
Power Train70.3102
Air Bags68.299
Latches/Locks/Linkages53.177
Service Brakes, Hydraulic50.373
Visibility49.672
Exterior Lighting47.669
Fuel System, Gasoline47.669

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Pontiac Montana, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2001, with 4 campaigns.
Complaints about the Pontiac Montana, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2004, with 162 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Pontiac: all 34 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Pontiac Montana: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/pontiac/montana/. 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 Montana model years have the most recall campaigns?
2001 with 9, 2005 with 5, 2003 with 5. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Pontiac Montana model year has the most complaints?
The 1999 model year, with 235 of the 1,054 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Pontiac Montana name?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 193 per 1,000 component mentions. Structure: 84.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 82.7 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Pontiac Montana?
11 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.