Recall Register

Pontiac Solstice: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 5 recall campaigns for the Pontiac Solstice, model years 2006 to 2010. NHTSA has 665 complaints on file for this model line. 5 of the 5 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. 20064
  2. 20074
  3. 20084
  4. 20093
  5. 20103
Pontiac Solstice: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2010 Pontiac Solstice300%4,472,955
2009 Pontiac Solstice32922%4,472,955
2008 Pontiac Solstice4152114%4,474,437
2007 Pontiac Solstice4260195%4,748,891
2006 Pontiac Solstice4224168%4,748,891

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

799 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 Solstice: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Air Bags612489
Electrical System88.971
Power Train72.658
Seats42.634
Service Brakes, Hydraulic38.831
Engine27.522
Service Brakes22.518
Structure18.815
Unknown or Other11.39
Vehicle Speed Control8.87

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Pontiac Solstice, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2007, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Pontiac Solstice, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2014, with 155 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Pontiac: all 34 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Pontiac Solstice: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/pontiac/solstice/. 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
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
15 May 2019
Manufacturer in the recall file
General Motors LLC

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 Solstice model years have the most recall campaigns?
2008 with 4, 2007 with 4, 2006 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Pontiac Solstice model year has the most complaints?
The 2007 model year, with 260 of the 665 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Pontiac Solstice name?
Air Bags: 612 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 88.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 72.6 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Pontiac Solstice?
4 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.