Recall Register

Pontiac Trans AM: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 1 recall campaign for the Pontiac Trans AM, model years 1969 to 2002. NHTSA has 133 complaints on file for this model line. 1 of the 20 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. 19690
  2. 19770
  3. 19790
  4. 19800
  5. 19820
  6. 19840
  7. 19860
  8. 19880
  9. 19910
  10. 19920
  11. 19930
  12. 19941
  13. 19950
  14. 19960
  15. 19970
  16. 19980
  17. 19990
  18. 20000
  19. 20010
  20. 20020
Pontiac Trans AM: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2002 Pontiac Trans AM029436%
2001 Pontiac Trans AM NHTSA page010150%
2000 Pontiac Trans AM NHTSA page010150%
1999 Pontiac Trans AM NHTSA page015226%
1998 Pontiac Trans AM NHTSA page011165%
1997 Pontiac Trans AM NHTSA page012180%
1996 Pontiac Trans AM NHTSA page0460%
1995 Pontiac Trans AM NHTSA page0460%
1994 Pontiac Trans AM NHTSA page19135%76
1993 Pontiac Trans AM NHTSA page0115%
1992 Pontiac Trans AM NHTSA page0345%
1991 Pontiac Trans AM NHTSA page0230%
1988 Pontiac Trans AM NHTSA page0115%
1986 Pontiac Trans AM NHTSA page010150%
1984 Pontiac Trans AM NHTSA page0575%
1982 Pontiac Trans AM NHTSA page0230%
1980 Pontiac Trans AM NHTSA page0115%
1979 Pontiac Trans AM NHTSA page0115%
1977 Pontiac Trans AM NHTSA page0230%
1969 Pontiac Trans AM NHTSA page0115%

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

183 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 Trans AM: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine and Engine Cooling109.320
Service Brakes, Hydraulic98.418
Power Train92.917
Structure87.416
Electrical System7113
Visibility60.111
Seat Belts60.111
Fuel System, Gasoline60.111
Steering60.111
Exterior Lighting60.111

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Pontiac Trans AM, by the year NHTSA received the report.
Complaints about the Pontiac Trans AM, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2000, with 22 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Pontiac: all 34 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Pontiac Trans AM: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/pontiac/trans-am/. 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
29 Mar 2018
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 Trans AM model years have the most recall campaigns?
1994 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Pontiac Trans AM model year has the most complaints?
The 2002 model year, with 29 of the 133 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Pontiac Trans AM name?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 109.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 98.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 92.9 per 1,000 component mentions.