Recall Register

Pontiac Trans Sport: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 18 recall campaigns for the Pontiac Trans Sport, model years 1984 to 2003. NHTSA has 973 complaints on file for this model line. 10 of the 15 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. 19840
  2. 19860
  3. 19904
  4. 19912
  5. 19922
  6. 19933
  7. 19944
  8. 19953
  9. 19961
  10. 19975
  11. 19985
  12. 19992
  13. 20000
  14. 20010
  15. 20030
Pontiac Trans Sport: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2003 Pontiac Trans Sport NHTSA page035%
2001 Pontiac Trans Sport NHTSA page035%
2000 Pontiac Trans Sport NHTSA page023%
1999 Pontiac Trans Sport21015%719,032
1998 Pontiac Trans Sport5227350%2,447,163
1997 Pontiac Trans Sport5236364%2,657,360
1996 Pontiac Trans Sport16194%1,159,156
1995 Pontiac Trans Sport3113174%598,477
1994 Pontiac Trans Sport498151%614,576
1993 Pontiac Trans Sport36194%748,216
1992 Pontiac Trans Sport276117%742,922
1991 Pontiac Trans Sport23655%772,432
1990 Pontiac Trans Sport44569%773,175
1986 Pontiac Trans Sport NHTSA page012%
1984 Pontiac Trans Sport NHTSA page012%

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

1,262 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 Sport: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine and Engine Cooling129.2163
Structure107.8136
Seat Belts94.3119
Steering84.8107
Visibility81.6103
Service Brakes, Hydraulic75.395
Power Train66.684
Exterior Lighting63.480
Electrical System56.371
Latches/Locks/Linkages43.655

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Pontiac Trans Sport, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1994, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the Pontiac Trans Sport, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1999, with 117 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Pontiac: all 34 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Pontiac Trans Sport: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/pontiac/trans-sport/. 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 Trans Sport model years have the most recall campaigns?
1998 with 5, 1997 with 5, 1994 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Pontiac Trans Sport model year has the most complaints?
The 1997 model year, with 236 of the 973 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Pontiac Trans Sport name?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 129.2 per 1,000 component mentions. Structure: 107.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Seat Belts: 94.3 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Pontiac Trans Sport?
22 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.