Recall Register

Saab 9000: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 13 recall campaigns for the Saab 9000, model years 1986 to 1998. NHTSA has 136 complaints on file for this model line. 6 of the 13 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. 19862
  2. 19871
  3. 19883
  4. 19893
  5. 19901
  6. 19911
  7. 19924
  8. 19935
  9. 19944
  10. 19950
  11. 19960
  12. 19971
  13. 19981
Saab 9000: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1998 Saab 9000 NHTSA page1110%39,313
1997 Saab 9000 NHTSA page1657%39,313
1996 Saab 9000 NHTSA page01096%
1995 Saab 9000 NHTSA page0876%
1994 Saab 9000414134%50,306
1993 Saab 9000529277%65,818
1992 Saab 9000419182%56,071
1991 Saab 9000 NHTSA page1876%250
1990 Saab 9000 NHTSA page1767%24,379
1989 Saab 9000314134%39,965
1988 Saab 9000312115%45,379
1987 Saab 9000 NHTSA page1548%24,379
1986 Saab 90002329%33,969

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

196 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.

Saab 9000: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Power Train163.332
Electrical System14829
Service Brakes, Hydraulic127.625
Engine and Engine Cooling117.323
Fuel System, Gasoline91.818
Air Bags5110
Seat Belts5110
Vehicle Speed Control45.99
Seats30.66
Exterior Lighting30.66

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Saab 9000, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1994, with 4 campaigns.
Complaints about the Saab 9000, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1995, with 28 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Saab: all 11 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Saab 9000: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/saab/9000/. 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
SAAB CARS USA, INC.

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 Saab 9000 model years have the most recall campaigns?
1993 with 5, 1994 with 4, 1992 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Saab 9000 model year has the most complaints?
The 1993 model year, with 29 of the 136 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Saab 9000 name?
Power Train: 163.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 148 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 127.6 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Saab 9000?
5 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.