Recall Register

Saab 99: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 19 recall campaigns for the Saab 99, model years 1969 to 1980. NHTSA has no complaint on file for this model line. 7 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. 19693
  2. 19701
  3. 19713
  4. 19721
  5. 19731
  6. 19742
  7. 19754
  8. 19766
  9. 19773
  10. 19785
  11. 19791
  12. 19801
Saab 99: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1980 Saab 99 NHTSA page1015,213
1979 Saab 99 NHTSA page1061,739
1978 Saab 995097,377
1977 Saab 993096,065
1976 Saab 9960128,659
1975 Saab 9940104,140
1974 Saab 992011,770
1973 Saab 99 NHTSA page1021,038
1972 Saab 99 NHTSA page1021,038
1971 Saab 993022,747
1970 Saab 99 NHTSA page1021,038
1969 Saab 993020,650

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.

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Saab 99, by the year NHTSA received the report.
Complaints about the Saab 99, by the year NHTSA received them.

Other model lines of the make

Saab: all 11 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Saab 99: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/saab/99/. 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 99 model years have the most recall campaigns?
1976 with 6, 1978 with 5, 1975 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Saab 99 model year has the most complaints?
The NHTSA complaint file has no complaint for this model line.