Recall Register

Suzuki Esteem: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 1 recall campaign for the Suzuki Esteem, model years 1995 to 2002. NHTSA has 120 complaints on file for this model line. 1 of the 8 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. 19950
  2. 19960
  3. 19970
  4. 19980
  5. 19990
  6. 20000
  7. 20010
  8. 20021
Suzuki Esteem: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2002 Suzuki Esteem NHTSA page1533%5,319
2001 Suzuki Esteem NHTSA page021140%
2000 Suzuki Esteem026173%
1999 Suzuki Esteem NHTSA page020133%
1998 Suzuki Esteem NHTSA page023153%
1997 Suzuki Esteem NHTSA page0747%
1996 Suzuki Esteem NHTSA page0533%
1995 Suzuki Esteem NHTSA page01387%

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

188 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.

Suzuki Esteem: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Structure191.536
Suspension138.326
Service Brakes, Hydraulic13325
Engine and Engine Cooling85.116
Air Bags63.812
Power Train47.99
Electrical System42.68
Tires37.27
Steering37.27
Fuel System, Gasoline31.96

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Suzuki Esteem, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2003, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Suzuki Esteem, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2001, with 13 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Suzuki: all 39 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Suzuki Esteem: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/suzuki/esteem/. 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
AMERICAN SUZUKI MOTOR 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 Suzuki Esteem model years have the most recall campaigns?
2002 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Suzuki Esteem model year has the most complaints?
The 2000 model year, with 26 of the 120 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Suzuki Esteem name?
Structure: 191.5 per 1,000 component mentions. Suspension: 138.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 133 per 1,000 component mentions.