Recall Register

Suzuki Grand Vitara XL-7: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 3 recall campaigns for the Suzuki Grand Vitara XL-7, model years 2001 to 2005. NHTSA has 45 complaints on file for this model line. 1 of the 5 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. 20011
  2. 20021
  3. 20033
  4. 20041
  5. 20050
Suzuki Grand Vitara XL-7: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2005 Suzuki Grand Vitara XL-7 NHTSA page0222%
2004 Suzuki Grand Vitara XL-7 NHTSA page117189%172,093
2003 Suzuki Grand Vitara XL-7313144%197,992
2002 Suzuki Grand Vitara XL-7 NHTSA page1889%172,093
2001 Suzuki Grand Vitara XL-7 NHTSA page1556%172,093

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

57 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 Grand Vitara XL-7: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Air Bags263.215
Electrical System157.99
Service Brakes, Hydraulic87.75
Engine and Engine Cooling70.24
Vehicle Speed Control70.24
Power Train52.63
Fuel System, Gasoline35.12
Unknown or Other35.12
Visibility35.12
Equipment35.12

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Suzuki Grand Vitara XL-7, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2003, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Suzuki Grand Vitara XL-7, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2004, with 9 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Suzuki: all 39 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Suzuki Grand Vitara XL-7: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/suzuki/grand-vitara-xl-7/. 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
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 Grand Vitara XL-7 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2003 with 3, 2004 with 1, 2002 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Suzuki Grand Vitara XL-7 model year has the most complaints?
The 2004 model year, with 17 of the 45 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Suzuki Grand Vitara XL-7 name?
Air Bags: 263.2 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 157.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 87.7 per 1,000 component mentions.