Recall Register

Suzuki Grand Vitara: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 15 recall campaigns for the Suzuki Grand Vitara, model years 1999 to 2013. NHTSA has 639 complaints on file for this model line. 14 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. 19994
  2. 20004
  3. 20015
  4. 20024
  5. 20034
  6. 20042
  7. 20051
  8. 20066
  9. 20073
  10. 20082
  11. 20094
  12. 20105
  13. 20114
  14. 20122
  15. 20132
Suzuki Grand Vitara: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2013 Suzuki Grand Vitara249%32,093
2012 Suzuki Grand Vitara21331%32,093
2011 Suzuki Grand Vitara41126%254,285
2010 Suzuki Grand Vitara52047%274,977
2009 Suzuki Grand Vitara41433%254,285
2008 Suzuki Grand Vitara24299%221,203
2007 Suzuki Grand Vitara358136%261,627
2006 Suzuki Grand Vitara6161378%308,575
2005 Suzuki Grand Vitara NHTSA page112%801
2004 Suzuki Grand Vitara2819%197,677
2003 Suzuki Grand Vitara42968%375,089
2002 Suzuki Grand Vitara447110%375,089
2001 Suzuki Grand Vitara53889%444,569
2000 Suzuki Grand Vitara485200%429,658
1999 Suzuki Grand Vitara4108254%429,658

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

880 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: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Air Bags154.5136
Electrical System94.383
Exterior Lighting90.980
Vehicle Speed Control86.476
Fuel System, Gasoline71.663
Service Brakes, Hydraulic5851
Power Train5851
Engine and Engine Cooling55.749
Steering4237
Suspension37.533

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Suzuki Grand Vitara, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2001, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Suzuki Grand Vitara, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2004, with 85 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Suzuki: all 39 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Suzuki Grand Vitara: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/suzuki/grand-vitara/. 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 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2006 with 6, 2010 with 5, 2001 with 5. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Suzuki Grand Vitara model year has the most complaints?
The 2006 model year, with 161 of the 639 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 name?
Air Bags: 154.5 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 94.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Exterior Lighting: 90.9 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Suzuki Grand Vitara?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.