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Buick LaCrosse 2008

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

0.52 per 1,000

1.0 times this nameplate’s own median · from 19 complaints filed in the first three years, of 250 ever. 95% lower bound 0.28.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model yearPer 1,000Complaints
20080.5219
20090.093
20100.8049
20110.6237
20120.8046
20130.3217
20140.4020
20150.199
20160.4014
20170.5012

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Electrical System 84 complaints

locks2327%
door locks2125%

Air Bags 77 complaints

light comes1419%
indicator light1013%

Exterior Lighting 61 complaints

lighting however2236%
exceeded reasonable2134%
reasonable amount2134%
exceeded2134%
amount recall1931%
however part1829%

When it breaks

20% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 53,718 miles, from 200 complaints that recorded one).

Failures arrive late and spread out, which looks like wear. Service history matters more than model year here.

What NHTSA did

1 investigation covering this model year, 0 of which list a recall campaign. Owners had filed 294 complaints about this component over roughly 66 months before an investigation opened.

Loss of Headlights

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

10216856 · 10218147 · 10220311 · 10227997 · 10248151 · 10248037

Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is automated checks only, not verified against an external source.