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Buick Regal 2011

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

0.60 per 1,000

1.1 times this nameplate’s own median · from 24 complaints filed in the first three years, of 280 ever. 95% lower bound 0.36.

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
20110.6024
20120.3913
20130.4911
20140.5311
20150.439
20160.5611
20181.0113

What owners describe

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

Engine 108 complaints

chain2826%
timing2826%
timing chain2422%

Electrical System 75 complaints

seats2331%
system seats1925%

When it breaks

18% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 66,900 miles, from 205 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

No NHTSA investigation covers this model year.

That is not a clean bill of health, and not a criticism of the agency: investigations open for many reasons and complaint volume is only one of them.

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:

10345729 · 10374768 · 10378624 · 10405860 · 10406276 · 10406816

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.