Is This A Lemon?

Year · Make · Model

1996 Buick Roadmaster

What the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration knows about this vehicle: every recall, every consumer complaint, every defect investigation, every NCAP crash test. Sourced directly from NHTSA data feeds.

2
Open recalls
52
NHTSA complaints
1
Defect investigations
33
Service bulletins

NCAP safety

Overall
Not rated
Frontal
Not rated
Side
Not rated
Rollover
Not rated

Consumer complaints

52 filed
3
Crashes
1
Fires
3
Injuries reported
0
Fatalities reported

What people complain about

  • Engine AND Engine COOLING:COOLING System
    4
  • Fuel SYSTEM, GASOLINE:DELIVERY:FUEL Pump
    3
  • Service BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:ANTILOCK/TRACTION CONTROL/ELECTRONIC Limited Slip
    3
  • Suspension
    2
  • TIRES:TREAD/BELT
    2
  • STEERING:HYDRAULIC Power ASSIST:PUMP
    2
  • Power TRAIN:AUTOMATIC Transmission
    2
  • Vehicle Speed CONTROL:CABLES
    2

Recalls

2 campaigns
96V245000·WHEELS:LUGS/NUTS/BOLTS/STUDS1996-12-10

THE WHEEL LUG NUTS WERE NOT TIGHTENED TO THE PROPER SPECIFICATION DURING ASSEMBLY.

RiskTHIS CONDITION COULD RESULT IN A FRACTURE OF THE WHEEL STUDS CAUSING THE WHEEL TO SEPARATE FROM THE VEHICLE.

FixDEALERS WILL TIGHTEN THE VEHICLE'S WHEEL LUG NUTS TO THE PROPER SPECIFICATION.

95V215000·AIR BAGS1995-11-03

THESE VEHICLES WERE SHIPPED WITH BOTH THE SUPPLEMENTAL INFLATABLE RESTRAINT CAUTION LABEL AND A ROOF RACK CAUTION LABEL INSTALLED ON THE SAME SIDE OF THE SUN VISOR. THIS DOES NOT MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF FMVSS NO.208, "OCCUPANT CRASH PROTECTION."

RiskCONSEQUENCE OF NON-COMPLIANCE: OPERATORS COULD FAIL TO NOTICE AND HEED THE WARNING LABELS.

FixA NEW ROOF RACK CAUTION LABEL, WITH INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS, WILL BE SENT DIRECTLY TO OWNERS. OWNERS WILL INSTALL THE LABEL OR HAVE THEIR DEALER INSTALL THE LABEL FOR THEM.

NHTSA investigations

1 action
EA96007·SUSPENSION1996-05-31 → 1996-12-24

REAR WHEEL SEPARATION

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