17V437000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL
A failure of the front air bags or seat belt pretensioners to deploy in the event of a crash necessitating deployment increases the risk of injury to the driver and front passenger.
2015 BUICK ENCORE
4 safety recall campaigns, 192 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns4
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations0
Owner complaints192
Complaints citing a crash11
Complaints citing a fire3
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 4 of 4
16V651000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL
A failure of the front air bags or seat belt pretensioners to deploy in the event of a crash necessitating deployment increases the risk of injury to the driver and front passenger.
15V162000
EQUIPMENT:OTHER:LABELS
If the label is missing front and rear rim size information, the owner may replace the rims with ones that are an incorrect size, increasing the risk of crash.
15V146000
STEERING:ELECTRIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM
The circuit board wear may cause a sudden loss of electric power steering assist, increasing the risk of a crash.
What owners report most
- 30ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 28ENGINE
- 27STEERING
- 20SERVICE BRAKES
- 16AIR BAGS
- 15UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 11POWER TRAIN
- 7FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2015 BUICK ENCOREs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.