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BUICK REGAL

1998 BUICK REGAL

1 safety recall campaign, 6 defect investigations, 376 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.

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The record

Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations6
Owner complaints376
Complaints citing a crash8
Complaints citing a fire47

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 1 of 1

15V7010002015-10-26

ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE

Engine oil that drips onto the hot surface of the exhaust manifold may result in a fire.

What owners report most

  • 36STEERING:RACK AND PINION
  • 33ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
  • 29ENGINE
  • 26ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING
  • 23STEERING
  • 14ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:GASOLINE
  • 13VISIBILITY:POWER WINDOW DEVICES AND CONTROLS
  • 11TIRES

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Two 1998 BUICK REGALs 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.

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