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BUICK REGAL

2001 BUICK REGAL

1 safety recall campaign, 2 defect investigations, 229 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.

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The record

Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations2
Owner complaints229
Complaints citing a crash7
Complaints citing a fire55

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

  • 52ENGINE
  • 23ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING
  • 21ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
  • 11STEERING
  • 9POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
  • 9VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
  • 8UNKNOWN OR OTHER
  • 6AIR BAGS

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Two 2001 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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