1990 Buick Regal problems
NHTSA has received 107 complaints about the 1990 Buick Regal, and 57% of them involve brakes. Next are body & structure (6%) and suspension (6%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 107 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Brakes 57% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 7 and 1
- Injuries and deaths
- 11 and 1
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
What the data shows
Safety-related details: 7 complaints mention a crash; 1 complaint mentions a fire; 11 injuries reported; 1 death reported.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 1990 ranks 15th most-complained-about out of 24 model years of the Buick Regal with enough data (50 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 8 safety recall campaigns.
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
Door was forced opened by the force, door latch pulled striker from door pillar and door open leaving the seat belt useless , as a safety restraint, and passanger was ejected and killed. The door mounted design is totally useless on door opening, seatbelts should stay on pelvis, in all accident conditions, g.m installed this design in thousands of vehicles, they should not have been able to put these type of restaint in their vehicles, anybody with any kind of brains should have seen that, their engineers are…
1990 buick regal had equipment failure. Consumer was able to pull over to the shoulder under control without any problems. According to the police report, upon inspection of the hood latch and bracket, the officer discovered part of the bracket at the front of the engine bay was missing. The bolt was missing as well. The crash was due to the hood latch and bracket coming apart, which caused the hood to open and slam against the windshield. The consumer was injured. (ohio traffic crash report).
Consumer came up to a drive through try to push the window down it would not go down or up consumer had hand out and window went up and caught consumer arm. Tt
The rear cradle bolts broke and the cradle separated from the body of the vehicle. This caused the steering linkage couplers to separate and fall off, resulting in loss of steering. This occurred because the cradle bolts rusted. This would not have occurred if corrosive restraint parts were used when the rear cradle bolt recall 97v058000 repairs were performed, per the dealership. A recall was issued for the front and rear cradle bolts.
Electrical systems controlled by signal lever do not work except by holding lever in certain positions: I.e. Brake lights, signal lever l up, turn signals switch lever up, high beams no go etc. All the time.