1995 Oldsmobile 88 problems
NHTSA has received 150 complaints about the 1995 Oldsmobile 88, and 15% of them involve engine. Next are air bags (14%) and brakes (11%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 150 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Engine 15% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 20 and 9
- Injuries and deaths
- 14 and 2
- Typical mileage
- 136,000 miles 33 complaints with mileage
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%.
When problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 0 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 0 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 2 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 0 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 6 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 6 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 4 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 3 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 5 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 2 |
| 200k+ miles | 5 |
What the data shows
Of the 33 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 136,000 miles.
Safety-related details: 20 complaints mention a crash; 9 complaints mention a fire; 14 injuries reported; 2 deaths reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 87% of model years in our database.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 1995 ranks 2nd most-complained-about out of 9 model years of the Oldsmobile 88 with enough data (88 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 1 safety recall campaign.
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.
Upon impact, during frontal crash, at approx. 50MPH, 12:00 on front bumper, dual airbags failed to deploy, resulting in both driver and back seat passenger being killed anf four others injured in accident.
After being rearended at high speed and plowing into a car, 12:00 position, driver's and passenger's side airbags did not deploy.
No deployment of driver's air bag in collision/failure of seat belts to properly restrain driver in accident causing injury.
While traveling 40 MPH and without any indication, the driver's air bag deployed. Dealer had been contacted. The consumer was knocked out for about three seconds and was burned. *scc
I was driving down highway 95 in manning so. Carolina and all of a sudden I heard this big bang and saw my windshield smashed and then noticed the airbag on the passenger side deployed! I didn't hit anything nor anything hit me nor hit any bumps! I was traveling from maine to florida.