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Cadillac seats problems

Across all Cadillac models in NHTSA's complaint database, 308 complaints involve seats. The Escalade accounts for the largest share (17%). The single worst model year is the 2006 DTS with 13 seats complaints.

At a glance

Complaints
308 about seats, all Cadillac models
Most affected
Escalade 17% of these complaints
Typical mileage
65,000 miles 151 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
24 and 41

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

Which Cadillac models

ModelComplaintsShare
Escalade5317%
Deville5016%
SRX3812%
CTS3712%
DTS289%
Seville176%
Catera165%
STS145%
Escalade ESV93%
XT562%

Worst model years for seats

  1. 2006 Cadillac DTS13 complaints
  2. 2007 Cadillac Escalade11 complaints
  3. 2013 Cadillac SRX9 complaints
  4. 1997 Cadillac Deville8 complaints
  5. 1998 Cadillac Catera7 complaints

Seats complaints by model year

Cadillac seats complaints by model year 0 15 30 1990: 3 '90 1991: 1 1992: 5 1993: 6 '93 1994: 7 1995: 6 1996: 12 '96 1997: 12 1998: 13 1999: 15 '99 2000: 13 2001: 7 2002: 10 '02 2003: 8 2004: 14 2005: 18 '05 2006: 23 2007: 27 2008: 12 '08 2009: 9 2010: 10 2011: 9 '11 2012: 5 2013: 19 2014: 12 '14 2015: 8 2016: 4 2017: 6 '17 2018: 3 2019: 5 2025: 1 '25 2026: 5
Totals across all models of the brand. Older model years have had longer to collect complaints.
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Model yearComplaints
19903
19911
19925
19936
19947
19956
199612
199712
199813
199915
200013
20017
200210
20038
200414
200518
200623
200727
200812
20099
201010
20119
20125
201319
201412
20158
20164
20176
20183
20195
20251
20265

Among the 151 of these complaints that report mileage, the median is about 65,000 miles.

Complaint counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles each brand sells, so large brands naturally have more complaints.