Oldsmobile body & structure problems
Across all Oldsmobile models in NHTSA's complaint database, 507 complaints involve body & structure. The Silhouette accounts for the largest share (24%). The single worst model year is the 1999 Alero with 32 body & structure complaints.
At a glance
- Complaints
- 507 about body & structure, all Oldsmobile models
- Most affected
- Silhouette 24% of these complaints
- Typical mileage
- 70,000 miles 115 complaints with mileage
- Crashes and fires
- 14 and 7
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Which Oldsmobile models
| Model | Complaints | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Silhouette | 120 | 24% |
| Alero | 95 | 19% |
| Cutlass | 82 | 16% |
| Bravada | 43 | 9% |
| 88 | 41 | 8% |
| Aurora | 25 | 5% |
| Intrigue | 24 | 5% |
| Achieva | 20 | 4% |
| Cutlass Supreme | 20 | 4% |
| 98 | 14 | 3% |
Worst model years for body & structure
- 1999 Oldsmobile Alero32 complaints
- 2000 Oldsmobile Alero30 complaints
- 1991 Oldsmobile Cutlass21 complaints
- 2000 Oldsmobile Silhouette19 complaints
- 1999 Oldsmobile Silhouette18 complaints
Body & structure complaints by model year
View the numbers
| Model year | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 1990 | 39 |
| 1991 | 34 |
| 1992 | 16 |
| 1993 | 22 |
| 1994 | 33 |
| 1995 | 35 |
| 1996 | 34 |
| 1997 | 41 |
| 1998 | 46 |
| 1999 | 69 |
| 2000 | 57 |
| 2001 | 28 |
| 2002 | 35 |
| 2003 | 11 |
| 2004 | 7 |
Among the 115 of these complaints that report mileage, the median is about 70,000 miles.
Complaint counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles each brand sells, so large brands naturally have more complaints.