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Model years to avoid

Buick Encore

What it says about you

Opinion

Bought sensibly, parked easily, entirely fit for purpose. You have never once described it to anyone as exciting and have never once needed to.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

10 model years on record, 598 complaints filed. No year stood out against this model's own history — which means it has not drawn unusual complaints, not that it is a good car.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • pull 2016, 2019 peak 15.5% of that year's complaints
  • assistance 2017, 2018 peak 12.2% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2022 0 recalls 8 complaints
  2. 2021 0 recalls 9 complaints
  3. 2020 2 recalls 19 complaints
  4. 2019 2 recalls 84 complaints
  5. 2018 0 recalls 74 complaints
  6. 2017 2 recalls 89 complaints
  7. 2016 2 recalls 79 complaints
  8. 2015 4 recalls 124 complaints
  9. 2014 4 recalls 60 complaints
  10. 2013 6 recalls 52 complaints

What does a Buick Encore say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.