2014 Buick Regal
Complaints about this year name loss far more often than the model's other years — 14% of them, about 34× the usual rate of 0.4%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 74 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 19 |
| Involving a crash | 2 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 24 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- normally — 6.8% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the model's other years (33.8×).
- city — 8.1% of this year's complaints, against 1.1% across the model's other years (7.4×). Owners wrote it as: city, stations, reception, station.
- opened — 8.1% of this year's complaints, against 1.1% across the model's other years (7.3×).
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
Also unusual this year
- find — 14% of complaints, 34× usual
- engine light — 14% of complaints, 34× usual
- sunroof — 14% of complaints, 34× usual
What owners wrote
PURCHASED IN JAN 2021 WITH 94K MILES AND AS OF MAR 2021 96K MILES A CATASTROPHIC ENGINE FAILURE OF THE #4 CYLINDER. CRACK IN THE PISTON RING GROOVES AND NOW HAS ZERO COMPRESSION. WHILE DRIVING THE HIGHWAY AT 74 MPH. LOSS OF ENGINE POWER AND CHECK ENGINE LIGHT…
MY SUNROOF SHATTERED WHEN DRIVING. SHARDS OF GLASS FELL DOWN ON THE DRIVER AND PASSENGER.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 14V409000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 14V092000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Buick Regal was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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