2017 Cadillac CTS
This year drew an ordinary 47 complaints for a Cadillac CTS — the model's median is 108. What they were about is the unusual part: 25.5% of them mention vin, against 8.6% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 47 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 108 |
| Involving a crash | 2 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 24 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- vin — 25.5% of this year's complaints, against 8.6% across the model's other years (3×).
- year — 19.1% of this year's complaints, against 5% across the model's other years (3.8×).
- tire — 17% of this year's complaints, against 5.6% across the model's other years (3.1×). Owners wrote it as: tire, sidewall, tire sidewall, weeks.
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.
What owners wrote
4 FLAT TIRES IN WEEKS. DESIGN FLAW WITH THE WHEEL. TIRE SIDEWALL IS CUT BY THE WHEEL WHEN HITTING ROAD IMPERFECTIONS. THEY ARE LOW PROFILE TIRES BUT THEY DO NOT HANDLE BASIC ROAD IMPERFECTIONS. THE WHEEL AND TIRE COMBO RENDERS THE CAR UNRELIABLE FOR TRANSPORTA…
while driving at various speeds and making a turn, the rear of the vehicle was dragging. Additionally, the contact stated that the rear tires were bowed out. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic, where it was diagnosed that the rear differential wa…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V086000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 25V175000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Cadillac CTS 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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