2012 Cadillac Escalade
This year drew 26 complaints, which is too few to read anything into. A share of a small number moves too much: one owner writing about the same fault twice would swing it further than a real pattern does. So nothing is claimed about this year either way. The 3 recalls below are on file regardless, and are not affected by how many people filed complaints.
Generation 1 of the Cadillac Escalade, which began in 2007 and ran to 2014. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 26 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 58 |
| Involving a crash | 3 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 15.5 mpg |
Recalls for this year
- 21V054000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 21V051000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 14V827000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Cadillac Escalade 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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