2007 Cadillac STS
This year drew an ordinary 53 complaints for a Cadillac STS — the model's median is 50. What they were about is the unusual part: 9.4% of them mention least, against 3.5% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 53 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 50 |
| Involving a crash | 6 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| EPA combined | 18 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- least — 9.4% of this year's complaints, against 3.5% across the model's other years (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: least, belts, heavier, weight.
- headlights — 7.5% of this year's complaints, against 2.8% across the model's other years (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: headlights, past.
- acceleration — 7.5% of this year's complaints, against 3% across the model's other years (2.5×). Owners wrote it as: acceleration, 5th, 4th, chuckle.
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
THE PASSENGER SIDE AIR BAG WORKS INTERMITTENTLY WHEN SOMEONE OF A HEAVIER WEIGHT SITS IN THE PASSENGER SEAT. HE ALSO STATED THAT BECAUSE THE AIR BAG WAS NOT ACTIVATED, THE SEAT BELT CHIME THAT INDICATES THE SEAT BELTS WERE NOT IN USE, WOULD NOT WORK EITHER. TH…
THE VEHICLE WAS STARTED AND THE BRAKES WERE APPLIED AS SHE SHIFTED INTO DRIVE. THE VEHICLE THEN ABNORMALLY [VIN] AND CRASHED INTO ANOTHER VEHICLE PARKED IN THE DRIVEWAY CAUSING THAT VEHICLE TO CRASH INTO THE CONTACTS HOME. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO AN INDEPENDE…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 14V542000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 07V589000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Cadillac STS 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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