Model years to avoid

Cadillac XT5

What it says about you

Opinion

The badge, without the parking difficulty. A reasonable trade, and one that leaves a faint sense of having made the other one.

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

10 model years on record, 292 complaints filed. That is too few to measure against. Every finding on this site compares a year with the same model's other years, and that needs about 40 complaints in a year and 4 years to compare it with. This nameplate has 2. So nothing is claimed either way — the recalls and ratings below are the record, and they are the whole record.

The years to look at closely: 2018 (reduced), 2017 (now). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

Every year

  1. 2026 0 recalls 1 complaints
  2. 2025 1 recall 3 complaints
  3. 2024 3 recalls 10 complaints
  4. 2023 4 recalls 15 complaints
  5. 2022 3 recalls 9 complaints
  6. 2021 2 recalls 13 complaints
  7. 2020 5 recalls 22 complaints
  8. 2019 0 recalls 32 complaints
  9. 2018 reduced 66 complaints
  10. 2017 now 121 complaints

What does a Cadillac XT5 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.