NHTSA Safety Recalls
2004 Buick Century Recalls
The 2004 Buick Century has 2 NHTSA safety recalls on file.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2004 Buick Century. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 2
- Owner complaints
- 39
- Crashes reported
- 4
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★☆
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
in complaints
frontal crash, no overall star before 2011
On a 2004 Buick Century, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
2 recalls on the 2004 Buick Century
2004 Buick Century complaints by year
NHTSA has received 39 owner complaints about the 2004 Buick Century, the newest on November 20, 2020. Of these, 4 describe a crash (10%); owners reported 5 injuries.
In complaints about the 2004 Buick Century, the component group named most often is the exterior lighting (28%), followed by the air bags (15%) and the electrical system (13%).
None of the 2004 Buick Century's 2 recalls concerns the exterior lighting.
Where 2004 Buick Century owners gave the mileage (34 complaints), the median was 70,000 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Exterior Lighting11
- Air Bags6
- Electrical System5
- Engine4
- Fuel/Propulsion System3
- Suspension3
Complaints received, by year
| 2004 | 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 3 | |
| 2006 | 2 | |
| 2007 | 2 | |
| 2008 | 5 | |
| 2009 | 1 | |
| 2010 | 1 | |
| 2011 | 1 | |
| 2012 | 1 | |
| 2013 | 2 | |
| 2014 | 4 | |
| 2015 | 5 | |
| 2016 | 1 | |
| 2017 | 1 | |
| 2018 | 3 | |
| 2019 | 1 | |
| 2020 | 3 |
Complaints about the 2004 Buick Century peaked in 2008, when NHTSA received 5. 26% arrived between 2003 and 2007, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2004 vehicles, the 2004 Buick Century drew 0.2× the complaints of the median Buick Century year in the same window: 5th highest of the 5 ranked years.
That makes 2004 one of the three best-measured Buick Century years.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: none before 2011
- Frontal: 4/5
- Side: 3/5
The 39 complaints about the 2004 Buick Century are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Buick Century by model year
Other 2004 Buick models
Newest record on this page: November 20, 2020. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted