NHTSA Safety Recalls
2005 Buick Rendezvous Recalls
The 2005 Buick Rendezvous has 2 NHTSA safety recalls on file, the newest reported on October 31, 2006.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2005 Buick Rendezvous. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 2
- Owner complaints
- 138
- Crashes reported
- 10
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★☆☆
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
1 fires
frontal crash, no overall star before 2011
On a 2005 Buick Rendezvous, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
2 recalls on the 2005 Buick Rendezvous
Air bags: frontal
- Campaign
- 06V417000
- Reported
- October 31, 2006
- Vehicles affected
- up to 794
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Same campaign
- also 2006 Rendezvous, 10 other models
Fuel system, other: storage: tank assembly: pressure relief devices
- Campaign
- 07E021000
- Risk NHTSA names
- fire
- Same campaign
- also 2002–2004 Rendezvous, 13 other models
2005 Buick Rendezvous complaints by year
NHTSA has received 138 owner complaints about the 2005 Buick Rendezvous, the newest on October 7, 2025. Of these, 10 describe a crash (7%) and 1 a fire; owners reported 10 injuries.
In complaints about the 2005 Buick Rendezvous, the component group named most often is the electrical system (28%), followed by the engine (13%) and the steering (13%).
None of the 2005 Buick Rendezvous's 2 recalls concerns the electrical system.
Where 2005 Buick Rendezvous owners gave the mileage (118 complaints), the median was 55,000 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Electrical System38
- Engine18
- Steering18
- Power Train17
- Engine And Engine Cooling14
- Vehicle Speed Control13
Complaints received, by year
| 2005 | 11 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 13 | |
| 2007 | 7 | |
| 2008 | 12 | |
| 2009 | 6 | |
| 2010 | 7 | |
| 2011 | 16 | |
| 2012 | 11 | |
| 2013 | 3 | |
| 2014 | 21 | |
| 2015 | 9 | |
| 2016 | 6 | |
| 2017 | 3 | |
| 2018 | 4 | |
| 2019 | 4 | |
| 2020 | 2 | |
| 2022 | 1 | |
| 2023 | 1 | |
| 2025 | 1 |
Complaints about the 2005 Buick Rendezvous peaked in 2014, when NHTSA received 21. 31% arrived between 2004 and 2008, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2005 vehicles, the 2005 Buick Rendezvous drew 0.8× the complaints of the median Buick Rendezvous year in the same window: 4th highest of the 6 ranked years.
That makes 2005 one of the three best-measured Buick Rendezvous years.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: none before 2011
- Frontal: 3/5
- Side: 5/5
The 138 complaints about the 2005 Buick Rendezvous are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Buick Rendezvous by model year
Other 2005 Buick models
Newest record on this page: October 7, 2025. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted