NHTSA Safety Recalls
2005 Cadillac Deville Recalls
The 2005 Cadillac Deville has 1 NHTSA safety recall on file, the newest reported on June 23, 2014.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2005 Cadillac Deville. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 1
- Owner complaints
- 95
- Crashes reported
- 10
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★☆
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
1 fires
frontal crash, no overall star before 2011
On a 2005 Cadillac Deville, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
1 recall on the 2005 Cadillac Deville
Electrical system: ignition
- Campaign
- 14V355000
- Reported
- June 23, 2014
- Vehicles affected
- up to 3,141,731
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Same campaign
- also 2000–2004 Deville, 5 other models
2005 Cadillac Deville complaints by year
NHTSA has received 95 owner complaints about the 2005 Cadillac Deville, the newest on January 24, 2019. Of these, 10 describe a crash (11%) and 1 a fire; owners reported 12 injuries.
In complaints about the 2005 Cadillac Deville, the component group named most often is the electrical system (36%), followed by the steering (31%) and the air bags (19%).
The 2005 Cadillac Deville's only recall also concerns the electrical system.
Where 2005 Cadillac Deville owners gave the mileage (78 complaints), the median was 75,000 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Electrical System34
- Steering29
- Air Bags18
- Engine10
- Service Brakes5
- Power Train4
Complaints received, by year
| 2005 | 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 2 | |
| 2007 | 4 | |
| 2008 | 2 | |
| 2009 | 3 | |
| 2010 | 5 | |
| 2011 | 4 | |
| 2012 | 5 | |
| 2013 | 6 | |
| 2014 | 43 | |
| 2015 | 10 | |
| 2016 | 3 | |
| 2017 | 4 | |
| 2019 | 1 |
Complaints about the 2005 Cadillac Deville peaked in 2014, when NHTSA received 43. 12% 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 Cadillac Deville drew 0.4× the complaints of the median Cadillac Deville year in the same window: 6th highest of the 6 ranked years.
That makes 2005 one of the three best-measured Cadillac Deville years.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: none before 2011
- Frontal: 4/5
- Side: 4/5
The 95 complaints about the 2005 Cadillac Deville are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Cadillac Deville by model year
Other 2005 Cadillac models
Newest record on this page: January 24, 2019. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted