2005 Buick Rainier
This year drew 103 complaints against a median of 91 across the Buick Rainier's other years, 1.1× that median. No single fault was reported unusually often, and it did not reach the 2.5× threshold this site flags at. It has 1 recall, listed below.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 103 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 91 |
| Involving a crash | 6 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| EPA combined | 16 mpg |
Recalls for this year
- 05V035000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Buick Rainier 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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