2014 Buick Verano
This year drew an ordinary 101 complaints for a Buick Verano — the model's median is 59. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.9% of them mention driving vehicle, against 1.9% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 101 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 59 |
| Involving a crash | 3 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 6 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 24 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- driving vehicle — 7.9% of this year's complaints, against 1.9% across the model's other years (4.2×). Owners wrote it as: driving vehicle, able drive, feel safe.
- felt — 7.9% of this year's complaints, against 2.6% across the model's other years (3×). Owners wrote it as: felt, starts, stop start, wobble.
- depressed — 6.9% of this year's complaints, against 2.7% across the model's other years (2.5×). Owners wrote it as: depressed, accelerator pedal, bring.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
FROM A STOP START TO ACCELERATE INTO RIGHT TURN RIGHT FRONT WHEEL STARTS TO WOBBLE AND TREMORS IS FELT IN STEERING WHEEL. WOBBLE NOT FELT IN QUICK ACCELERATION ONLY IN GRADUAL ACCELERATION. IT HAS BECOME PROGRESSIVELY WORSE OVER THE LAST 5000 MILES. TOOK IT TO…
WHILE THE VEHICLE WAS AT A TRAFFIC LIGHT, THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL WAS DEPRESSED, BUT THE VEHICLE STALLED. THERE WERE NO WARNING INDICATORS ILLUMINATED. THE VEHICLE WAS ABLE TO RESTART. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO COULTER BUICK (7780 S AUTOPLEX LOOP, TEMPE, AZ 85284…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 16V502000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 14V417000 EQUIPMENT
- 14V092000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 23V674000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 23V870000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 25V764000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Buick Verano 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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