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2005 Cadillac SRX

This year drew an ordinary 122 complaints for a Cadillac SRX — the model's median is 389. What they were about is the unusual part: 21.3% of them mention timing, against 7.4% across the model's other years.

NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.

What the complaints were about

• timing — 21.3% of this year's complaints, against 7.4% across the model's other years (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: timing, chain, timing chain, belt.
• lock — 9% of this year's complaints, against 1.5% across the model's other years (6×). Owners wrote it as: lock, trunk, rear trunk, amount oil.
• traction — 12.3% of this year's complaints, against 4.2% across the model's other years (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: traction, traction control, problem happen, changing.

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

THE CAR HAS A REAR LEAK THAT BUILDS UP IN THE TRUCK AND HOLDS WATER THERE WHERE THE JACK IS LOCATED WHICH IS NOW STUCK TO THE CARPET AND LOTS OF MOVEMENT IN THE REAR END OF THIS VEHICLE IS DEFECTIVE AND NEED TO HAVE A RECALL ON BOTH OF THESE ISSUES ALONG WITH…

THE TRACTION CONTROL WOULD ACTIVATE ABNORMALLY, WHEN IT WAS NOT ENGAGED BY THE CONTACT. THE FAILURE WOULD CAUSE THE CONTACT TO LOSE CONTROL OF THE VEHICLE. THE VEHICLE WAS INSPECTED BY THE DEALER WHO ADVISED THAT THE THEY WOULD REPROGRAM THE VEHICLE. THE VEHIC…

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.

Recalls for this year

• 14V394000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
• 07V589000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
• 06V125000 SUSPENSION

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How this was worked out

Every year of the Cadillac SRX 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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