2000 Cadillac Seville — reported problems

CarFaultIQ holds 373 evidence records for the 2000 Cadillac Seville, drawn from official sources and owner complaints.

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 56 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

  • Engine9 (16.1%)
  • Steering6 (10.7%)Official recall records for this system: 3, covering model years 2000–2002.
  • Suspension6 (10.7%)
  • Brakes5 (8.9%)Official recall records for this system: 4, covering model years 1997–2000.
  • Lights5 (8.9%)
  • Electrical system4 (7.1%)Official recall records for this system: 3, covering model years 1996–1999.

Other / uncategorized: 2 classifications (3.6%) were not assigned to a specific system by the source. They are counted but not treated as an issue area.

These are counts of records held by CarFaultIQ, not a failure rate. More records can simply mean more vehicles were sold or more owners reported. No vehicles-in-service figure exists in this data, so no reliability or risk score can be derived from it.

What the records are about, by source

Each source is kept separate: owner complaints, recalls, manufacturer communications and investigations are different kinds of record and are never added together. All model years.

  • Owner complaints (1,180 records, model years 1995–2004) are most frequently classified under: engine, electrical system and steering.
  • Manufacturer communications (3,080 records, model years 1995–2004) are most frequently classified under: equipment & accessories, engine and electrical system.

"Most frequently classified under" reports how the records are filed by the source. It is not a finding about causes, and a record can be filed under more than one system. Read the individual records

Evidence by model year

Records held per model year. Select a year to narrow this page to it.

  1. 1995 129 records for 1995
  2. 1996 174 records for 1996
  3. 1997 163 records for 1997
  4. 1998 165 records for 1998
  5. 1999 173 records for 1999
  6. 2000 373 records for 2000
  7. 2001 449 records for 2001
  8. 2002 476 records for 2002
  9. 2003 459 records for 2003
  10. 2004 447 records for 2004

Counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold in each year, so a taller year is not necessarily a worse year.

Reports mentioning outcomes

  • 2mention a crash

These are counts of records whose report mentioned the outcome. They are not a severity rating and not a safety assessment of this vehicle.

Official records held

  • Safety recalls NHTSA 2
  • Manufacturer communications NHTSA 331
  • Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 2
  • Owner complaints NHTSA 38

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Diagnostic codes found in evidence for this vehicle

These codes appear by explicit identifier in official records matched to this exact model and year.

A code appearing in a record means the code was named in that document. It is not a diagnosis of this vehicle, not a fault this vehicle has, and not an indication of urgency. Diagnosis requires reading live data from the vehicle.

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