Cadillac STS — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 1,050 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Air bags (restraint system)208 (19.8%)
• Electrical system140 (13.3%)
• Engine120 (11.4%)
• Powertrain (transmission & drivetrain)94 (9.0%)Official recall records for this system: 2, covering model years 2005–2007.
• Fuel system74 (7.0%)Official recall records for this system: 4, covering model years 2005–2007.
• Stability & traction control56 (5.3%)

Other / uncategorized: 32 classifications (3.0%) 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 (736 records, model years 2005–2011) are most frequently classified under: air bags (restraint system), electrical system and engine.
• Manufacturer communications (8,374 records, model years 2005–2011) are most frequently classified under: equipment & accessories, electrical system and engine.

"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

Mileage reported when the issue occurred

• 598reports included a mileage
• 69,110average of those mileages

This is the mileage owners recorded at the time they reported, not an expected failure mileage and not a prediction for any individual vehicle. The lowest and highest figures on record are not shown: they are unverified odometer entries that include zeros and implausibly high readings, so they would not describe a real range. A median is not shown either, because the stored figures are group totals and a median cannot be recovered from them.

Evidence by model year

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

1. 2005 734 records for 2005 734
2. 2006 904 records for 2006 904
3. 2007 986 records for 2007 986
4. 2008 1,086 records for 2008 1,086
5. 2009 1,095 records for 2009 1,095
6. 2010 1,229 records for 2010 1,229
7. 2011 1,242 records for 2011 1,242

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

• 90mention a crash
• 24mention a fire
• 62mention an injury

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 16
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 8,374
• Investigations NHTSA 4
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 18
• Owner complaints NHTSA 736

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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.

• P0008 in 62 records · 2005–2011
• P0016 in 62 records · 2005–2011
• P0017 in 62 records · 2005–2011
• P0018 in 62 records · 2005–2011
• P0019 in 35 records · 2005–2011
• P0442 in 35 records · 2005–2011
• P2097 in 35 records · 2005–2011
• P0009 in 27 records · 2007–2011
• C0561 in 18 records · 2006–2011
• P0575 in 18 records · 2006–2011
• P0615 in 18 records · 2006–2011
• P0700 in 18 records · 2006–2011

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.