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Bentley Bentayga
20 NHTSA complaints and 17 safety recalls across model years 2017–2021.
- Complaints
- 20
- Recalls
- 17
- Model years
- 4
The verdict
The Bentley Bentayga pairs below-average complaint volume with 17 recalls (heavily recalled).
- Top 47%
- fewest complaints, US models
- 17
- recall campaigns
Bentley Bentayga vs. all tracked models
Total NHTSA ODI complaints across models with substantive safety data
20 Lower than most lower than 53% of 3,088 models
tracked vehicle models, bucketed by value
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Source NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation · August 2026
The BentleyBentayga appears in NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation database with 20 consumer safety complaints and 17 recall campaigns across 4 model years (2017–2021). That averages roughly 5 complaints per model year. Report counts can differ between model years for many reasons; this dataset does not establish the cause of a difference.
Complaint volume on a nameplate alone is not a reliability verdict: a long-running bestseller can accumulate more filings than a low-volume niche model because more vehicles are on the road. The table below shows report counts and published NHTSA crash-test ratings side by side for each model year. The filing-year histogram shows the timing of submitted reports, not a causal trend.
NHTSA has no investigation files tied specifically to this model in the current dataset. Investigation records, complaint reports, and recall campaigns each provide different context. Use the official NHTSA VIN lookup and the underlying notices to research a specific vehicle; PlainCars does not infer a vehicle-risk or pricing conclusion from these records.
Complaints by Year
Complaint Filing Trend
NHTSA complaint volume by year filed (not model year).
Filings moved from 15 in 2017-2021 to 5 in 2022-2026, a fall of 66.7%. That is the 30th percentile of change across the 763 nameplates with enough filings in both windows to compare, where 0 is the steepest fall and 100 the steepest rise.
Filing volume, not a reliability verdict: counts also move with how many vehicles are on the road, how old they are, and whether a recall drew attention. Computed from this portal's NHTSA filing-year records over the same two windows the trend rankings use.
Year filed (bar labels show the complaint count).
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Data sources
Data vintage: August 2026. Sources: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) complaints database, NHTSA recall campaign API, NHTSA NCAP crash-test ratings, and NHTSA FARS for fatality cross-reference.
Every figure on PlainCars is rendered directly from NHTSA complaint and safety data, no number is typed in by an editor. Bentley Bentayga totals are aggregated from the linked NHTSA model-year rows; no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.