Total Complaints
1 filings
BUICK SKYHAWK · model year
1 NHTSA complaints. A VIN lookup is required to determine whether a specific vehicle has an unrepaired recall.
NHTSA overall rating
Not crash-tested
New Car Assessment Program
The 1975BUICKSKYHAWK carries 1 consumer safety complaint in NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation database for this specific model-year cohort. Within that volume, owners reported 0 crashes, 0 fires, 0 injuries, and 0 fatalities. No NCAP 5-star crash-test rating is available for this model year in the federal database.
The most frequently selected component label in reports for the 1975 SKYHAWK is tires with 1 filings. Complaint categories reflect owner reports and intake categorization; they do not establish a defect pattern or cause.
NHTSA currently has 1 investigation file overlapping the 1975 SKYHAWK. Owners comparing this cohort against neighboring years should read the complaint-by-year trend as report volume, not a causal diagnosis. Use the related-complaint feed and the official recall lookup when researching a specific vehicle.
Total Complaints
1 filings
Crashes Reported
0 reports
Source
NHTSA ODI
Federal complaints database
At or below the fleet median complaint volume.
| Component | Count |
|---|---|
| TIRES | 1 |
IN 1975, MY FATHER BOUGHT THE SKYHAWK AS A SPECIAL ORDER. WE HAD THE VEHICLE ABOUT 6 MONTHS WHEN, WHILE DRIVING DOWN INTERSTATE 495 IN MARYLAND, THE FRONT LEFT TIRE STARTED PEELING THE STEEL OF THE STEEL BELTED TIRE. WE WERE FORTUNATE AT THAT TIME TO HEAR THE NOISE OF THE STEEL AGAINST THE WHEEL WELL, SO WE PULLED OVER ONTO THE SHOULDER. WE WERE FORTUNATE TO HAVE A MD STATE TROOPER ASSIST US WITH THE SPARE (DONUT) TIRE. WE CONTINUED THE DRIVE TO DELAWARE ON THE DONUT. SEVERAL MONTHS AFTER THAT INCIDENT, THE REAR LEFT TIRE BLEW WHILE DRIVING ON INTERSTATE 395 AT SHIRLINGTON (ARLINGTON, VA) AT THE BASE OF THE FEED-IN RAMP. SOON AFTER, THE RIGHT REAR STARTED SPLITTING STEEL, AT WHICH POINT MY FATHER HAD ALL THE TIRES REPLACED WITH GOODYEAR RATHER THAN CONTINUING TO GO BACK TO FIRESTONE AND GETTING A NEW TIRE AND CREDIT FOR THE DEFECTIVE ONE. ALTHOUGH WE NO LONGER HAVE THE CAR (IT DIED), FIRESTONE HAD THE SAME OR SIMILAR PROBLEMS WITH THEIR TIRES IN 1975. THE NEWS SEEMS TO INDICATE
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. This year-specific record is rendered from NHTSA ODI, recall, and NCAP rows for the 1975 BUICK SKYHAWK; 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.
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