Total Complaints
5 filings
Oldsmobile Oldsmobile · model year
5 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 verdict
The 1993 Oldsmobile Oldsmobile posts above-average complaint volume among its own model-year siblings.
The 1993OldsmobileOldsmobile carries 5 consumer safety complaints 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 1993 Oldsmobile is electrical system:wiring:fuses and circuit breakers with 2 filings, followed by electrical system:ignition:anti-theft:control module (1) and seats (1). Complaint categories reflect owner reports and intake categorization; they do not establish a defect pattern or cause.
NHTSA currently has 12 investigation files overlapping the 1993 Oldsmobile. 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.
PlainCars' own composite of NHTSA NCAP crash-test ratings and rollover-risk assessment, each dimension normalized against the federal scale or the full national model-year corpus. Not an official NHTSA figure, and not a substitute for a specific vehicle's VIN-level recall check.
Total Complaints
5 filings
Crashes Reported
0 reports
Source
NHTSA ODI
Federal complaints database
At or below the fleet median complaint volume.
| Component | Count |
|---|---|
| ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:WIRING:FUSES AND CIRCUIT BREAKERS | 2 |
| ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:IGNITION:ANTI-THEFT:CONTROL MODULE | 1 |
| SEATS | 1 |
| FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:DELIVERY:HOSES, LINES/PIPING, AND FITTINGS | 1 |
DT*: THE CONTACT STATED THERE WAS A SMELL OF FUEL IN AND AROUND THE VEHICLE. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO A PRIVATE REPAIR SHOP, WHERE IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THERE WAS A FUEL LEAK IN THE PIPES CONNECTED TO THE FUEL TANK.
Mileage: 71,345
FRONT SEATS DESIGN DOES NOT ALLOW FOR SEATING TO LOCK INTO PLACE RESULTING IN POOR STABILITY.
THE DYNAMIC ELECTRONICS "ELECTRO LOCK" WAS DEFECTIVE CAUSING VEHICLE TO NOT START AT TIMES. THIS ITEM WAS LATER RECALLED.
FUSE THAT CONTROL TAIL LIGHT AND FLASHERS LIGHT BLOW OUT, REPLACE 4 TIMES. TT
FUSE THAT CONTROL TAIL LIGHT AND FLASHERS LIGHT BLOW OUT, REPLACE 4 TIMES. TT
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 1993 Oldsmobile Oldsmobile; 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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