Porsche · vehicle model
Porsche 911 Carrera S
8 NHTSA complaints and 4 safety recalls across model years 2006–2020.
- Complaints
- 8
- Recalls
- 4
- Model years
- 4
The verdict
The Porsche 911 Carrera S pairs below-average complaint volume with 4 recalls.
- Top 31%
- fewest complaints, US models
- 4
- recall campaigns
Porsche 911 Carrera S vs. all tracked models
Total NHTSA ODI complaints across models with substantive safety data
8 Lower than most lower than 67% of 3,088 models
tracked vehicle models, bucketed by value
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Source NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation · August 2026
The Porsche911 Carrera S appears in NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation database with 8 consumer safety complaints and 4 recall campaigns across 4 model years (2006–2020). That averages roughly 2 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 5 investigation files tied to this model. 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).
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. Porsche 911 Carrera S 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.