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Porsche Carrera 4
1 NHTSA complaints and 0 safety recalls across model years 1990–1990.
- Complaints
- 1
- Recalls
- 0
- Model years
- 1
The verdict
The Porsche Carrera 4 has zero recalls.
- 0
- recall campaigns
Porsche Carrera 4 vs. all tracked models
Total NHTSA ODI complaints across models with substantive safety data
1 Among the lowest lower than 97% of 3,088 models
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Source NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation · August 2026
The PorscheCarrera 4 appears in NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation database with 1 consumer safety complaints and 0 recall campaigns across 1 model year (1990–1990). That averages roughly 1 complaint 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.
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
| Year | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 1990 | 1 |
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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 Carrera 4 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.