Buick Recalls
Check open Buick recalls by VIN. CheckMyVIN queries NHTSA's live recall API on every lookup — no stale snapshots, no signup.
How Buick recall lookups work
When you enter a Buick VIN, CheckMyVIN first decodes the vehicle (make, model, model year) against NHTSA VPIC. Those three fields are then sent to the NHTSA recallsByVehicle API, which returns every open campaign on file. Each result shows the official NHTSA campaign number (format: two-digit year, "V" for vehicle, six-digit sequence — e.g. 19V472000), the affected component, a paraphrased plain-English summary, and the dealer remedy. Buick dealers perform recall work at no charge regardless of who currently owns the vehicle.
Why check Buick recalls before buying used?
A used-car dealer is not required to complete open recalls before sale in most US states. Run the VIN before the test drive — if a recall is open, you can either ask the dealer to complete it before delivery, negotiate the price, or schedule the free fix at a Buick authorized dealer after purchase.
Notable past Buick recall campaigns
A few well-documented campaigns to show the kind of data CheckMyVIN surfaces per VIN. Click any campaign number for the full record on nhtsa.gov. Summaries below paraphrase the official NHTSA records — verify against the source for the authoritative wording.
NHTSA campaign 14V118000
Air bags: seat-mounted side-impact airbag wiring
2008-2013 Buick Enclave (and GMC Acadia / Chevrolet Traverse / Saturn Outlook)
Increased resistance in the driver and passenger seat-mounted side-impact-airbag wiring harnesses could keep the side airbags and seat-belt pretensioners from deploying in a crash, raising injury risk. GM dealers replace the harness connections with soldered connections at no charge.
NHTSA campaign 20V639000
Fuel system, gasoline: fuel-pump jet nozzle
2020 Buick Enclave (and Cadillac XT5 / XT6, Chevrolet Traverse, GMC Acadia)
A plastic burr left on the fuel pump's jet nozzle from manufacturing could block the nozzle and starve the engine of fuel, causing an unexpected stall and raising crash risk. GM dealers replace the fuel-pump module at no charge.
Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, via api.nhtsa.gov/recalls. Campaign numbers and components are verbatim from NHTSA; summaries are paraphrased.
What CheckMyVIN does not do
Some recalls are VIN-specific within a model year — only certain build dates or option packages are affected. NHTSA's public API returns the campaign for the year/make/model; for the final "is my exact VIN affected" answer, Buick also publishes a VIN-specific lookup on their owners site, and you can search any campaign number on the NHTSA recall portal. CheckMyVIN cites every campaign by its official number so you can verify independently.
Want the full spec decode for this Buick — engine code, assembly plant, model year, body class — alongside its recall history? Run it through the Buick VIN Decoder; the report covers both the NHTSA specifications and every open recall in a single sticker.