2003 Suzuki Vitara

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the structure › body. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Structure › Body1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Structure › Body
Filed Dec 11, 2012160,000 milesMA

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2003 SUZUKI VITARA. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE FRONT END OF THE VEHICLE WAS RUSTED. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER FOR INSPECTION WHERE THEY STATED THAT THE FRAME NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED AND PROVIDED NO ASSISTANCE BECAUSE OF THE VEHICLE MILEAGE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 160,000.

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1999
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20041100Routine
2003 — this page1000Routine
20021000Routine
200127110Routine
200035100Routine
199950510Routine

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Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.