Oldsmobile Eldorado: problems, complaints, bulletins
Summary for the Oldsmobile Eldorado across 1 model years: 3 owner complaints and 0 NHTSA service bulletins, plus repair videos. Pick a year for details.
Model years
| Year | Owner complaints | involving a crash | Technical service bulletins (TSB) | YouTube repair videos |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What fails most often
- Tires: 3 complaints (100% of all).
Components owners complain about
| Component | Owner complaints | involving a crash | Technical service bulletins (TSB) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tires | 3 | 0 | 0 |
What owners report
Short excerpts of NHTSA complaints in the original wording. These are owner statements not verified by NHTSA; personal data removed.
Truck tires we were traveling along I 75 when a truck's trailer tire exploded causing the truck swerve towards us forcing us to change lanes to miss the truck and tire pieces. On this trip we saw 4 other trucks have flat tires and at least 10 places on the road we had to avoid pieces of truck tires that had exploded.
I have written previously about my 2000 oldsmobile alero, clearly from the earliest of complaints which I share with other owners, gm does not care about the problems from brakes, tires, intake gaskets, windows braking, blower motors going, no dipsticks for transmission lines, I could go on and on, the message I…
Yesterday while driving on a smooth interstate my other front tire same brand had the entire tread separate. The tire remained inflated as I pulled off the road. My two rear tires are the same model and I am conserned about the safety of these tires.
When owners complained
NHTSA complaints by filing year. The peak shows at what age the problems show up most.
What to check before buying
- Tires. Tire age by DOT code, bulges, wear pattern.
Other models of this make
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Sources: public NHTSA data (USA): service bulletins and owner complaints; YouTube: links to videos credited to their authors. Complaints are owner statements not verified by NHTSA, and describe defects rather than crash damage. Data updated 2026-11-05.