What is the best year for the Buick Park Avenue?
No official dataset can support one universal best year. Use the table to compare complaint patterns and EPA figures, then open the shortlisted years for recall campaigns and exact specifications.
Model-year matrix
Buick Park Avenue
which year?
Compare every Buick Park Avenue model year the EPA recorded, 1991 to 2005. See complaint patterns, fuel economy and configurations side by side, then open any year for recall campaigns and the full dossier. Confirm against the official NHTSA recall search.
Evidence-led answer
Looking for the best Buick Park Avenue year—or years to avoid?
The official records cannot honestly name a best, worst or most reliable year. Complaint totals have no sales, mileage or age denominator. They can show where more reports were filed and which components were named, giving you years to investigate more closely before checking the exact car and its VIN.
Which Buick Park Avenue years should you avoid?
The records cannot justify a blanket avoid label. Years with more reports are surfaced below as research priorities, not predictions about every car from that year.
01 · More reports to inspect1998
246 indexed complaint reports; engine and engine cooling is the most-reported component label.
Open the 1998 dossier →02 · More reports to inspect1997219 indexed complaint reports; engine and engine cooling is the most-reported component label.
Open the 1997 dossier →03 · More reports to inspect1999140 indexed complaint reports; engine and engine cooling is the most-reported component label.
Open the 1999 dossier →Do not read this as an avoid list. Older and higher-selling model years usually accumulate more reports. A low count can also mean a newer, rarer or poorly matched vehicle—not a safer one.
Complaint totals are counts of owner-submitted allegations, not confirmed defects, and they carry no denominator: they are not adjusted for how many cars were sold, how old they are, how far they are driven, or how much publicity a fault received. A high-volume or older year will usually show more reports than a rare or recent one. The site does not convert these into a reliability score, because the data needed to do that honestly is not in the public record.
Direct comparison
Compare two Buick Park Avenue model years.
Choose any two years. The URL keeps the pair so you can return to the same comparison. Every figure below is an observed official record or EPA estimate—not a reliability score.
2004 Buick Park Avenue
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 12
- Combined EPA economy
- 20–21 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 2
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $2,950–3,800
- Fuel labels
- Premium Gasoline · Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelselectrical system 3exterior lighting 3wheels 2
Open the 2004 evidence dossier →2005 Buick Park Avenue
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 8
- Combined EPA economy
- 20–21 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 2
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $2,950–3,800
- Fuel labels
- Premium Gasoline · Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelswheels 3suspension 2unknown or other 2
Open the 2005 evidence dossier →Observed complaint-record difference
2005 has 4 fewer indexed complaint allegations than 2004.
This is not a rate or reliability finding. The counts have no sales, mileage, age or exposure denominator, and newer years have had less time to accumulate reports.Side by side
Buick Park Avenue by year.
Complaint bars are scaled against this model’s own highest year, so they compare years with each other and with nothing else.
| Year | Complaints | Most-reported components | Combined MPG | EPA configs | Annual fuel cost | Dossier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 8 | wheels 3suspension 2unknown or other 2 | 20–21 | 2 | $2,950–3,800 | Dossier → |
| 2004 | 12 | electrical system 3exterior lighting 3wheels 2 | 20–21 | 2 | $2,950–3,800 | Dossier → |
| 2003 | 33 | engine and engine cooling 8electrical system 5tires 5 | 19–21 | 2 | $2,950–4,000 | Dossier → |
| 2002 | 32 | electrical system 7engine 6engine and engine cooling 4 | 19–21 | 2 | $2,950–4,000 | Dossier → |
| 2001 | 57 | electrical system 11steering 9visibility 8 | 20 | 2 | $3,100–3,800 | Dossier → |
| 2000 | 81 | engine and engine cooling 14electrical system 12service brakes, hydraulic 10 | 19–20 | 2 | $3,100–4,000 | Dossier → |
| 1999 | 140 | engine and engine cooling 43electrical system 19seat belts 18 | 19–20 | 2 | $3,100–4,000 | Dossier → |
| 1998 | 246 | engine and engine cooling 115seat belts 34electrical system 29 | 19–20 | 2 | $3,100–3,250 | Dossier → |
| 1997 | 219 | engine and engine cooling 59seat belts 58service brakes, hydraulic 43 | 19–20 | 2 | $3,100–4,000 | Dossier → |
| 1996 | 59 | air bags 10electrical system 10engine and engine cooling 10 | 19–21 | 2 | $2,950–4,000 | Dossier → |
| 1995 | 117 | electrical system 22steering 22engine and engine cooling 17 | 20 | 1 | $3,100 | Dossier → |
| 1994 | 48 | service brakes, hydraulic 11structure 11electrical system 9 | 18–20 | 2 | $3,100–3,400 | Dossier → |
| 1993 | 64 | service brakes, hydraulic 24engine and engine cooling 13electrical system 12 | 18–20 | 2 | $3,100–4,200 | Dossier → |
| 1992 | 77 | service brakes, hydraulic 28engine and engine cooling 13air bags 9 | 18–19 | 2 | $3,250–4,200 | Dossier → |
| 1991 | 92 | service brakes, hydraulic 75electrical system 10engine and engine cooling 7 | 19 | 1 | $3,250 | Dossier → |
Evidence snapshot generated . “Not indexed” means NHTSA holds no complaint record matching this exact year, make and model — not that no fault occurred. Recall campaigns are not summarised here: NHTSA publishes no bulk recall dataset, and fetching them per year would take longer than the page should. Each year’s dossier shows its recalls in full, live from NHTSA.