Is This A Lemon?

Year · Make · Model

1991 Dodge Spirit

What the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration knows about this vehicle: every recall, every consumer complaint, every defect investigation, every NCAP crash test. Sourced directly from NHTSA data feeds.

3
Open recalls
95
NHTSA complaints
3
Defect investigations
36
Service bulletins

NCAP safety

Overall
Not rated
Frontal
Not rated
Side
Not rated
Rollover
Not rated

Consumer complaints

95 filed
8
Crashes
7
Fires
9
Injuries reported
1
Fatalities reported

What people complain about

  • Engine AND Engine COOLING:ENGINE
    21
  • Power TRAIN:AUTOMATIC Transmission
    9
  • AIR Bags
    6
  • Electrical SYSTEM:IGNITION
    6
  • AIR BAGS:FRONTAL
    5
  • Vehicle Speed Control
    5
  • STRUCTURE:FRAME AND Members
    5
  • Electrical SYSTEM:WIRING
    3

Recalls

3 campaigns
91V122000·SEAT BELTS:FRONT:ANCHORAGE1991-07-11

FRONT OUTBOARD SAFETY BELT MAY BECOME DIFFICULT TO LATCH AND OR UNLATCH DUE TO A WEBBING STIFFENER ENTERING THE BUCKLE HOUSING AND DISLODGING THE BUCKLE LATCH GUIDE.

RiskLATCH MAY OPEN DURING ACCIDENT OR SUDDEN STOP, EXPOSINGSEAT OCCUPANT TO INCREASED RISK OF INJURY.

FixREPLACE BUCKLE LATCH ENGAGEMENT.

90V194000·AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:SENSOR/CONTROL MODULE-INACTIVE 1990-11-19

THE TWO AIR BAG SYSTEM FRONT IMPACT SENSORS MAY NOT BE SECURED TO THEIR MOUNTING BRACKETS.

RiskAIR BAG WILL NOT DEPLOY IN A FRONTAL COLLISION IF THEFRONT IMPACT SENSORS ARE NOT ATTACHED.

FixREPAIR TO ASSURE PROPER ATTACHMENT OF FRONT IMPACT SENSORS TO BRACKETS.

90V162000·SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DISC:CALIPER1990-09-04

FRONT DISC BRAKE CALIPER GUIDE PIN BOLTS MAY NOT HAVE BEEN ADEQUATELY TORQUED AND COULD LOOSEN.

RiskTHIS COULD CAUSE REDUCED BRAKING EFFECTIVENESS AND COULDRESULT IN AN ACCIDENT.

FixPROPERLY TORQUE FRONT BRAKE CALIPER GUIDE PIN BOLTS TO 250 POUNDS.

NHTSA investigations

3 actions
PE96036·VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL:LINKAGES1996-05-14 → 1996-10-31

THROTTLE WILL NOT RETURN TO THE POSITION

PE96008·SEAT BELTS1996-01-25 → 1996-06-28

SAFETY BLT LATCH OPERATION

PE91080·ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING1991-05-30 → 1991-09-30

ENGINE SPEED FLUCTUATION

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