Is This A Lemon?

Year · Make · Model

1992 Plymouth Acclaim

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.

1
Open recalls
63
NHTSA complaints
2
Defect investigations
36
Service bulletins

NCAP safety

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

Consumer complaints

63 filed
11
Crashes
4
Fires
8
Injuries reported
2
Fatalities reported

What people complain about

  • AIR BAGS:FRONTAL
    8
  • Vehicle Speed Control
    7
  • SUSPENSION:REAR
    7
  • Power TRAIN:AXLE Assembly
    5
  • Electrical SYSTEM:IGNITION
    3
  • Fuel SYSTEM, GASOLINE:DELIVERY:HOSES, LINES/PIPING, AND Fittings
    3
  • Seat BELTS:FRONT:ANCHORAGE
    2
  • Power Train
    2

Recalls

1 campaign
92V015000·STEERING: STEERING WHEEL/HANDLE BAR1992-02-14

THE ZINC PLATING OPERATION PERFORMED ON THE UPPER STEERING COLUMN SHAFT COUPLING BOLT CAUSED HYDROGEN EMBRITTLEMENT AND BREAKAGE OF THE BOLT.

RiskFRACTURES OF THE UPPER STEERING COLUMN SHAFT COUPLINGBOLT RESULT IN A LACK OF COUPLING LOAD ON THE SHAFT AND LOSS OF STEERINGCONTROL.

FixREPLACE THE ZINC PLATED BOLT WITH A PHOSPHATE PLATED BOLT.

NHTSA investigations

2 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

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