2018 CHRYSLER PACIFICA PLUG-IN HYBRID — Complaint #1532798
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NHTSA Complaint about HYBRID PROPULSION SYSTEM: INVERTER filed January 21, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1532798 (ODI reference 11171161) concerns a 2018 CHRYSLER PACIFICA PLUG-IN HYBRID and was filed on January 21, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 3, 2019. The vehicle had 5,492 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as hybrid propulsion system: inverter, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same CHRYSLER PACIFICA PLUG-IN HYBRID cohort independently describe similar hybrid propulsion system: inverter failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2018 CHRYSLER PACIFICA PLUG-IN HYBRID shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
WHILE DRIVING AT 60MPH ON FREEWAY, VEHICLE LOST ENGINE POWER WITHOUT WARNING AND WAS NO LONGER RESPONSIVE TO GAS PEDAL. NOT ENOUGH TIME TO MANEUVER OUT OF TRAFFIC. FIRST OCCURRED 2 WEEKS AFTER NEW VEHICLE PURCHASE. OUT OF SERVICE FOR 15 DAYS THEN RETURNED TO OWNER AFTER SOFTWARE UPDATE. SAME PROBLEM OCCURRED AGAIN 3 MONTHS LATER, DRIVING ON FREEWAY AT 60MPH. HAS CURRENTLY BEEN OUT OF SERVICE FOR 19 DAYS. DEALERSHIP SERVICE DEPARTMENT HAS ORDERED NEW POWER INVERTER MODULE (HYBRID MOTOR). *BF.. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1532798 |
| ODI Number | 11171161 |
| Date Filed | January 21, 2019 |
| Failure Date | January 3, 2019 |
| VIN | 2C4RC1L74JR |
Similar HYBRID PROPULSION SYSTEM: INVERTER Complaints for 2018 CHRYSLER PACIFICA PLUG-IN HYBRID
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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