2008 DODGE AVENGER — Complaint #1558031
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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC) filed April 15, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1558031 (ODI reference 11196439) concerns a 2008 DODGE AVENGER and was filed on April 15, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on November 1, 2018. The vehicle had 92,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to New York based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electronic stability control (esc), 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 DODGE AVENGER cohort independently describe similar electronic stability control (esc) 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 2008 DODGE AVENGER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2008 DODGE AVENGER. WHILE DRIVING VARIOUS SPEEDS, THE VEHICLE STALLED AND THE TIRE PRESSURE MONITORING SYSTEM INDICATOR ILLUMINATED. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO MULLEN MOTORS (55980 NY-25, SOUTHOLD, NY, (631) 765-3564), BUT THE FAILURE COULD NOT BE DUPLICATED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS CONTACTED AND DID NOT ASSIST. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE FAILURE WAS SIMILAR TO NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 08V152000 (ELECTRICAL SYSTEM). THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 92,000. *TT CONSUMER STATED CAR STALLED WHILE DRIVING 3 TIMES. VEHICLE HAS REPAIRED.*JB
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1558031 |
| ODI Number | 11196439 |
| Date Filed | April 15, 2019 |
| Failure Date | November 1, 2018 |
| VIN | 1B3LC56KX8N |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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