2018 DODGE JOURNEY — Complaint #1558607
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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE filed April 17, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1558607 (ODI reference 11195090) concerns a 2018 DODGE JOURNEY and was filed on April 17, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 17, 2019. The report was geocoded to Missouri based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as engine, 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. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.
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 JOURNEY cohort independently describe similar engine 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 DODGE JOURNEY shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
2018 DODGE JOURNEY. CONSUMER WRITES IN REGARDS TO ILLUMINATED CHECK ENGINE LIGHT. *LD THE CONSUMER STATED THE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED TWICE, BUT THE FAILURE RECURRED. THE DEALER WAS UNABLE TO DETERMINE THE CAUSE OF THE FAILUIRE. THE CONSUMER REQUESTED A FULL REFUND OR A NEW VEHICLE OF A DIFFERENT MAKE AND MODEL. *JS
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1558607 |
| ODI Number | 11195090 |
| Date Filed | April 17, 2019 |
| Failure Date | April 17, 2019 |
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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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