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1994 PLYMOUTH ACCLAIM — Complaint #167005

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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:MULTIPLE AXLE:TORQUE ARM filed August 27, 1999

NHTSA complaint #167005 (ODI reference 846014) concerns a 1994 PLYMOUTH ACCLAIM and was filed on August 27, 1999. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 19, 1999. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension:multiple axle:torque arm, 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 PLYMOUTH ACCLAIM cohort independently describe similar suspension:multiple axle:torque arm 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 1994 PLYMOUTH ACCLAIM shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
1994 PLYMOUTH ACCLAIM
Component
SUSPENSION:MULTIPLE AXLE:TORQUE ARM
State
Pennsylvania

Complaint Description

THE REAR END OF THIS VEHICLE WAS MAKING A SCRAPING SOUND WHILE BEING DRIVEN. THE NOISE WAS CAUSED BY TORQUE BAR BREAKING A TTHE POINT WHERE IT CONNECTS TO THE REAR AXEL. DEALER HAS NOT BEEN CONTACTED. *AK

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 167005
ODI Number 846014
Date Filed August 27, 1999
Failure Date August 19, 1999
VIN 1P3AA4630RF

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.