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2018 CHRYSLER PACIFICA — Complaint #1765569

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NHTSA Complaint about SEATS filed August 29, 2021

NHTSA complaint #1765569 (ODI reference 11430921) concerns a 2018 CHRYSLER PACIFICA and was filed on August 29, 2021. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 21, 2021. The report was geocoded to Virginia based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as seats, 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 cohort independently describe similar seats 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 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2018 CHRYSLER PACIFICA
Component
SEATS
State
Virginia

Complaint Description

This vehicle comes equipped with Stow N Go middle seats. It is a useful feature for sure. However, upon placing one of the seats back into its locked position, the headrest would no longer stay locked in its upright position. Upon taking the headrest apart to try to fix the issue, I found a very cheap plastic mechanism inside that had snapped. This very flimsy plastic piece is very much liable to fail in an accident, and cause the headrest to flop forward and not provide the support required.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1765569
ODI Number 11430921
Date Filed August 29, 2021
Failure Date August 21, 2021
VIN 2C4RC1BG2JR

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