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2018 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN — Complaint #2020225

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NHTSA Complaint about SEATS:FRONT ASSEMBLY:HEAD RESTRAINT filed August 28, 2024

NHTSA complaint #2020225 (ODI reference 11611331) concerns a 2018 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN and was filed on August 28, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 1, 2021. The vehicle had 60,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Texas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as seats:front assembly:head restraint, 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 GRAND CARAVAN cohort independently describe similar seats:front assembly:head restraint 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 GRAND CARAVAN shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2018 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN
Component
SEATS:FRONT ASSEMBLY:HEAD RESTRAINT
State
Texas
Mileage
60,000 mi

Complaint Description

The contact owns a 2018 Dodge Grand Caravan. The contact stated that the front passenger’s side seat headrest had exploded while the vehicle was turned off. On another occasion, while driving approximately 10 MPH, the contact heard a loud explosion and the driver's side seat headrest exploded. The contact stated that no injuries were sustained. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 60,000.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 2020225
ODI Number 11611331
Date Filed August 28, 2024
Failure Date January 1, 2021
VIN 2C4RDGBD2JR

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