2006 DODGE VIPER COUPE — Complaint #2156073
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:AXLE ASSEMBLY filed December 10, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2156073 (ODI reference 11704239) concerns a 2006 DODGE VIPER COUPE and was filed on December 10, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on November 19, 2025. The vehicle had 13,378 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Kansas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:axle assembly, 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: yes, fire: no, injuries: 1, fatalities: 0. A complaint that flags a crash, fire, or fatality is escalated on NHTSA's internal review queue and factors more heavily into any Preliminary Evaluation decision on this make and model. 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 VIPER COUPE cohort independently describe similar power train:axle assembly 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 2006 DODGE VIPER COUPE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact was driving a 2006 Dodge Viper. The contact stated that while driving at 60 MPH, the rear differential locked, causing the rear tires to not rotate. The rear of the vehicle then skidded and crashed into a ditch, and flipped, coming to a stop 100-150 feet upside down in the ditch. The air bags failed to deploy. The contact mentioned that the rear differential was previously serviced at a dealer. The contact sustained neck and back injuries. Medical attention was later required. A police report was filed. The vehicle was towed to an unknown location. The contact stated that the vehicle was previously repaired for an air bag recall, and when asked the technician who performed the recall remedy why the air bags did not deploy, it was informed that the dealer did not have adequate software to complete the recall remedy. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 13,378.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2156073 |
| ODI Number | 11704239 |
| Date Filed | December 10, 2025 |
| Failure Date | November 19, 2025 |
| VIN | 1B3JZ69Z26V |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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