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1998 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN — Complaint #322892

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NHTSA Complaint about CHILD SEAT:HARNESS BUCKLE:INFANT filed November 15, 2001

NHTSA complaint #322892 (ODI reference 754439) concerns a 1998 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN and was filed on November 15, 2001. The report was geocoded to Illinois based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as child seat:harness buckle:infant, 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 child seat:harness buckle:infant 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 1998 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
1998 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN
Component
CHILD SEAT:HARNESS BUCKLE:INFANT
State
Illinois

Complaint Description

THE CHILD SEAT PLASTIC BUCKLES HAVE WHITE STREAKS SHOWING IN THE PLASTIC AND APPEAR READY TO BREAK ON BOTH SEATS. MANUFACTURER STATES I AM NOT PART OF A RECALL BUT WILL NOT INVESTIGATE AND CONFIRM ISSUE WITH COVERED CORRECTION, IF NECESSARY.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 322892
ODI Number 754439
Date Filed November 15, 2001
VIN 2B4GP4430WR

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