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1999 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN — Complaint #341892

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NHTSA Complaint about CHILD SEAT:HARNESS/CROTCH BUCKLE filed April 8, 2002

NHTSA complaint #341892 (ODI reference 760266) concerns a 1999 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN and was filed on April 8, 2002. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 8, 2002. The report was geocoded to Arizona based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as child seat:harness/crotch buckle, 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/crotch buckle 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 1999 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
1999 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN
Component
CHILD SEAT:HARNESS/CROTCH BUCKLE
State
Arizona

Complaint Description

WHILE PLACING A PURSE ON THE FLOOR NEXT TO THE DRIVER'S SEAT, THE DRIVER'S SEAT BELT BUCKLE INADVERTANTLY RELEASED. ALSO, WHILE A PASEENGER IN THE CENTER BENCH SEAT WAS BUCKLING THEIR SEATBELT, THE SEATBELT ON THE CHILD'S BOOSTER SEAT NEXT TO IT RELEASED.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 341892
ODI Number 760266
Date Filed April 8, 2002
Failure Date March 8, 2002
VIN 2B4GP44G7XR

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