2007 CHRYSLER 300 — Complaint #896372
Open-data reference.
NHTSA Complaint about EQUIPMENT:MECHANICAL:INTEGRATED JACK/LEVELER/STABILIZER filed December 21, 2011
NHTSA complaint #896372 (ODI reference 10440870) concerns a 2007 CHRYSLER 300 and was filed on December 21, 2011. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 20, 2011. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as equipment:mechanical:integrated jack/leveler/stabilizer, 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. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.
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 300 cohort independently describe similar equipment:mechanical:integrated jack/leveler/stabilizer 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 2007 CHRYSLER 300 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
EMERGENCY CAR JACK FAILED WHILE CHANGING TIRE ON FLAT SURFACE, CAR JACK GAVE OUT AND DROPPED VEHICLE BREAKING REAR STABILIZER BAR. COULD HAVE BEEN SERIOUSLY INJURED IF I WAS BY TIRE LOCATION OR UNDER VEHICLE. THE CAR ALSO HAS A SHIFTER COLUMN THAT WILL LOCK IN PARK AND WILL NOT CHANGE TO ANY OTHER GEAR, LOCKS SHIFTER LEAVING YOU STRANDED. CHRYSLER HAS RECALL ON OTHER VEHICLES USING SAME EQUIPMENT BUT NOT THE 2007 CHRYSLER 300C. THE CAR JACK COULD NOT SUPPORT VEHICLE AND BENT ALMOST IN HALF. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 896372 |
| ODI Number | 10440870 |
| Date Filed | December 21, 2011 |
| Failure Date | December 20, 2011 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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