Total Complaints
2 filings
Chrysler Town AND Country · model year
2 NHTSA complaints. A VIN lookup is required to determine whether a specific vehicle has an unrepaired recall.
NHTSA overall rating
Not crash-tested
New Car Assessment Program
The verdict
The 1983 Chrysler Town AND Country posts top-10% complaint standing among its own model-year siblings.
The 1983ChryslerTown AND Country carries 2 consumer safety complaints in NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation database for this specific model-year cohort. Within that volume, owners reported 0 crashes, 0 fires, 0 injuries, and 0 fatalities. No NCAP 5-star crash-test rating is available for this model year in the federal database.
The most frequently selected component label in reports for the 1983 Town AND Country is service brakes, hydraulic:antilock/traction control/electronic limited slip with 1 filings, followed by service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components (1). Complaint categories reflect owner reports and intake categorization; they do not establish a defect pattern or cause.
NHTSA currently has 3 investigation files overlapping the 1983 Town AND Country. Owners comparing this cohort against neighboring years should read the complaint-by-year trend as report volume, not a causal diagnosis. Use the related-complaint feed and the official recall lookup when researching a specific vehicle.
PlainCars' own composite of NHTSA NCAP crash-test ratings and rollover-risk assessment, each dimension normalized against the federal scale or the full national model-year corpus. Not an official NHTSA figure, and not a substitute for a specific vehicle's VIN-level recall check.
Total Complaints
2 filings
Crashes Reported
0 reports
Source
NHTSA ODI
Federal complaints database
At or below the fleet median complaint volume.
| Component | Count |
|---|---|
| SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:ANTILOCK/TRACTION CONTROL/ELECTRONIC LIMITED SLIP | 1 |
| SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS | 1 |
CONSUMER STATES THAT THE VEHICLE IS LEAKING BRAKE FLUID.*JB
CONSUMER STATES BRAKES INTERMITTENTLY FAIL, PROBLEMS DID NOT START TO OCCUR UNTIL AFTER VEHICLE WAS TAKEN IN FOR ABS RECALL #685 CONSUMER STATES ABS LIGHT BRAKE HAD BEEN COMING ON SPERATICALLY DURING DRIVING, VEHICLE WAS TAKEN IN FOR SERVICE, DEALER INSPECTED SYSTEM AND STATED VEHCILE WAS OPERATING AS DESIGNED AND NO FURTHER ACTION NECESSARY, AFTER LEAVING THE DEALER, HOWEVER ABS LIGHT CONTINUALLY ILLUMINATED MUCH MORE THAN BEFORE, VEHICLE WAS TAKEN BACK IN TO DEALERSHIP, BUT THEY WERE UNABLE TO CORRECT PROBLEM, FOLLOWING THIS THE BRAKES BEGAN TO INTERMITTENTLY FAIL DESPITE REGULAR BRAKE MAINTENANCE, VEHICLE WAS TOWED BACK TO DEALERSHIP WHEN THE VEHICLE FAILED TO STOP AFTER EXITING THE FREEWAY, AGAIN THE ABS BRAKE LIGHT AND THE EMERGENCY BRAKE LIGHT CAME BACK ON AND BRAKE FLUID SPEWED FROM THE MASTER CYLINDER, CONSUMER WAS ADVISED HAD THE RECALL PARTS INITIALLY BEEN REPLACED THESE COMPLICATIONS WOULD HAVE NOT TAKEN PLACE, REPAIRS WERE MADE AND WRITTEN UP AS A GOODWILL, HOWEVER BRAKES F
Data vintage: August 2026. Sources: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) complaints database, NHTSA recall campaign API, NHTSA NCAP crash-test ratings, and NHTSA FARS for fatality cross-reference.
Every figure on PlainCars is rendered directly from NHTSA complaint and safety data, no number is typed in by an editor. This year-specific record is rendered from NHTSA ODI, recall, and NCAP rows for the 1983 Chrysler Town AND Country; no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.
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