Total Complaints
3 filings
Dodge 600 · model year
3 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 1984 Dodge 600 posts top-quartile complaint standing among its own model-year siblings.
The 1984Dodge600 carries 3 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 1984 600 is structure:frame and members with 1 filings, followed by vehicle speed control:accelerator pedal (1) and fuel system, gasoline:delivery:hoses, lines/piping, and fittings (1). Complaint categories reflect owner reports and intake categorization; they do not establish a defect pattern or cause.
NHTSA currently has 20 investigation files overlapping the 1984 600, and 1 remain open. 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
3 filings
Crashes Reported
0 reports
Source
NHTSA ODI
Federal complaints database
At or below the fleet median complaint volume.
| Component | Count |
|---|---|
| STRUCTURE:FRAME AND MEMBERS | 1 |
| VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL:ACCELERATOR PEDAL | 1 |
| FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:DELIVERY:HOSES, LINES/PIPING, AND FITTINGS | 1 |
THE FUEL LINE HAD LEAKED FUEL UNDER THE HOOD & HAD SPRAYED ON THE ENGINE. THE FUEL LINE HAD BEEN CHANGED 4 TIMES IN AT LEAST 3 YEARS.*AK
WHEN DRIVING THIS VEHICLE AT 35 MPH THE ACCELERATOR STICKS AND THE VEHICLE RUNS ON ITS OWN WITHOUT PRESSING THE GAS. DEALER HAS BEEN CONTACTED. THROTTLE CONTROL SENSOR REPLACED, PROBLEM FIXED. *AK *ML
DRIVING VEHICLE, HEARD NOISES IN FRONT WHEEL, SUPPORT K FRAME WAS SEPARATED AND NOT FASTENED. *AK
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 1984 Dodge 600; 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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