Total Complaints
3 filings
DODGE B150 · model year
3 NHTSA complaints for this specific cohort.
NHTSA overall rating
Not crash-tested
New Car Assessment Program
The 1984DODGEB150 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.
Component-level analysis is where model-year complaints become actionable: the top complaint category for the 1984 B150 is service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:disc:caliper with 1 filings, followed by service brakes, hydraulic:foundation components:disc:rotor (1) and service brakes, hydraulic (1). Concentration in one or two component groups is the classic signature of a systemic defect; a flat distribution usually reflects normal aging, warranty complaints, or isolated build-plant variability.
NHTSA currently has 20 investigation files overlapping the 1984 B150, and 1 remain open. Owners comparing this cohort against neighboring years should pair the counters above with the complaint-by-year trend on the parent model page — a spike in a single year often tracks to a platform refresh, a new transmission supplier, or an updated ECU calibration. Use the related-complaint feed below to read raw owner narratives before deciding whether any pattern here affects your specific use case.
Total Complaints
3 filings
Crashes Reported
0 reports
Source
NHTSA ODI
Federal complaints database
At or below the fleet median complaint volume.
| Component | Count |
|---|---|
| SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DISC:CALIPER | 1 |
| SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DISC:ROTOR | 1 |
| SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC | 1 |
RIGHT FRONT MOUNTING CLIP PINCHES OFF THE RIGHT FRONT BRAKE HOSE, PROHIBITING BRAKE FLUID FROM RETURNING FROM THE CALIPER TO THE MASTER CYLINDER. THIS CONDITION CAUSES RIGHT FRONT BRAKES TO PULL WHEN CALIPERS LOCK UP. BRAKE CALIPERS AND ROTORS DAMAGED, HAD TO BE REPLACED AS A RESULT OF THIS PROBLEM.(1ST VEHICLE ON DOCUMENT 607866)
CALIPERS FAILED, PULLING VEHICLE TO THE RIGHT, 2ND VEHICLE ON 603400.
ROTORS FAILED.
Data as of 2025. 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.
Read our methodology — how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.