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2016 Dodge Journey seats problems

36 complaints about seats have been filed for the 2016 Dodge Journey, which is 6% of all its NHTSA complaints.

At a glance

Complaints
36 6% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage
68,000 miles 14 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
1 and 0
Injuries and deaths
4 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When seats problems show up

Seats complaints by mileage, 2016 Dodge Journey Complaints by odometer reading in 20,000-mile steps. The median is about 68,000 miles. 0k to 20k miles: 0 complaints 20k to 40k miles: 1 complaints 40k to 60k miles: 5 complaints 60k to 80k miles: 4 complaints 80k to 100k miles: 2 complaints 100k to 120k miles: 0 complaints 120k to 140k miles: 1 complaints 140k to 160k miles: 1 complaints 160k to 180k miles: 0 complaints 180k to 200k miles: 0 complaints 200k+ miles: 0 complaints 040k80k120k160k200k miles Typical: 68,000 miles
Based on 14 complaints that include mileage. 43% were reported before 60,000 miles. The amber marker shows the median: half of these complaints happened before that mileage.
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MileageComplaints
0k to 20k miles0
20k to 40k miles1
40k to 60k miles5
60k to 80k miles4
80k to 100k miles2
100k to 120k miles0
120k to 140k miles1
140k to 160k miles1
160k to 180k miles0
180k to 200k miles0
200k+ miles0

What the data shows

Of the 14 seats complaints that report mileage, the median is about 68,000 miles, and 43% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 1 crash, 4 injuries.

What owners wrote

After being rear ended at a stopped position and pushed into another stopped vehicle in front, thus causing a double collision, the driver seat headrest completely ejected from driver seat. Driver seat adjustment bar caused deep tissue damage to legs. Third row seat split and separated seat surface from back support. Incident took place at a redlight for a left-turn lane from the highway to an intersecting road. Vehicle was struck by a minivan still maintaining full highway speed of at least 55 MPH.

Reported at 28,000 miles, September 2017 CrashInjury

While drive the headrest just deployed. Threw my boyfriends head forwarded. No bumps or accidents it just pop apart and threw him forward.

Reported at 41,000 miles, May 2019

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