1990 Dodge Spirit problems
Owners have filed 82 complaints with NHTSA about the 1990 Dodge Spirit. Air bags is the most reported problem area, at 20% of complaints. Next are electrical system (18%) and transmission (16%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 82 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Air bags 20% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 7 and 11
- Injuries and deaths
- 11 and 0
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
What the data shows
Safety-related details: 7 complaints mention a crash; 11 complaints mention a fire; 11 injuries reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 94% of model years in our database.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 1990 ranks 6th most-complained-about out of 6 model years of the Dodge Spirit with enough data (24 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 1 safety recall campaign.
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
Consumer hit a patch of ice and lost control and hit a tree, air bags did not deploy, causing consumer to be injured.
Consumer was involved in a rearend collision and the driver's and passenger's side seat back broke to the reclining postion, causing injuries to the occupant.
While driving on a secondary road going 40 MPH and without any advanced warning driver's side airbag deployed. Deployment caused consumer into a ditch, and resulted in minor face injuries to consumer. Airbag deployed on its own without any type of impact on the vehicle prior to deployment.