1990 Plymouth Acclaim problems
Owners have filed 70 complaints with NHTSA about the 1990 Plymouth Acclaim. Engine is the most reported problem area, at 23% of complaints. After that come air bags (20%) and transmission (10%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 70 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Engine 23% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 12 and 10
- Injuries and deaths
- 15 and 1
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: 12 complaints mention a crash; 10 complaints mention a fire; 15 injuries reported; 1 death reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 98% 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 Plymouth Acclaim with enough data (22 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.
While entering a left bend in a road the steering locked up. I had to apply a hard left jerk and was able to recover proper steering in time to avoid an accident. At the same time of recovery the air bag light come on. Soon after, I found that the horn and speed control did not operate. It was found that the c/spring, mfg. Part number 5252468, costing 167.00 plus 13.78 tax, failed internally.
July 2017 I was a passenger in my own vehicle and me and my driver were both wearing the seatbelts, that at impact released and he was ejected out of the door that had opened on impact and in the spin in the air was ejected out of the car, I hit my head on the dash, both seatbelts were faulty, it was difficult when putting them on to get them to grasp, you would have to repeatedly and with alot of force over and over again until it would grab, we both had gotten the seat belts to engage but on impact they…
both the drivers and the passengers front seat belts did not work correctly, If i repeadely inserted the clasp in and out, eventually they would click, but then later they would release, when i was in a very bad car accident july 13 2017, both the driver of my vehicle and i both had our seatbelts on and clasped, and upon impact the belts released and the driver was ejected from the vehicle and i hit my head and was banged and tossed around the vehicle as it spun and rolled, and when it was over i was no longer in…