1994 Plymouth Sundance problems
NHTSA has received 70 complaints about the 1994 Plymouth Sundance, and 11% of them involve brakes. Next are air bags (10%) and seats (10%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 70 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Brakes 11% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 16 and 5
- Injuries and deaths
- 6 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: 16 complaints mention a crash; 5 complaints mention a fire; 6 injuries reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 93% 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 1994 ranks 2nd most-complained-about out of 5 model years of the Plymouth Sundance with enough data (44 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.
Owner's daughter's finger was caught in the passenger's side automatic seatbelt retractor, and mangled her finger. Manufacturer said that that it had nothing to do with the design of the vehicle.
There is reoccurring smoke and fires coming from the rear of the vehicle near the speakers. The fires has happened twice due to electrical wiring. Dealer has seen vehicle.
Vehicle was parked, emergency brakes on, unoccupied approximately 3 minutes, emergency brakes released on their own, vehicle rolled backwards down incline, hit a tree, owner engaged brakes again after moving vehicle, brakes released again on their own.
Vehicle shut off, and will not restart while driving. Dealership has unplugged and replugged the computer chip, ran a diagnostic test, and checked the sensors, every thing was okay. A month later and on 3 separate occasions the failure recurred.