Owner-reported complaints naming the brake system, filed with NHTSA
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Reports naming service brakes, the antilock braking system, brake hoses, master cylinders or the parking brake. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 1993 Dodge Shadow submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 10 reports on file name it.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
Shown in the owner’s own words, exactly as filed
THROTTLE STUCK OPEN, ATTEMPTED TO STOP VEHICLE. A TREE STOPPED THE VEHICLE AND ENGINE CONTINUED TO REV HIGH. BRAKES CAUGHT ON FIRE AS A RESULT OF TRYING TO STOP VEHICLE. *AK
REAR AXLE CONTINUALLY BREAKS. MJS
NO SUMMARY
EMERGENCY PARKING BRAKE RELEASED CAUSING VEHICLE TO ROLL.
ACCELERATOR STUCK WHILE DRIVING AT (55) MPH, TRIED APPLYING BRAKES, PUNCHED GAS PEDAL, ALSO TRIED BRAKING, PUT ON EMGERGENCY BRAKE AND PUT IN PARK TO STOP. *AK
WHEN APPLYING BRAKES THEY GRIND VERY BADLY/LOUDLY, AFRAID THEY WILL NOT STOP AT SOME POINT. *AK
BRAKE MASTER CYLINDER FAILURE, MASTER CYLINDER HAS BEEN REPLACED TWICE, BRAKE PEDAL GOES TO THE FLOOR. TT
THE CAR HAS ABS BRAKING SYSTEM. THE VEHICLE WILL NOT STOP WHEN ENGAGED AND WHEN THE ROAD IS SLICK. PLEASE DESCRIBE. TT
WHEN SITTING AT A STOP SIGN THE BRAKE PEDAL GOES TO THE FLOOR HAVE ABS ANTI-LOCK BRAKE . TT
ATTEMPTED TO BRAKE, PEDAL WENT TO THE FLOOR, HAD AN ACCIDENT. TT
Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.
Categories with enough reports to have a page of their own
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