Owner-reported complaints naming the powertrain system, filed with NHTSA
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Powertrain reports that are not specifically the engine or transmission — driveshafts, axles, transfer cases and differentials. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 1999 Plymouth Voyager submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 8 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
HEARD A LOUD BLAST, VAN WENT UP IN THE AIR OFF THE ROAD. TOUCHED BACK DOWN ON THE ROAD I WAS ALL OVER THE ROAD. HAD NO BRAKE, NO POWER STEERING AND NO PARK. *BF THE TRANSMISSION FAILED. *SC
WHILE DRIVING AND WITHOUT WARNING, THE TRANSMISSION LOCKED AND HAD BECOME DIFFICULT TO CONTROL. *NLM SCC
THE VEHICLE DID NOT ENGAGE INTO DRIVE OR REVERSE. THERE WAS A CLUNK SOUND AS THE VEHICLE WAS DRIVEN. *SCC *JB *TT
CONSUMER STATED THE TRANSMISSIONS DIFFERENTIAL BLEW CAUSING IT TO COME RIGHT THROUGH THE SIDE OF THE TRANSAXLE CASE, THIS INCIDENT OCCURED WHILE DRIVING ON A LOCAL HIGHWAY, THERE WAS AN EXTREMELY LOUD NOISE THAT CAME FROM UNDER THE VAN AS IT SHOOK FORCEFULLY, THEN THERE WAS AN OIL SUBSTANCE THAT COVERED THE WINDSHIELD, CONSUMER IS REQUESTING REIMBURSEMENT FROM THE MANUFACTURER STATING THIS IS A POSSIBLE DEFECT.*JB
DIFFERENTIAL CAME APART AND KNOCKED A WHOLE IN TRANSFER CASE, CAUSING CAR TO STALL AND DIE AT 70 MPH. *AK
FAILURE OF THIS PART CAUSED THE VEHICLE TO VIOLENTLY SHIFT TO 1ST GEAR AT 45 MPH. THE SPEEDOMETER AND ODOMETER DID NOT READ. VEHICLE HAD TO BE TOWED. DEALER STATED THAT THIS PART SHOULD NOT HAVE FAILED ON SUCH A NEW VEHICLE. I PURCAHSED AN EXTENDED WARRANTY, WHICH COVERS POWERTRAIN, ELECTRICAL AND STANDARD INSTRUMENT CLUSTER, BUT WAS TOLD THAT THIS SENSOR WAS NOT COVERED, EVENTHOUGH IT CONTROLS THE INSTRUMENT CLUSTER. I PAID $130 FOR REPAIR. IF THIS HAD HAPPENED IN TRAFFIC OR AT HIGHWAY SPEED I SHUDDER TO THINK HOW THE VEHICLE WOULD HAVE REACTED, SINCE THE SUDDEN, UNEXPECTED DOWNSHIFT CAUSED THE VEHICLE TO LURCH FORWARD VIOLENTLY. THE DEALER'S SERVICE REP SAID THAT THIS PART DID NOT USUALLY FAIL, BUT THAT IN THE PAST MONTH THEY HAD REPLACED MORE THAN USUAL. I HAVE ONLY HAD THIS VEHICLE FOR 7 MONTHS AND IT HAS ALREADY LEFT ME STRANDED. OVERALL, MY DEALER AND SERVICE REP WERE VERY POLITE AND FRIENDLY. PLEASE LET ME KNOW YOUR EXPERT OPINION ABOUT THIS INCIDENT.
WHEN PLACING VEHICLE FROM PARK TO REVERSE OR FROM PARK TO DRIVE VEHICLE CAN BE PLACED OUT OF GEAR WITHOUT FOOT DEPRESSED ON THE BRAKE PEDAL. CONSUMER HAS CONTACTED THE DEALER, DEALER LINKED THE PROBLEM TO THE DRIVESHAFT OR AN ELECTRICAL PROBLEM. CONSUMER HAD PROBLEMS WITH THE PASSENGER SIDE SEAT BELT WHICH HAD TOO MUCH SLACK. PLEASE PROVIDE ANY FURTHER DETAILS. *AK
THIS VEHICLE CAN BE PUT INTO GEAR WITHOUT PRESSING ON BRAKE. ISN'T THIS A REQUIRED SAFETY FEATURE OF NEW VEHICLES?
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.
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