Recall Register

Dodge Shadow: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 11 recall campaigns for the Dodge Shadow, model years 1985 to 1999. NHTSA has 466 complaints on file for this model line. 8 of the 14 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19851
  2. 19861
  3. 19872
  4. 19882
  5. 19892
  6. 19901
  7. 19915
  8. 19924
  9. 19931
  10. 19941
  11. 19950
  12. 19970
  13. 19980
  14. 19990
Dodge Shadow: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1999 Dodge Shadow NHTSA page013%
1998 Dodge Shadow NHTSA page013%
1997 Dodge Shadow NHTSA page026%
1995 Dodge Shadow NHTSA page013%
1994 Dodge Shadow194282%227,283
1993 Dodge Shadow1107321%227,283
1992 Dodge Shadow473219%1,070,283
1991 Dodge Shadow589267%1,068,681
1990 Dodge Shadow140120%634,000
1989 Dodge Shadow23399%749,000
1988 Dodge Shadow21236%121,500
1987 Dodge Shadow21236%581,550
1986 Dodge Shadow NHTSA page113%580,000
1985 Dodge Shadow NHTSA page100%580,000

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

598 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Dodge Shadow: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine and Engine Cooling120.472
Seats113.768
Air Bags11267
Power Train98.759
Electrical System8752
Structure65.239
Seat Belts55.233
Suspension53.532
Steering48.529
Service Brakes, Hydraulic48.529

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Dodge Shadow, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1990, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Dodge Shadow, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1995, with 127 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Dodge: all 118 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Dodge Shadow: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/dodge/shadow/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
15 May 2019
Manufacturer in the recall file
CHRYSLER CORPORATION

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Dodge Shadow model years have the most recall campaigns?
1991 with 5, 1992 with 4, 1989 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Dodge Shadow model year has the most complaints?
The 1993 model year, with 107 of the 466 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Dodge Shadow name?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 120.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Seats: 113.7 per 1,000 component mentions. Air Bags: 112 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Dodge Shadow?
12 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.