Recall Register

Dodge Stratus: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 27 recall campaigns for the Dodge Stratus, model years 1992 to 2007. NHTSA has 2,627 complaints on file for this model line. 12 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. 19920
  2. 19957
  3. 19967
  4. 19974
  5. 19983
  6. 19993
  7. 20005
  8. 200110
  9. 20022
  10. 20032
  11. 20043
  12. 20053
  13. 20060
  14. 20070
Dodge Stratus: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2007 Dodge Stratus NHTSA page021%
2006 Dodge Stratus06736%
2005 Dodge Stratus35931%477,796
2004 Dodge Stratus313672%457,461
2003 Dodge Stratus27138%449,353
2002 Dodge Stratus215080%459,757
2001 Dodge Stratus1018599%1,711,794
2000 Dodge Stratus5216115%1,448,493
1999 Dodge Stratus3248132%2,898,575
1998 Dodge Stratus3272145%3,367,276
1997 Dodge Stratus4348185%3,818,768
1996 Dodge Stratus7554295%4,100,568
1995 Dodge Stratus7318169%3,973,112
1992 Dodge Stratus NHTSA page011%

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

3,570 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 Stratus: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine and Engine Cooling286.31,022
Service Brakes, Hydraulic108.7388
Power Train86307
Steering84300
Suspension79.6284
Electrical System73.1261
Air Bags55.5198
Vehicle Speed Control31.1111
Fuel System, Gasoline24.688
Visibility23.283

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Dodge Stratus, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2000, with 9 campaigns.
Complaints about the Dodge Stratus, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2000, with 305 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Dodge: all 118 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Dodge Stratus: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/dodge/stratus/. 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
DAIMLERCHRYSLER 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 Stratus model years have the most recall campaigns?
2001 with 10, 1996 with 7, 1995 with 7. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Dodge Stratus model year has the most complaints?
The 1996 model year, with 554 of the 2,627 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Dodge Stratus name?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 286.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 108.7 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 86 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Dodge Stratus?
8 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.