Recall Register

Plymouth Acclaim: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 6 recall campaigns for the Plymouth Acclaim, model years 1988 to 1996. NHTSA has 419 complaints on file for this model line. 7 of the 9 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. 19880
  2. 19891
  3. 19901
  4. 19913
  5. 19921
  6. 19930
  7. 19941
  8. 19950
  9. 19960
Plymouth Acclaim: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1996 Plymouth Acclaim NHTSA page012%
1995 Plymouth Acclaim02860%
1994 Plymouth Acclaim169148%200
1993 Plymouth Acclaim071153%
1992 Plymouth Acclaim163135%20,000
1991 Plymouth Acclaim396206%148,398
1990 Plymouth Acclaim157122%634,000
1989 Plymouth Acclaim13371%634,000
1988 Plymouth Acclaim NHTSA page012%

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

529 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.

Plymouth Acclaim: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine and Engine Cooling15582
Power Train13873
Suspension122.965
Air Bags115.361
Electrical System81.343
Vehicle Speed Control54.829
Seat Belts54.829
Service Brakes, Hydraulic37.820
Steering35.919
Exterior Lighting32.117

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Plymouth Acclaim, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1990, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Plymouth Acclaim, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1995, with 101 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Plymouth: all 30 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Plymouth Acclaim: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/plymouth/acclaim/. 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
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
29 Mar 2018
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 Plymouth Acclaim model years have the most recall campaigns?
1991 with 3, 1994 with 1, 1992 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Plymouth Acclaim model year has the most complaints?
The 1991 model year, with 96 of the 419 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Plymouth Acclaim name?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 155 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 138 per 1,000 component mentions. Suspension: 122.9 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Plymouth Acclaim?
5 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.