Recall Register

Plymouth Colt: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 4 recall campaigns for the Plymouth Colt, model years 1986 to 1994. NHTSA has 137 complaints on file for this model line. 2 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. 19861
  2. 19871
  3. 19881
  4. 19890
  5. 19901
  6. 19911
  7. 19923
  8. 19933
  9. 19941
Plymouth Colt: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1994 Plymouth Colt NHTSA page100%6,198
1993 Plymouth Colt371466%76,198
1992 Plymouth Colt31385%76,198
1991 Plymouth Colt NHTSA page1746%920,000
1990 Plymouth Colt NHTSA page1959%920,000
1989 Plymouth Colt NHTSA page01172%
1988 Plymouth Colt NHTSA page11492%920,000
1987 Plymouth Colt NHTSA page1533%920,000
1986 Plymouth Colt NHTSA page1746%920,000

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

156 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 Colt: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Seat Belts762.8119
Power Train51.38
Electrical System44.97
Engine and Engine Cooling38.56
Exterior Lighting19.23
Seats19.23
Structure12.82
Fuel System, Gasoline6.41
Service Brakes, Hydraulic6.41
Vehicle Speed Control6.41

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Plymouth Colt, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1997, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Plymouth Colt, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1996, with 42 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Plymouth: all 30 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Plymouth Colt: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/plymouth/colt/. 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 Colt model years have the most recall campaigns?
1993 with 3, 1992 with 3, 1994 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Plymouth Colt model year has the most complaints?
The 1993 model year, with 71 of the 137 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Plymouth Colt name?
Seat Belts: 762.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 51.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 44.9 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Plymouth Colt?
5 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.