Recall Register

Plymouth Neon: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 14 recall campaigns for the Plymouth Neon, model years 1994 to 2001. NHTSA has 1,372 complaints on file for this model line. 7 of the 8 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. 19940
  2. 19956
  3. 19962
  4. 19971
  5. 19981
  6. 19990
  7. 20005
  8. 20012
Plymouth Neon: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2001 Plymouth Neon24929%1,564,756
2000 Plymouth Neon514182%1,828,988
1999 Plymouth Neon06236%
1998 Plymouth Neon116797%3,683
1997 Plymouth Neon116194%125,000
1996 Plymouth Neon2308180%166,800
1995 Plymouth Neon6481280%723,700
1994 Plymouth Neon NHTSA page032%

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

2,016 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 Neon: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine and Engine Cooling308.5622
Service Brakes, Hydraulic113.1228
Electrical System84.3170
Air Bags83.8169
Steering59119
Power Train56.5114
Unknown or Other40.281
Structure37.275
Vehicle Speed Control30.361
Suspension29.359

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Plymouth Neon, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1994, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the Plymouth Neon, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2001, with 216 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Plymouth: all 30 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Plymouth Neon: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/plymouth/neon/. 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
30 Sep 2026
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 Neon model years have the most recall campaigns?
1995 with 6, 2000 with 5, 2001 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Plymouth Neon model year has the most complaints?
The 1995 model year, with 481 of the 1,372 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Plymouth Neon name?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 308.5 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 113.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 84.3 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Plymouth Neon?
10 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.