- The problem
- Vehicle description: passenger vehicles. The dash panel pad can shift interferring with the throttle cable control.
- The risk
- The throttle cable control would not return to idle increasing the risk of a vehicle crash.
- The fix
- Dealers will remove a portion of the dash panel pad so it cannot interfere with the throttle cable control.
Acceleration & cruise control
1998 Dodge Avenger Acceleration problems
Owners have filed 3 complaints about the 1998 Dodge Avenger's acceleration & cruise control with NHTSA - 5% of all its complaints, most recently on May 20, 2002. They describe 3 crashes, 0 fires and 4 injuries. Unintended acceleration, surging, throttle problems and cruise or adaptive cruise faults.
- Complaints
- 3
- Recalls
- 1
- Crashes
- 3
- Fires
- 0
- Injuries
- 4
- Deaths
- 0
Acceleration recalls for the 1998 Dodge Avenger
Acceleration complaints
While parking vehicle accelerated. It jumped the curve, and ran into a brake wall.*Ak
On the evening of 12/24/98 my son lost control of the vehicle while negotiating a turn. The vehicle failed to slow down. We discovered that this car was subject to a recall that we were not informed of. Not surprisingly, chrysler informed us that the recall situation had nothing to do with causing an accident. After striking a telephone pole head on neither air bag deployed. Chrysler also denied any fault in this. If it is not the fault of the manufacturer, then who? This complaint was initially filed with...
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nhtsa on 12/26/98. I am still waiting for some sort of action from nhtsa. A passive restraint system that fails to protect vehicle occupants must surely result in a recall of vehicles with defective systems. The vehicle in in the custody of chrysler. We will not accept repair and return of this unsafe vehicle !!!
Thank you very much for your site. Thanks to your information we now know that our car was subject to a recall that evidently caused an accident. We have never been notified of a recall and are very much concerned about the air bags not actuating. The vehicle struck a telephone pole head on after failing to reduce speed while negotiating a turn. Fortunately, my son and his friend were wearing seatbelts. What a merry christmas this has turned out to be.
Dodge Avenger acceleration complaints by year
Avenger acceleration problems, every yearSource: U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) complaints and recalls, checked . Complaints are owners' own reports and are not verified. How we use the data