Chrysler 300 2008

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

0.40 per 1,000

0.8 times this nameplate’s own median · from 25 complaints filed in the first three years, of 727 ever. 95% lower bound 0.24.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model year	Per 1,000	Complaints
2008	0.40	25
2009	0.16	8
2010	0.29	11
2011	0.84	31
2012	0.93	50
2013	1.87	120
2014	2.11	117
2015	0.49	26
2016	0.32	17
2017	0.27	14
2018	0.69	34
2019	0.40	15

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Electrical System 506 complaints

campaign	389	76%
electrical system	386	76%
notification campaign	298	59%
reasonable	286	56%
unavailable exceeded	217	43%
numbers	99	20%

Air Bags 186 complaints

electrical	96	52%
electrical system	94	51%
numbers	77	41%
campaign numbers	75	40%
system air	59	32%
numbers electrical	53	29%

Engine 54 complaints

electrical system	16	30%
campaign electrical	11	21%

When it breaks

13% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 76,000 miles, from 378 complaints that recorded one).

Failures arrive late and spread out, which looks like wear. Service history matters more than model year here.

What NHTSA did

1 investigation covering this model year, 0 of which list a recall campaign.

Desiccated Air Bag Inflator Rupture

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

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Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is automated checks only, not verified against an external source.