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all vehicles · every Town and Country year · method

Chrysler Town and Country 2008

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

2.09 per 1,000

2.7 times this nameplate’s own median · from 248 complaints filed in the first three years, of 1937 ever. 95% lower bound 1.83.

Against its own model years

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

Model yearPer 1,000Complaints
20082.09248
20090.5152
20101.51149
20110.7779
20120.7981
20132.60304
20141.21158
20150.3743
20160.6751

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 1241 complaints

notification campaign55544%
unavailable52442%
reasonable51141%
air bags43535%
bags43535%
repair unavailable40332%

Air Bags 375 complaints

campaign31283%
system29779%
electrical29578%
electrical system29378%
bags electrical26771%
system however21958%

Service Brakes 318 complaints

rotors17052%
pads14244%
van8526%
pads rotors6721%
brakes rotors5016%
replace front248%

When it breaks

21% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 70,000 miles, from 1250 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

2 investigations covering this model year, 1 of which list a recall campaign. Owners had filed 46 complaints about this component over roughly 39 months before an investigation opened.

Totally Integrated Power Module Failure

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:

10212020 · 10214166 · 10214312 · 10222388 · 10226654 · 10227258

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.