Consumer Complaint Detail
PLYMOUTH / GRAND VOYAGER / 1993

0 Injured

0 Death

No Fire
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NHTSA Complaint Number: 999090426 | Incident Date: Jun, 23 1999 |
Consumer's City: SAN DIEGO | Consumer's State: CA |
Vehicle Transmission Type: | Manufacturers Name: Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) |
Model Name: GRAND VOYAGER | Model Year: 1993 |
Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No | Component's Description: Fuel system, gasoline:delivery |
Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No | Persons Injured: 0 |
Vehicle's VIN#: 1P4GH4435PX | Date added to File: May, 23 2021 |
Date Complaint Received: Sep, 21 1999 | Complaint Type: IVOQ |
Incident Reported To Police: No | Purchase Date: Oct, 31 1994 |
Was Original Owner: No | Anti-lock Brakes: No |
Number of Cylinders: 0 | Date of Manufacturer: - |
Was Vehicle Towed: - | Description of the Complaints: After leaving san diego 06/24/1999 in route to phoenix az. my family and i had 5 highspeed engine shutdowns at 70 plus mph. causing braking and steering failure.after several attempts of restarting engine it would restart after approximitaly 5 minutes. the weather was hot at about 110 and this accured at about 3:pm . we finally made it to our destination and spent the night. next morning took van to independent repair facility and they could not reproduce stalling. they mentioned vapor lock ? kept traveling to next destination which was going to be in new mexico and highspeed stalling accured again between phoenix and flagstaff.returned to phoenix and went to plymouth dealership { petre dealership}.they ran several tests and thought it was the o2 sensor and dirty throttle plates. 480$ later back on road heading for flagstaff az. highspeed shutdown again about 60 to 80 miles into trip.decided to try to make it to flagstaff az. and experienced one more shut down before arriving. next morning took van to flagstaff dealership for further diagnoses but could not get van in untill next day because of volume of business. said most likely cause was malfunctioning fuel pump after showing him the repair work from phoenix. advised keeping fuel tank full and proceed to next distination of albuquerque n.m.. took advise because we were on time schedule and made it to within 20 miles of destination and van did another highspeed shutdown on downgrade almost causing loss of control . stayed night in albuquerque nm and found dealership {zangara dodge ) open on sat. gave history of events and they replaced fuelpump and fuel pump harness. no other shutdowns accured on rest of trip to illinois and back to california. |