Model years Chrysler Town AND Country
2012 Chrysler Town AND Country
This year drew an ordinary 634 complaints for a Chrysler Town AND Country — the model's median is 382. What they were about is the unusual part: 12.1% of them mention tipm, against 3.1% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 634 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 382 |
| Involving a crash | 7 |
| Involving a fire | 16 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 20 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- tipm — 12.1% of this year's complaints, against 3.1% across the model's other years (3.9×). Owners wrote it as: tipm, fuel pump, fuse, crank.
- spot — 13.6% of this year's complaints, against 5% across the model's other years (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: spot, blind, blind spot, sensors.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
WE RECENTLY PURCHASED OUR VAN AND WERE VERY EXCITED TO GET OUR SECOND TOWN AND COUNTRY. WE REALLY LIKED THE IDEA OF HAVING THE BLIND SPOT DETECTION SYSTEM. A FEW WEEKS INTO OWNING THE VAN WE STARTED GETTING A WARNING ABOUT THE BLIND SPOT SYSTEM NOT BEING AVAIL…
BLIND SPOT DETECTION SYSTEM STOPPED WORKING. WARNING LIGHTS IN MIRRORS ARE ALWAYS LIT.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 14V234000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 12V141000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 11V487000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 12V191000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 25V876000 EQUIPMENT ADAPTIVE/MOBILITY Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Chrysler Town AND Country was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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