2014 Chrysler 200
This year drew an ordinary 192 complaints for a Chrysler 200 — the model's median is 342. What they were about is the unusual part: 16.7% of them mention deployed, against 5.2% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 192 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 342 |
| Involving a crash | 15 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 22 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- deployed — 16.7% of this year's complaints, against 5.2% across the model's other years (3.2×). Owners wrote it as: deployed, head, headrest, head rest.
- takata — 10.9% of this year's complaints, against 2.9% across the model's other years (3.7×). Owners wrote it as: takata, takata recall, recall airbag, dealing.
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
The passenger headrest deployed without being in a crash. The car was parked. This could have caused injury if my passenger had her head rested. It also could have caused an accident if this happened while driving as it sounded like a gun shot or loud crash. N…
WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 43 MPH, THE DRIVE SIDE HEADREST DEPLOYED WITHOUT WARNING. THE CONTACT WAS HIT IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD HOWEVER, NO MEDICAL ATTENTION WAS REQUIRED AT THIS TIME. THE CONTACT STATED THAT HE WAS ABLE TO STOP ON THE SIDE OF THE ROADWAY AN…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 16V668000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Chrysler 200 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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