17V640000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:SENSOR/CONTROL MODULE-INACTIVE
If the active headrests do not deploy in certain rear-end crashes, the front seat occupants have an increased risk of injury.
2012 DODGE AVENGER
3 safety recall campaigns, 1 defect investigation, 837 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns3
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations1
Owner complaints837
Complaints citing a crash61
Complaints citing a fire17
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 3 of 3
16V668000
AIR BAGS
If the frontal air bags, seat belt pretensioners, and side air bags are disabled, there is an increased risk of injury to the vehicle occupants in the event of a vehicle crash that necessitates deployment of these safety systems.
13V282000
AIR BAGS
In the event of a crash necessitating the deployment of the active head restraints , their non-deployment could increase the risk of injury.
What owners report most
- 163UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 108AIR BAGS
- 107ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 95VISIBILITY/WIPER
- 86ENGINE
- 42SEAT BELTS
- 30POWER TRAIN
- 25ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC)
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2012 DODGE AVENGERs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.