1999 Dodge Dakota defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 1999 Dodge Dakota. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• UPPER BALL JOINT SEPARATION
  Engineering Analysis EA03023 · opened Nov 19, 2003 · closed Feb 11, 2005 · led to recall 04V596000

  Daimlerchrysler corporation (dcc) is recalling the target population of approximately 600,000 my 2000 through 2003 durango and dakota vehicles with four-wheel drive to replace the front suspension upper ball joints with redesigned parts that do not have the joint integrity concerns and have substantially improved joint…