2015 Dodge Durango defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2015 Dodge Durango. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• Seat Belt Retraction
  Preliminary Evaluation PE19011 · opened Sep 16, 2019 · closed May 3, 2021

  The Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) opened this Preliminary Evaluation to investigate complaints alleging improper retraction of the front seat belts (driver or passenger) due to the plastic guide of the D-ring cracking in model year (MY) 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee vehicles. The purpose of the investigation was to …

• Active Head Rest Inadvertent Deployment
  Preliminary Evaluation PE19014 · opened Sep 9, 2019 · closed Feb 25, 2026

  The Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) opened PE19014 on September 9, 2019, to investigate 128 consumer complaints alleging that the Active Head Rest (AHR) inadvertently deployed without the occurrence of a crash or other rear impact event in model year (MY) 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee and Dodge Durango vehicles.When O…

• Vehicle Rollaway
  Preliminary Evaluation PE16014 · opened Dec 16, 2016 · closed Jan 25, 2024

  Basis – On December 16, 2016, the Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) opened Preliminary Evaluation PE16-014 to investigate 43 vehicle rollaway incidents with operators alleging they had shifted to Park and then exited the vehicle prior to the rollway incidents. These complaints involved multiple Fiat Chrysler Automo…

• Software security vulnerability
  Recall Query RQ15004 · opened Jul 24, 2015 · closed Jan 5, 2016 · led to recall 15V508000

  On July 23, 2015, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) launched Safety Recall 15V-461 to remedy security vulnerabilities in approximately 1.4 million model year (MY) 2013 through 2015 vehicles equipped with Uconnect head units (HU) 8.4A (RA3 radio) and 8.4AN (RA4 radio) manufactured by Harman International.On July 24, 2015,…