Owners of Chrysler and Dodge 2005 model year minivans need to immediately contact their dealer and refrain from utilizing the vehicle until this problem has been resolved, says Alabama liability attorney Keith T. Belt .

The N.H.T.S.A. agency has upgraded its investigation into headlights that fail intermittently on 622,000 Chrysler Town & Country and Dodge Grand Caravan minivans from the 2005 model year.

The agency said it had received 146 consumer complaints, while Chrysler admitted to almost 1,400 complaints in addition to about 14,000 warranty repairs. According to the report, the failures might occur several weeks apart and that replacing the headlight switch or control module would not always cure the problem. Toggling the headlight switch, however, occasionally restores functionality to the headlights and high beams. Chrysler told the agency that it was aware of two crashes in which the drivers said the headlights failed. In one case, the minivan then hit a deer. In the other accident, the minivan went into a ditch resulting in a minor injury.

This is the second time the agency has investigated such headlight problems on Chrysler minivans. The previous investigation covered about 813,000 Chrysler and Dodge minivans from the 2001–2 model years. The agency ended that investigation, saying while there were many complaints, “a safety-related defect has not been identified at this time.”

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