2001 Chrysler Sebring complaints

CONSUMER STATES THAT WHILE DRIVING AT 30 MPH THE CONSUMER HIT A POT HOLE IN THE ROAD AND WITH OUT ANY WARNING THE TWO FRONT AIR BAGS DEPLOYED, THE PASSENGER SIDE AIR BAG WENT THROUGHT THE WINDSHIELD GLASS. MR

CONSUMER STATES BRAKE AND GAS PEDAL POSITIONS ARE TOO CLOSE. ON 10/01/02 CONSUMER WAS AT A RED LIGHT AND UNBEKNOWNST THE CONSUMER'S FOOT WAS ON BOTH THE ACCELERATOR AND BRAKE PEDALS. THE VEHICLE ROLLED FORWARD AND A MINOR COLLISON OCCURRED. NLM

CONSUMER STATES WHILE DRIVING AT 40 MPH THE CONSUMER RAN OFF THE ROAD AND FLIPPED THE VEHICLE SEVERAL TIMES AND NONE OF THE FRONT OR REAR AIR BAGS DEPLOYED. CONTACTED DEALER. PLEASE PROVIDE FURTHER INFORMATION.*JB

INTERMITTENTLY VEHICLE WOULD ACCELERATE WHEN BRAKES WER APPLIED. VEHICLE BEEN TO DEALER ON TWO OCCASIONS, AND THEY WERE UNABLE TO DUPLICATE THE PROBLEM. FEEL FREE TO PROVIDE ANY FURTHER INFORMATION.*AK

CONSUMER HAD TAKEN VEHICLE TO DEALER SEVERAL TIMES DUE TO ERRATIC ENGINE BEHAVIOR, HOWEVER VEHICLE WAS NEVER CORRECTED, ON ONE OCCASION WHILE PULLING OUT OF A GARAGE, UP A RAMP, THE VEHICLE EXPERIENCED SUDDEN ACCELERATION, CAUSING IT TO JUMP A CURB, HIT A TREE AND THEN HIT ANOTHER VEHICLE, THERE WERE NO INJURIES. (SON WRITING IN ON BEHALF OF FATHER) *SLC

REAR SEATBELT WILL NOT STAY LOCKED AND IS CAUSING CHILD SEAT NOT TO STAY IN LOCKED POSITION. DEALER NOTIFIED.*AK

CONSUMER HAD BRAKE PROBLEMS FOR 9 MONTHS. BRAKES WERE VIBRATING EXCESSIVELY WHEN APPLIED. IN 06/01 AT 11000 MILES DEALER CUT ROTORS, REPLACED CALIPERS, AND BRAKE PADS. 2 MONTHS LATER, BRAKES WERE VIBRATING AGAIN. CONSUMER CAN NOT FULLY APPLY BRAKES. *AK

VEHICLE WAS INVOLVED IN A FRONTAL COLLISION OAT 40 MPH AND NEITHER AIR BAG DEPLOYED. DEALER AND MANUFACTURER WERE NOT NOTIFIED AT THIS TIME. FEEL FREE TO PROVIDE ANY FURTHER INFORMATION.*AK

IN HOT WEATHER CAR IDLES WAY TOO FAST AND IS DIFFICULT TO STOP. *AK

AT 50MPH, THE TIRE BLEWOUT DUE TO TREAD SEPARATION ON REAR DRIVERS SIDE. MICHELIN TIRE SIZE P20560H16, DOT UNKNOWN.*AK. CONSUMER STATED AS SHE WAS DRIVING, THERE WAS A NOISE, SHE PULLED OVER AND DISCOVERED THE TIRE HAD DISINTEGRATED.*JB

I HAVE HAD ELECTRICAL SYSTEM GO OUT TWICE WHILE DRIVING. THE TIRES WERE REPLACED AT 22,000 BECAUSE THEY WERE WORN OUT. STERING WHEEL VIBRATES TO THE POINT IT IS INOPERABLE.*AK

CONSUMER STATES THAT TWO OF THE WHEEL CENTER CAPS SEPARATED FROM THE WHEEL WHILE DRIVING. THE DEALER AND MANUFACTURER WERE NOTIFIED. *JB CONSUMER FOUND MANY COMPLAINTS RELATING TO THIS ONE AND DETERMINED THAT THIS CONDITION IS A MANUFACTURER DEFECT. ALSO, CONSUMER NOTICED A THIRD CAP IS LOOSE AND WILL PROBABLY FALL OFF SHORTLY. *TT

RADIO CD PLYER FAILED. *AK

CONSUMER STATES PER DEALERSHIP THERE WAS SIGNFICANT ELECTRICAL FAULTINESS TO IGNITE THE WIRING INSTALLATION AND IMMEDIATE COMBUSTIBLES INTO OPEN FLAME. VEHICLE WAS TOTALLED.*JB

REAR WINDOW IS LIKE LOOKING THROUGH A DISSORDED OF WATER, REPLACE REAR WINDOW, DID NOT FIX THE PROBLEM.

CONSUMER STATES THAT SHORTLY AFTER PURCHASING THE VEHICLE, THE TRANSMISSION EXHIBITED A WHINING NOISE, DEALER REPLACED WITH A NEW TRANSMISSION, BUT NEW TRANSMISSION SLIPS DURING TAKE OFF ASSOCIATED WITH HARD SHIFTING, JERKING AT 30 MPH, AND POOR ACCELERATION, DEALER TEST DROVE VEHICLE, BUT IS UNABLE TO FIND ANYTHING WRONG. *TT

LEASED NEW CAR FOR 6 MONTHS, HAD OIL AHCNGE AT 3,000 MILES, HAVE 5,000 MILES NOW. ENTIRE OIL LEAKED OUT OF THE ENGINE AND ENGINE STOPPED. CHRYSLER'S WARANTY WILL NOT COVER THE DAMAGE SINCE THE PLASTIC GUARD UNDER THE CAR WAS LITTTLE BROKEN MAYBE BY HITTING A POTHALL AND THEREFORE IS MY NEGLIGENCE. COST $2,500 TO FIX ENGINE.*AK

ALL FOUR RIMS ARE BENT DUE TO RUNNING OVER BUMPS. DEALER / MANUFACTURER WERE NOT NOTIFIED AT THIS TIME. *AK *SLC

DRIVER'S AIRBAG DID NOT DEPLOY IN FRONT END COLLISION.*AK

TRIED TO STOP APPROX. 1 MONTH AGO AND FIRST APPLIED BARKES, WENT TO FLOOR. I RELEASED THEM AND APPLIED THEM A SECOND TIME AND THEY STOPPED ME BUT TO AVOID A REAREND ACCIDENT, I VEERED MY CAR TO THE SHOULDER. I CONTACTED THE SERVICE DEPARTMENT OF TUPELO AUTO SALES THEY ASKED ME WHERE THE CAR WAS. I TOLD THEM THAT IT ONLY FAILED THE ONE TIME SO I WAS JUST CAUTIOUS AS I DROVE ON INTO WORK. THEY TOLD ME THAT IT WOULD BE HARD TO FIND UNTIL IT MESSED UP MORE OFTEN SO THEY COULD SEE THE PROBLEM. I HAD NO MORE PROBLEMS UNTIL DEC. 5TH ON MY WAY HOME FROM WORK..I STARTED HEARING A CLANKING SOUND THAT SOUNDED LIKE I WAS HAVING A FLAT TIRE SO I PULLED OVER TO CHECK. THE TIRES APPEARED TO BE FINE. I WAS ONLY A MILE OR SO FROM HOME SO I DROVE ON HOME. ONCE HOME, I INSPECTED THE UNDERSIDE OF THE CAR AND THE WHEELS BUT COULD NOT SEE ANYTHING DIFFERENT. THE FOLLOWING MORNING, WHEN I LEFT HOME, THE CAR SEEMED OK. ONCE I ARRIVED AT MY FIRST STOP SIGN WHICH IS AT THE BOTTOM OF A HILL, I APPLIED MY BRAKES AND AGAIN THEY WENT TO THE FLOOR. THE SECOND TIME I APPLIED THEM, THEY CAUGHT AND I STOPPED. I TURNED ONTO THE HIGHWAY AND TRAVELLED ABOUT 150 FEET AND THE FRONT (SEEMING) LOCKED UP SIMILAR TO THE WAY IT DOES WHEN YOU PLACE A CAR IN PARK AND CUT OFF THE KEY. I WAS HEADED TO THE RIGHT ONTO THE SOFT SHOULDER OF THE ROAD AND WAS FIGHTING THE CAR BECAUSE I WAS HEADED FOR THE DITCH AND AN ELECTRICAL GENERATOR ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD. THE STEERING OR BRAKES (?) BROKE LOOSE, SENDING ME INTO AN ONCOMING

SVC ENGINE COOLANT LIGHT COMES ON INDICATING ENGINE AND/OR EMISSION CONTROL SYSTEM MALFUNCTION. DEALER CAN NOT SAY WHY. LIGHT IS RESET (BY DISCO. BATTERY). DIAG CODE PROVIDES LITTLE TRBL ANALY. INFO. CAR SEEMS TO RUN/OPERATE NORMALLY, BUT TDICATE A MALFUNCTION IN EMISSIONS CONTROL SUBSYSTEM. GAS CAP IS SECURE AT TIME OF INDICATION. LIGHT DOES NOT RESET AUTOMATICALLY EVEN AFTER SEVERAL DAYS OF CONTINUED DRIVING. MUST DISCO. BATTERY TO CLEAR LIGHT. NO IDEA IF THIS IS FALSE INDICATION, INDICATION OF MINOR PROBLEM, OR INDICATION OF MORE SERIOUS PROBLEM.*AK

VEHICLE WAS PARKED TO LOWER CONVERTIBLE TOP, WHILE CONVERTIBLE TOP WAS BEING LOWERED REAR WINDOW HAD SHATTERED UNEXPECTEDLY. CONTACTED SERVICE MANAGER, AND WAS INFORMED THAT WINDOW WAS NOT COVERED UNDER WARRANTY. *AK

TRAVELING ON I 95 SOUTH IN THE CITY OF JACKSONVILLE FL - GAS PEDAL STUCK WHILE AT A SPEED OF 65 AND BEGAN INCREASING, IT WAS NECESSARY TO USE BRAKE WITH ALL THE FORCE THAT WAS POSSIBLE TO CONTROL THE CAR - IT WAS AT LEAST 2 MILES UNTIL WE COULD EXIT THE FREEWAY - THIS WAS DOWNTOWN AND IN AN AREA OF CONSTRUCTION OVER A NEW BRIDGE - THERE WAS NOT THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEAVE THE ROAD, PLACE THE CAR IN NEUTRAL OR DO ANYTHING BUT RIDE THE BRAKES UNTIL WE COULD EXIT, WEST SIDE DODGE IN JACKSONVILLE EXAMINED THE CAR THE MORNING OF 9/17 AND FOUND A PLASTIC CAP THAT WAS USED TO COVER A SENSOR HAD NOT BEEN DISCARDED AND HAD FOUND ITS' WAY TO THE LINKAGE. WE ARE ASKING THE DEALER HERE IN SOUTH CAROLINA TO REPLACE THE ROTERS AND PADS - IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE THAT I SHOULD BE CONCERNED WITH? THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND CONCERN. SUE AND JOE FEUTZ "FIGHTS"*AK

REAR TOE AND CAMBER OUT OF RANGE CAUSING THE VEHICLE TO PULL TO THE RIGHT. NLM

BRAKE PEDAL AND ACCELARATOR ARE DESIGN TO CLOSE, RESULTIN IN HITTING THE GAS PEDAL WHEN HITTING THE BRAKES.

THE GRAY COATING TO THE AIR BAG COVER STARTED PEELING TWO MONTHS AFTER I BOUGHT THE CAR. I BROUGHT IT IN TO GET FIXED AND THE DEALERSHIP REPLACED THE WRONG PART. THE PERSON WHO REPLACED THE WRONG PART DAMAGED THAT PART (STEERING WHEEL) AND THEY HAD TO REPLACE BOTH PARTS AGAIN. I FINALLY GOT BOTH PARTS REPLACED 8/01 AND THE AIR BAG STARTED PEELING AGAIN THREE WEEKS LATER. THERE IS AN OBVIOUS DEFECT IN THE MATERIAL.

STEERING RACK MAKES CLANKING/RATTLING NOISE WHEN TURNING OVER ROUGH PAVEMENT. CAN BE FELT THROUGH STEERING COLUMN. SERVICE TECHNICIANS AT DEALER HEARD NOISE BUT COULD NOT INITIALLY IDENTIFY IT. THEY DROVE 4 OTHER 2001 SEBRING SEDANS AND HEARD SAME NOISE. CONTACTED CHRYSLER AND WERE TOLD IT WAS STEERING RACK. I WROTE LETTER TO CHRYSLER AND WAS TOLD THAT NOISE IS A "CHARACTERISTIC OF THE CAR." I AM VERY CONCERNED SINCE STEERING IS INVOLVED. WOULD LIKE THIS PROBLEM FIXED AND NOT TOLD "THEY ALL DO IT."

WHEN WEATHER IS HOT VEHICLE STARTS MAKING A CREAKING NOISE. ALSO, IT SOUNDS AS THOUGH NOISE IS IN STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE.*AK CONSUMER STATES SOUND HAS BEEN PRESENT IN VEHICLE SINCE DAY ONE, DEALER HAS REPLACED THE FRONT AND REAR SWAY BAR LINK, BOTH BUSHINGS, LEFT BALL JOINT, STEERING GEAR, DIFFERENTIAL/TRANSAXLE, AND NOW DEALER FEELS THE PROBLEM IS WITH THE EXHAUST PIPE, WHILE DRIVING CONSUMER WOULD MAKE FREQUENT STOP AND GO MOTIONS WHICH WOULD MAKE THE NOISE EVEN WORSE, CONSUMER THINKS THE PROBLEM SEEMED TO BE EXPANDING STEEL WHEN VEHICLE WAS HOT, DEALER LISTENED TO THE NOISE THROUGH HEADPHONES AND STATED THE NOISE WAS NOT COMING FROM THE SUSPENSION, SINCE DEALER CAN NOT FIX PROBLEM, CONSUMER HAS DECIDED TO GO THROUGH ARBITRATION. WHEN AIR CONDITIONER IS ON A LOUD HUMMING NOISE CAN BE HEARD THROUGH THE VENTS. *SLC

WHILE WASHING CAR CONSUMER NOTICED EXCESSIVE BRAKE DUST. CONSUMER TOOK VEHICLE TO DEALER AND THEY STATED THAT CAMBERS WERE OUT OF ALIGNMENT. DEALER SAID REAR TOE AND CAMBERS WERE OUT OF RANGE, SO THEY SET REAR AND FRONT TOE. 4 DAYS LATER, NOTICED DUST AGAIN. CONSUMER STATED SAME PROBLEM HAS REOCCURRED FOR LAST MONTH. *AK THE SEAL AROUND THE REAR WINDOW IS LEAKING. CONSUMER STATES VEHICLE STILL PULLING TO THE LEFT AND THE RIGHT. FLUID LEAK FROM LEFT FRONT WHEEL, DEALER COULD NOT FIND ANY PROBLEMS. DEALER STATES EXCESSIVE BRAKE DUST IS NORMAL FOR THIS VEHICLE. *SLC

VEHICLE WAS EXPERIENCING A PROBLEM WITH A HUMMING NOISE. VEHICLEHAS BEEN INTO DEALER SHOP ON FIVE OCCASIONS, AND UNABLE TO LOCATE PROBLEM.*AK *SLC

STEERING WHEEL IS VERY LOOSE AND MAKING A GIRDING NOISE SINCE DATE OF PURCHASE . CONSUMER HAS CONTACTED DEALER AND A REPAIR SHOP, AND WAS TOLD THAT PARTS HAD BEEN OMITTED DURING MANUFACTURING, CAUSING VEHICLE TO HAVE POOR STEERING CAPABILITIES. PLEASE PROVIDE FURTHER DETAILS. *AK

THERE WAS A WRINKLE THE LEFT SIDE OF CONVERTIBLE TOP. WHEN THIS WAS ADJUSTED IT EXPOSED DEFROSTER GRID VISBLE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM. CONSUMER ALSO STATED THIS MADE POOR VISIBILITY IN THE REAR WINDOW. PLEAS PUT IN VIN. *AK

WHILE DRIVING ON INTERSTATE ABOUT 65 MPH THERE WAS A CLUNKING NOISE. CONSUMER SLOWED VEHICLE DOWN. THERE WAS A RUMBLING NOISE WHEN DRIVING AT 25 MPH. VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO DEALER IN OCALA, FL, AND THE DEALER REPLACED BRAKE CALIPER BOLT WHICH HAD FALLEN OFF. *AK *SLC

BRAKE CALIPER BOLT BROKE OFF BRAKES WHILE CONSUMER WAS TRAVLING ON ROAD. THE DEALER DID FIX PROBLEM FOR NOW.*AK THE BRAKE CALIPER BOLT BROKE OFF CAUSING A RUMBLING SOUND UNDERNEATH THE VEHICLE WHILE THE CONSUMER WAS TRAVELLING. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED AND WAS FIXED. *YH

ON 3/4/01 MY HUSBAND WAS DRIVING THE CAR WITH HIS FOOT ON THE BRAKE GOING AROUND 15 MPH WHEN THE CAR ACCELERATED, HE PUT THE CAR IN NEUTRAL TO GET IT TO STOP. ON 5/25/01 I WAS DRIVING 45 MPH WHEN I WENT TO ACCELERATE AND THE CAR WOULD NOT, IT FELT LIKE THE CAR WAS IN NEUTRAL AND IT WAS IN DRIVE. ON 5/25/01 I WENT TO PULL INTO A PARKING SPOT WITH MY FOOT ON THE BARKE WHEN SUDDENLY THE CAR ACCELERATED AND WAS OUT OF CONTROL. I WENT OVER 2 SETS OF PARKING BLOCKS HIT A SIGN AND CRASHED INTO A PARKED CAR. AFTER I HIT THE CAR MY SON WHO WAS A PASSENGER IN THE CAR PUT THE CAR IN NEUTRAL TO STOP IT.*AK

THE CONSUMER APPLIED THE BRAKE WHILE APPROACHING A STOP LIGHT, THE VEHICLE STOPPED THEN ,LURCHED FORWARD THREE OR FOUR FEET WHILE THE DRIVER'S FOOT WAS STILL ON THE BRAKE, THESE INCIDENTS HAPPENS 10 DAYS AFTER PURCHASE, ON ONE OCCASION THE DRIVER APPLIED THE BRAKE AND NOTHING HAPPEN THIS CAUSED THE VEHICLE TO HIT A PORCH. NLM

WAS GOING AROUND A CURB THROUGH A DRIVE THROUGH WINDOW WHEN STEERING LOCKED UP. CONTACTED DEALERSHIP , AND WAS ABLE TO TAKE VEHICLE IN FOR INSPECTION. WAS INFORMED BY MECHANIC THAT CAUSE OF STEERING LOCK UP COULD NOT BE FOUND.*AK *JB

AN APPOINTMENT WAS MADE TO HAVE RECALL 01V-011 PERFORMED BUT WHEN THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER THE PARTS WERE NOT AVAILABLE. NLM

HAVE A BRAND NEW CAR AND ENGINE OIL NOW LEAKING. DEALER SAID IT IS OIL GALLEY PLUG AND CYLINDER HEAD MUST BE REMOVED TO FIX. *AK

WHEN COMING OUT OF CAR WASH BRAKES FAILED, PEDAL WENT TO FLOOR, THIS HAS HAPPENED 4 TIMES. DEALER FOUND LOTS OF BRAKE DUST. THIS HAS CONSUMER WORRIED ABOUT DRIVING IN RAIN. *AK

WHEN I PURCHASED THE CAR BRAND NEW, THE SUNVISOR ON TOP WAS LOOSE, THE DEALERSHIP SAID IT WAS FINE, THEN A COUPLE OF DAYS LATER I NOTICED IT WAS COMING OFF MORE. THEY DID FIX THIS THEN I REPORTED THAT THE KEYLESS ENTRY REMOTE DID NOT WORK . I WENT THERE ON THREE OCCASIONS FOR APPROXIMATELY 5 HOURS TOTAL TO HAVE THIS FIXED, THEY DID FIX AND NOW IT DOES NOT WORK AGAIN. I AM ALSO HEARING A WATER SWISHING SOUND WHEN I START THE CAR AND WHEN DRIVING MOSTLY IN CENTER OF CAR, BUT CAN BE HEARD IN ALL AREA INCLUDING WHEN I STEP ON AND OFF THE BRAKE. I WENT TO THE DEALERSHIP AND SAW THREE SALES PEOPLE AND THEY COULD NOT HELP ME AND TOLD ME TO COME BACK ON MONDAY. THEY WERE VERY RUDE AND WOULD NOT EVEN OFFER A SUGGESTION ABOUT THE PROBLEM I WAS HAVING. THIS IS A BRAND NEW CAR AND COSTING MORE THAN 23,000 DOLLARS, SHOULD I HAVE ALL THESE PROBLEMS ALREADY. *JB ***DIMSII IVOQ ENTRY POSTED AFTER 12/12/02 CUT-OVER TO ARTEMIS****741071

THE DEALER HAD NO PARTS AVAILABLE TO REPAIR RECALL 00V-320 OF THE FUEL RETURN HOSE. NLM