2001 Dodge Lancer

Routine

Owners filed 3 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the tires › tread/belt. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Tires › Tread/Belt2
000
Power Train › Automatic Transmission › Park/Neutral Start Interlock Switch1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Tires › Tread/Belt
Filed Jul 2, 2003NC

WHILE TRAVELING ON THE HIGHWAY HE HEARD A LOUD NOISE COMING FROM THE PASSENGER SIDE, TIRE TREAD SEPARATED. PLEASE FILL IN ADDITIONAL INFORMATION DEALER IS AWARE OF THE PROBLEM.

Tires › Tread/Belt
Filed Jun 27, 2003NC

WHILE DRIVING 55 MPH THE DRIVERS SIDE TIRE TREAD SEPARATED FROM THE VEHICLE. THE TIRE WAS A BRIDGESTONE DUER604 P24570/R16. *NLM

Power Train › Automatic Transmission › Park/Neutral Start Interlock Switch
Filed Oct 29, 2001KY

AFTER ENGAGING VEHICLE INTO PARK IT INADVERTENTLY JUMPED OUT OF GEAR AND ROLLED INTO A NEIGHBOR'S FENCE. DEALER/MANUFACTURER WERE NOT NOTIFIED AT THIS TIME. *AK CONSUMER FEELS THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH THE TRANSFER CASE, HOWEVER THE DEALER WILL NOT INSPECT IT. *JB

3 of 3 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2001
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20021000Routine
2001 — this page3000Routine
19951010Routine

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Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.