2012 Chrysler 200: engine overheating

Filed Feb 22, 2024 · Engine · TX

Engine. A dealership charged me thousands of dollars and refused my car of needing to leave the service mechanic shop. Due to a defect of my cylinder head gasket being diagnosed as my car causing a leak. My engine estimates was billed after declining work from the service department explaining to my car was going to blow up. I had to drive with the overheating light comes on from the engine and cooling system defect. The recall was not requested I am complaining has caused a safety issue driving my Chrysler 200 lx. Companies that have serviced the maintenance of my vehicle have billed to fix issues my car don't have. Because the safety recall my vehicle does not offer for cooling symptoms. To breakdown and overheat from paying for service to prevent the problem, repair companies billed fees to prevent declining service, for a safety risk given to me as customer. I have a invoice billing statement could not question dealership why my car hazard to blowing up. When having to pay mechanic for labor not recommendent agreed to afford as paying customer. The problem has reproduced and confirmed by a dealer. After independent service center decline me owing a inspection diagnosis balance. Another company I take it to did not let me out a agreement to decline the mechanic labor. My car has been inspected from the dealership after I explained to them was waiting for a recall to approve the labor fees billed to me. P03 error code and the car inside lights would turn on and off from breaking and turning with the signal light button. Warning signs was overheating light on when the car is not running hot. Along with the temperature gauge going higher after replacing both thermostats and cooling sensor. The car gauge needle near middle hot level was the when the issues first appear as warning. A lot of the symptons of the engine cooling system issues occur during hot weather. Cooling system from the engine defect worsen not prevented over hot or cooler weather.

Filed Sep 22, 2023 · Engine · IL

Engine keeps overheating with no engine codes I have changed the thermostat the thermostat housing the radiator both fans and the water pump and none of this has fixed the problem the coolant doesn’t cycle from the coolant reservoir regardless of coolant levels are low or depleted. This is going to lead to bigger problems in the engine and the mechanics are out of Awnser as to what is happening.

Filed Jun 7, 2021 · Brakes, Engine · TX

For weeks now ive been noticing a weird grinding or dry rubbing sound underneath the front end of my chrysler. Checked it out a few times, as though i am not a mechanic i can identify the basics of something not right. However, after my husband and his brother both looking it over on seperate occasions, they have noted a leak under the carriage of the car. Often here recently, the guage senses an over heating of some sort. Since this notice, we have replaced the oil cooler twice in a year; as well as flushed the hoses associated with the coolant reservoir. Fixed temporary but has now already started getting too hot. Which simply tells me that its something further internal thats wrong. I was informed of an engine recall: L33 of my chrysler model. However havent seen one on this website. When driving yesterday, i noticed a light on my cluster that indicated the traction has failed. When i brake, all u hear or feel is a vibration under your feet, up front. I replaced my brake pads all 4, within the past 4 months and theyre now rusted over and u notice a brake fluid leak on the front right side. After a light, the grinding noise, the vibration and the overheating; i am positive that this will eventually cause a car stall or worse a fatal accident. My brakes could eventually fail while driving in traffic, causing a crash. Or my car could just all out stalland the cluster can trip and i could be in harms way if at the time it does this i could be goin 70 on the interstate or in a turninglane in town and without proper fix; it could easily cause a fatal accident and i could be killed or worse my children!

Filed May 7, 2021 · Engine · 100,000 miles · WA

The car won't stop overheating, we have replaced thermostats and pumps thinking there was a leak but that never stopped the problem. 20 seconds after starting the car the engine is already at the halfway mark for how hott it is, and even goign 30 miles an hour get all the way to the top and starts overheating. On my way to work I almost crashed cause it showed no indicators at al!!! Just starting bellowing smoke. So I pulled over and turned it off and didnt move it.

Filed Nov 17, 2020 · Engine · 148,000 miles · LA

Tl* the contact owns a 2012 chrysler 200. The contact stated while driving 35 MPH, the vehicle was pulling to left with the temperature gauge rising rapidly. The contact stated the engine overheat warning light was illuminated. The vehicle was driven to the residence. The vehicle was not diagnosed nor repaired. A dealer was not contacted. Upon investigation, the contact associated the failure with the federal safety agency campaign number: 11v487000 (engine and engine cooling) however, the VIN was not included. The manufacturer had not been informed of failure. The failure mileage was approximately 148,000.*dt

Filed May 29, 2020 · Engine · 136,000 miles · TN

I left my home, in my vehicle which had been running completely normally with no dash lights on, overheating, leaking, etc. I live on a dangerous road (it's extremely curvy, dark, has a high accident rate and no shoulders just 12ft. Deep concrete ditches on both sides. I left home around 9:35pm and made it approx. .5-1 mile and braked slightly to take a sharp curve, and with no warning my engine stalls completely (also causing loss of power steering). I was doing roughly 25-30 MPH. When the engine died. The loss of power steering caused me to be unable to keep my vehicle safely in my lane on this sharp turn (I was just lucky that the oncoming lane was clear). Luck is also all that prevented me from breaking down awkwardly positioned right in a dark blind curve. I was able to coast on what little speed I had left, to one of the only safe pull offs on my road ( I barely had enough momentum to do that, and it was just by chance that I was by the spot where it was possible to get out of the roadway. I have seen well over 50 online complaints so far, of owners of 2012 chrysler 200's who have suffered failures practically identical to mine. My vehicle had been in for regular maintenance/oil change just a week or so prior to this, the inspection revealed no issues needing attention. The car runs perfectly normal right up to the moment you loose all power and your ability to steer with any precision or speed. This problem is obviously fairly common in this vehicle, seriously impairs your ability to control the car suddenly and without warning, causes no check engine warning therefore no error code to diagnose by, and depending on your circumstances and luck at the time could either cause a giant inconvenience or a serious tragedy. Chrysler already recalled for a nearly identical issue but only included the 2015 models. They need to address this before someone dies.

Filed Feb 19, 2020 · Visibility · 107,000 miles · PA

The heater core become clogged preventing air flow, to defrost the windshield on the passenger side of the car. I even did the regular scheduled coolant flushes to prevent this from happening, and it still happened. It becomes dangerous as the vehicle heater core becomes so backed up that not even a full heater core flush can save it. I have read on line that this is a issue that happens to a lot chrysler vehicles, and it sounds as if it has to do a lot to with the car was manufactured through the sand cast process. The car has overheated also has a hard time keeping the car warm because of the clogged heater core. This problem has effected many of the 200 vehicles , and im surprised that a resolve has not be brought out yet., it almost got me in a accident on the turnpike because I couldn't defrost the windows.

Filed Apr 7, 2017 · Engine · 90,000 miles · MI

Tl* the contact owns a 2012 chrysler 200. While driving 45 MPH, the vehicle overheated and stalled and the check engine warning indicator illuminated. The vehicle was towed to an independent mechanic where it was diagnosed that the engine and radiator needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 90,000.

Filed Nov 15, 2013 · Brakes, Driver assistance · 7,000 miles · ID

This chrysler 2012 200 started to have brake squealing issues at about 7,000 miles I went to dealership and they told me that it was probably just being broke in since I purchased this car at 200 miles on it. The problem continued and no one at the dealership would address this problem. I then told them they had to do something about it and they then told me that there was not a fix for this that chrysler could not fix this problem. And that they the dealership dennis dillon and chrysler had no idea what to do. I continued to drive my car and in september of 2013 my car's check engine light came on and I took into the dealer dennis dillon and was advised that my cylander head was gone and would need repaired. I was told to go ahead and dive my car while the parts came in. My car was fixed and picked up from dealer then 1 day later my car overheated on interstate and broke down was then told a clamp came off and was then fixed. Since this issue my car has not driven the same. It is sluggish . I asked the dealer about the lemon law and was told to contact chrysler . I did so and was told by chrysler that there is nothing anyone can do. My brakes still sqeal very loudly and chrylser told me that its becasue they replaced the brake pads and no longer have asbestos' in them. I then advised them that I have driven other models and makes and did not have that problem. They refused to be of any assistance. My steering is also an issue in which the dealership has said that it needed an alignment but since the car was only a couple hundred miles on it. It has pulled severly to the left. This is not acceptable and this car needs to fall under the lemon law and be dealt with.

Filed Sep 17, 2013 · Electrical, Engine · 6,047 miles · MD

Tl* the contact owns a 2012 chrysler 200. The contact stated that while driving 20 MPH, the steering wheel became difficult to turn. The vehicle was taken to the dealer for inspection where they stated that there was no power steering fluid in the vehicle. The vehicle was replenished with power steering fluid but the failure recurred. The also contact stated that the power steering hose exploded and needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired. The manufacturer was not notified. The failure mileage was 6,047. The consumer stated there were numerous problems with the vehicle, such as a coolant leak, oil leak, air condition, the cd player did not work, the power steering hose burst, the wire harness, the transmission was replaced, the engine was noisy and the seat belt on the passenger side was not properly installed. The vehicle cut off several times. Updated 10/31/13

Filed Aug 12, 2013 · Transmission · 16,191 miles · AZ

Entering the on-ramp of a 65 MPH highway, at the hov lane (so the left most lane), the car wouldn't accelerate and started to decline in speed. I was almost rear ended several times. I had to cut across 4 lanes of traffic to exit. I called the dealership and told them this had happened before, but at that time they couldn't recreate the code, and that they told me to bring it in if it happened again. I took the car in, they got the code, and stated my car thinks it's overheating, so it's shutting itself down. I told them that wasn't possible since I hadn't driven the car in 2 days and the distance from my house to the on-ramp was probably less than a mile. The guy then told me that if I started it up, and the problem seemed to be better I could take it since it was a saturday and the only service techs they had could only perform oil changes. I drove it to my friend's house about 2 miles away and left it. Unfortunately I had to drive home, and to/from work today. I called the dealer from work, and scheduled to drop it off the next morning since that was their next availability. The guy said he'll have to keep it until the problem happens again. I stated that would be inconvenient since they don't do loaner cars, and the last time the problem happened was about 3k miles ago. Hopefully he can fix it based off of the code they pulled a few days ago. This stinks! The reason I bought a brand new car was for reliability.