1995 Chrysler Cirrus: sudden loss of power

Filed Dec 26, 2005 · Transmission · 178,000 miles · CA

The first failure was on dec 19 2005, I was driving on the freeway at approx. 65 MPH and the engine quit running resulting in loss of power steering and power brakes also the transmission would not shift into a lower gear it just free wheeled. After bring the car to a stop on the side of the freeway and putting the transmission in park it restarted. This failure has occurred three more times this week.

Filed Nov 30, 2004 · Engine · 126,200 miles · MI

1995 chrysler cirrus, 2.5l 6cyln engine, bought for our twin daughters 16th birthday and within 2 days of getting the car, they were driving on the expressway and the engine stalled resulting in them losing ps/pb control., the car has repeatedly stalled while they have been driving and they came very close to hitting a man as he was walking along the side of the road because of this engine failure and loss of power steering and power brakes. This car also has a problem starting, my husband is a senior automotive techinician and he found that when trying to start the car there is no spark, have we solved the problem as to what to replace? No, it could be a number of possibilities from the coil to the computer chip. Our daughters drove the car for 9 days and now it sits waiting to get fixed, do we want to go through the expense of guessing what part it needs to run again? No!! When reviewing the complaints about this car in general, I have no idea why this car has never been recalled for this problem, it is a disaster waiting to happen, maybe your waiting for someone to get killed or seriously injured before you will take any action on this, I think it is very bad business to not even know why this problem is happening. I hope for other peoples sake that no one gets hurt over this, unlike your company that only cares about the big bucks involved. Do a job right or don't do it at all. I will never again buy a chrysler product and will let anyone know who is in the marketplace for a car.

Filed Aug 7, 2004 · Transmission · 115,000 miles · DE

While driving at any speed the car will just lose power, start slowing down, the RPM will rise to over 5000 rpms. Have to drive at under 40 miles/hr just to try and keep the RPM under 4500. This is scarly when you got kids in the car and on a highway. This has become an everyday problem I could just start the car and the RPM will rise faster than the speedometer and wont go down, or I could just be driving and it will happen for no reason and you never know when it will happen. I have looked at nemerous car reviews related to the this model and year and in all of them eg http://www.carreview.com/midsize-compact/chrysler/prd_230_1531crx.aspx#reviews. Just to mention one and in all of them several people are complaining about this problem, I also took time to read some of the complaints you have received over the years and found the same thing. Would like to know if this issue was looked into and what can be done to correct it. As almost everything has been tried to no success from changing the computers to new transmissions, stopping at the side of the road and starting again. Hoping to hear from you soon. I would be willing to alow you pple test drive my car and get a feel of it first hand. Thankyou in advance.

Filed Sep 9, 2000 · Engine · MA

Car stalls out erratic in nature no warning results in loss of power steering and power brakes

Filed May 10, 2000 · Electrical · FL

Driving at 45 MPH vehicle lost power. Turned key but engine would not start. Mechanic stated that car computer was damage due to faulty distributor. A replacement computer was put into vehicle but it too was damage. After conferring with dealer, it was determine that a faulty distributor cause computer to fail. I had to purchase a distributor and computer to fix problem. I believe that such a defect should be investigated and be classified as a recall. Thank you for your consideration on this matter.

Filed Oct 21, 1999 · Engine · NJ

While driving at 65 MPH the engine started running rough/ idled and lost power. Vehicle has been to the repair shop 15 times, and the dealer couldn't determine the cause of the problem.

Filed Aug 18, 1999 · Electrical · FL

Vehicle experiencing intermittent loss of power due to the design location and lack of heat shield of injector harness wiring & spark plug which is located under air intake, resulting in overheating to harness causing failure. Add to odino. 545631.

Filed Jul 12, 1999 · Acceleration, Engine · NJ

While driving at any rate of speed vehicle will randomly lose power. Also the vehicle idles to very high RPM. Dealer unable to find find or correct the problem. *ak

Filed May 17, 1999 · Electrical, Engine · FL

On several occasions, vehicle intermittently loss all power, caused by a blown fuse in the ignition system.

Filed May 17, 1999 · MO · fire

I have had 2 failuers of the AC compressor on this vehicle. Both times the compressor overheated during normal operation of the air conditioner on the vehicle. The first time it failed the compressor locked up, causing the serpentine belt to jam, causing loss of power steering and operation of the alternator. The second compressor failed after only 7,000 miles of operation and hs yet to be repaired.