Tl*the contact owns a 2004 chrysler sebring. The contact stated that while driving 5 MPH, she rear ended another vehicle. Twenty minutes later, the front passenger tire suddenly blew out. A spare tire was installed; yet, within fifteen minutes while driving to an authorized dealer, the contact suddenly lost control of the vehicle, veered off of the road and crashed. The contact was injured and the vehicle was destroyed. The police report listed a statement from a witness indicating that the front passenger side tire was not on the vehicle properly. The contact stated that the front passenger side tire was the same area which she had the two prior failures. She stated that the failure was related to the federal safety agency recall 09e056000 (suspension:front:control arm:lower ball joint). The manufacturer had not been notified. The current and failure mileages were approximately 60,000.
2004 Chrysler Sebring suspension complaints
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Tl*the contact owns a 2004 chrysler sebring. While driving 20 MPH he heard a noise in the rear of the vehicle. Upon further inspection he noticed that the passenger rear tire failed. He removed the tire and discovered corrosion on the driver and passenger rear shackle. He speculated that the shackles failed since they were made out of aluminum. He replaced the left and right rear shackles with metal shackles. The vehicle identification number was not available. The failure and current mileages were 80,000.
Rear shock mounting plate on 2004 chrysler sebring disintegrated from corrosion, causing the spring to rub on tire and tire failure at high speed. No injury.
I was turning right after a stop, and my front right ball joint failed, causing the car suspension to fall onto the wheel rim, and I lost my steering. I backed up to get out of the way of cross-traffic, and inadvertently pulled the right boot out of the transmission, and the front passenger corner of the car fell all the way to the ground. Car was towed, inspected, and found tat the left ball joint was also loose, so I replaced both sides, as well as a new right drive axle and boot. The mechanic said that this model has greaseless bearings in the ball joints, which is a problem he has seen before. Total repair bill was over $770. I feel lucky, in that in another 5 miles I would have been on an interstate highway.
04 chrysler sebring 4 door sedan v6 2.7l rear strut to body mounts failed. The mounts appear to be cast aluminum and dissolved to nothing cause suspension failure. This then caused the fronts to be replaced as well. The whole car become dangerous to drive causing the car to sway and have excess play in steering.
I was driving along, and suddenly a rattling noise started coming from the right rear of the car when I would hit bumps. The car's handling was the same and the vehicle still felt stable, so I continued driving until I got to the dealership the next day. The y advised that the rear strut mounts had deteriorated, and that chrysler had revised the mounts after my vehicle year because of so many people having the same problem. Now I have to pay $300 to get them fixed!
Upper rear strut mounts for 2004 chrysler sebring severe corrosion causing mounts to fail. If not caught in time strut assembly could wear through inside side-wall of tire and cause blowout, possibly wreck. Replacement parts are all but impossible to find.
I was driving my vehicle and started to hear a knocking in the rear of my vehicle. I stopped at a muffler/shock dealer and they had to replace a broken upper strut plate and bearings on the right rear, because these parts had completely rusted away. My vehicle is only 4-years old. About a month later, the same thing happened to the left rear of my vehicle, but the shop could not locate any repair parts. There are so many of these parts breaking the dealers can't keep the parts on hand. I was told by chrysler corp and other parts dealers; that there are over 9,000 of these strut-plates on back order. This makes driving the car unsafe, and with these many breakdowns the vehicle should be included in a recall to reimburse owners for this expense.
I had owned the car less than 4 years when the rear strut mount on the passenger side broke from corrosion and caused me to have to have the rear mounts and struts replaced. I emailed chrysler and they responded that since the car was no longer under warranty for those parts that there was nothing they could do about it.
2004 chrysler sebring rear upper strut mounts broken from corrosion. Replacement parts not available. Back ordered by the thousands.
Incident: outer, or upper plates for strut assembly deteriorated; vehicle deemed unsafe to operate; parts on nationwide backorder; approx. 3,000 vehicles affected by this.
Tl*the contact owns a 2004 chrysler sebring. On june 25, 2007, while driving approximately 50 MPH, the contact heard a loud noise coming from the rear of the vehicle. The contact took the vehicle to the shop and found that the rear shock mounts were corroded. The rear passenger side shock mount had detached from the vehicle. The manufacturer stated that it was not their problem and the contact would have to pay for the repairs. The current and failure mileages were 71,931.
Have loud clunck in front of vehicle, repair job was done, ball joint and control arm, driver's side front wheel, but one day later problem returned. I am being told cannnot do anything else until the problem returns, the problem is intermittent.
Tl*- the contact states that while driving on the highway at 65 MPH, the vehicle's upper control arm broke off, on the rear passenger side tire. The tires got locked inside the body and the rear end went broadside. The contact states that his mechanic explain to him that the problem with the vehicle was the upper control arm, both bolts broke off in the rear.
Vehicle - 2004 chrysler sebring convertible, limited delivered new - november 2003 purchased used - march 2004, 600 miles on vehicle, original owner deceased, purchased from estate the vehicle has a vibration problem between approximately 45 - 60 MPH. It has been serviced by a chrysler dealership five (5) times and by a goodyear company owned distributor three (3) times. The tires have been force balanced several times and then replaced with new goodyear assurance comfortread tires. These tires have been force balanced several times by both chrysler and goodyear with no acceptable level of positive impact towards resolution. The vibration continues to date. Is there a vibration problem in all such vehicles? We have been unable to resolve this vibration. The vibration continues with the vehicle engine turned off and the car coasting in neutral. In this condition, the vibration can be felt all the way down to a speed of approximately 35 MPH.
I have just bought a chrysler sebring 2004, and experienced some problems. I have not been to teh dealer yet for them, just wanted to conform the problem first. I did a search online and saw this website an dthe I agreed with all the complaints already on here. 1). The car idles badly, and when slowing down at a light or while u have your foot on the brake, the vehicle will jump forward suddenly! I almost hit the car in front of me. This has happened twice so far. I have 128 miles on my car. After reading same complaints on this website, I am affraid that the dealer will not be able to fix this, which is pathetic that a 30000 dollar car would have something like this that is so annoying. 2. When u are decellerating with ur foot on brake to stop at a stop light for example, just before the RPM needle reaches teh idle point at "1" almost.. It will suddenly go back up to about 1.5 and then come back to 1. I dont know if its bad gear shifting by teh autotran or just bad timming adjustement? But its annoying, cuz it make teh car jump a little if you are soft braking. 3). Twice already the engine just dies.. And I think thsi is related to the previous two problems. I was backing up in my parking at hime.. And as soon as I put gear in reverse.. The RPM sudeenly dropped.. And eventually engine shut down. Same thing happened when I pulled up to the parking entrance at work to show my access card, and when I put it in p, the RPM dropped causing the car to stall. 4). Transmission makes clunk sound sometimes while driving when changing from n to d. Or when I do a cold start in teh morning and then put teh gear in d, as soon as I move teh car an inch.. It makes thsi sound.. Somethimes looks liek coming from teh front end not the tran.. I donno what that is. But this also has been reported by other people on this same site, no one is hurt but I see my self bumping someone in future sooo clearly.!!
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