Two separate incidents have happened. First was in november 2018. I was driving home on a city street when the vehicle flashed the throttle body sensor light along with the check engine light and the car lost power and would not accelerate past 25mph. Brought to dodge dealership for diagnosis and they couldn't check the etc light due to it shutting off with restart of the vehicle but was told I needed a new alternator. Fixed the alternator and no problems again until january 2019. This time I was driving home from work on a very busy highway and the car flashed the check engine light and died while in motion. Power steering was very tight but I was able to get to the side of the road safely and put the car in park. After 4 tries of restarting the vehicle, it started back up but the check engine light is still on. I will be taking it back to the dodge dealership in hopes of finding out what is wrong, but am nervous because of what I have read amongst other avenger owners.
2012 Dodge Avenger fuel system complaints
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Tl* the contact owns a 2012 dodge avenger. After fueling the vehicle and driving approximately 3 MPH, the vehicle stalled. There were no warning indicators illuminated. The vehicle was towed to jim cogdill dodge chrysler jeep ram (8544 kingston pike, knoxville, tn 37919) where it was initially diagnosed that the fuel pump failed and needed replacement. After replacing the fuel pump, the dealer stated that the totally integrated power module needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 92,000. *dt
Brake recall: the brakes grab or slow to stop causing it to not stop in a straight line or jump, flutter or hesitate to brake. Engine recall: got car 6/2017 clinging noise, after 70,000 miles, all oil changes 1000 miles before its due, started after the 2 oil change. Small of burning wire smell. (oil change 4 days go now engine light on) fuel propusion system recall: car seems to shift funny when pushing gas, struggling for gas to flow when pushing the gas.
March 12, 2017 heading south, down veteran parkway springfield il. When I noticed my car red 2012 dodhe avenger r/t turned off mid motion around 45mph. No warning!! No acceleration, no brakes, no power stearing!? No control of the car! Staying calm but clueless, I was able to turn to a side road and cautiously turned into a parking lot next to office max and waited 1 hr for a tow.street name ilse ave. Towed to green dodge springfield il the same day. Monday, march 13 the tech diagnoses fuel pump not working, (2cd diagnosis of fuel pump failure this year. 1st time in january 2017 tech diagnosed shortage in wire to fuel pump fried the fuel pump. Do they ordered the part and fixed the problem ( so they thought) now this 2cd diagnosis was new fuel pump. So they ordered the part. Well the fuel pump worked but car did not run. Further diagnosis by the tech from green dodge, is faulty tipm module! Not the fuel pump, not a shortage in wire from previous diagnosis they did. Shouldn't the tipm should have been noticed the first time. I have done some research on the tipm settlement for chrysler lawsuit for installing faulty tipm modules in thousands of vehicles and I believe this includes my vehicle here red 2012 dodge avenger r/t, and I believe green dodge took advantage of me as a valued customer as they say , my money , and my time in need of help! I have payed 1400$ almost to get this problem fixed and almost 3 months time span for same issue that should have been addressed the first time!
The air bag warning light illuminated. Few days later began hearing a clicking under the dashboard behind the glove box. Received notice for recall. Due to location nearest dodge dealership is 2 hours away. Decided to wait. A short time later, the car began to lose power briefly intermittently. Once again, due to location decided to wait. Two days ago the car stalled completely while traveling at 45 miles per hour. No steering, no brakes, nothing. Scared me. Trying to find someone locally to look at it. Today it died in the middle of a very busy intersection. Once again, coming to the intersection the car dropped below 1,000 rpms and then dies.
The throttle body on my car has to be replaced. My son has had numerous incidents of the car running rough, seemingly not getting enough gas, and the final straw before taking to the shop was when it the engine died as he was driving. This car is only three years old with approximately 62,000 miles on it. It is not at all acceptable for this part to go bad given the age / miles of the car. After speaking with several shop owners and technicians, I've found that this has been a common failure on late model dodge vehicles. In addition the throttle failure, he has no heat coming in the passenger side of the car. Only cold air as if something is stuck open. This began the later part of last winter when the car was just two years old. He just dealt with it at the time due to lack of money. With winter coming, this will need to be addressed right away as well. Then we have the power mirror not working on one side. Which also began last year. And last but not least, the airbag light is on. I did see that there is a recall having to do with one of the airbags. I will schedule that right away, but it remains to be seen if that is why the airbag light is on.
Upon starting the car it bucks and hesitates also backing into traffic bucking still and issue...dodge has been notified numerous times directly from the bbb and nothing has been resolved thank you!!
Upon acceleration the cars bogs down and hesitates..it also bucks upon starting making it extremely difficult to pull out into traffic...the transmissions has been replaced and sensors and the problem still exists and dodge claims this is a characteristic of this particular model and year!!
I have had several problems with the acceleration of this vehicle the dealership replaced the transmission and several sensors due to bucking and hesitations. This never resolved the situation it still bucks when its moist or rains I was told by the dealership that this is a characteristic of this particular model.
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