Instrument panel (dash gauges) has a short and does not work, this includes the speedometer, odometer, and fuel &temp gauges. Engine head gasket is blown and is leaking oil badly, and excessive tire wear on the front of the car... Car is experiencing excessive gas consumption... Goes about 180 miles to a full 12 gallon tank of gas...it passes everything but a gas station... A tech at the dealership (ragland dodge, angleton texas) told me that these are very common problems with the dodge neon...( dot number: tire size: 165/80r/13 )
1996 Dodge Neon fuel system complaints
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Vehicle has had to have a new transmission, head gasket, spark plugs and wires, and the fuel gauge stopped functioning. All before 60,000 miles.
I have had my car in for repair 4 times in 3 yrs. First the spark plugs were bad, had to be replace. Second the wires melted together in my steering wheel column, 4rd the fueld sensor went out in fuel pump had to have the fuel pump replaced. Ask warrenty company what most common problem with the dodge neon was they said the head gasket blowing, now I guess it's my turn for that I took to dealer today for oil leak , they said head gasket blown, need to tear down engine to make sure nothing else is bad ( cracked block / head) seems like an awful lot of problems for a car that's not that old and has been maintained, very dissapointed in vehicle
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Gas gauge failed.
No summary provided by consumer.( dot number: tire size: 185r14 )
Fuel indicator failed.
Fuel gauge failed.
While backing out of a parking spot vehicle scraped a rock about the size of a football and the gas tank busted open.
The vehicle leaks gas and the vehicle cut off on the driver.tt consumer stated that vehicle leaked gas two days after purchase, consumer took vehicle back to dealer and the fuel pipe was replaced, two days later it failed and vehicle almost caught fire, consumer contacted manufacturer but they were no help.
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