Car stalls at least once a day while in traffic or at a red light. Ill be going about 20 MPH and it stalls. This could cause an accident. Also it jerks when leaving a stop light or sign.
2004 Dodge Stratus electrical complaints
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Dt: consumer says vehicle shakes at 50 MPH. Also, shakes when consumer first started vehicle. Consumer was told by dealer that shaking was caused by spark plug wires. Consumer stated wires were changed four times already, and it did not get better. Vehicle was taken to dealer to have wires changed. Vehicle was serviced regularly. Vehicle died intermittently. The check engine light came on. This happened about two weeks after purchase of vehicle.
When vehicle is parked and the owner inserts the key in the ignition the switch will not move, causing the vehicle not to start. Consumer is not able to use the vehicle. Owner is aware of other similar models that were recalled but this vehicle was not recalled due to model year.
Car does the following at random- when driving at low speeds it dies, sometimes when pulling into parking spaces the engines surges and causes car to lunge forward. Once when I backed out of my driveway and put the car in drive it surged and lunged forward. The engine, on several occasions has idled very roughly, the engine light stayed on once and the other time it flashed 5 or 6 times and quit. Noe the motor in the rear window is defective! I have had this car to the dealership 6-7 times for this problem and "they can't duplicate the problem".the lemon law in tennesse requires 4 visits for the same problem, have exceeded that by far! I am done with dodge/chrysler and all their products. I will buy a foreign car befor I ever buy another product from them!!!
Car was sitting in parking lot for about 8 hours, started car, loud squealing noise while in park and no radio or air conditioning, put into drive and reverse..no noise. Pulled out of parking lot and went approx. 1 block when car just died and radio/air came on. Car then started back up and has so far been ok. Dealership found nothing.
While driving on I-290 ( 3 lane super highway just outside chicago) the asd (automatic shut down) switch activated and turned my car off. I coasted to an exit but the car would not restart.
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