Other Engine Info: Sales Codes: ED3, EDG, ED6, ED7
Other Restraint System Info: Active Seat Belt at all Seating Position, Frontal airbag at outboard seating position
Plant Company Name: Sterling Heights Assembly
Seat Belts All: Manual
Steering Location: Left Hand Drive (LHD)
TPMS: Direct
Trim: LX
Turbo: No
Vehicle Type: PASSENGER CAR
Model year
COMPONENT
Complaint
2012
SERVICE BRAKES
THIS CHRYSLER 2012 200 STARTED TO HAVE BRAKE SQUEALING ISSUES AT ABOUT 7,000 MILES I WENT TO DEALERSHIP AND THEY TOLD ME THAT IT WAS PROBABLY JUST BEING BROKE IN SINCE I PURCHASED THIS CAR AT 200 MILES ON IT. THE PROBLEM CONTINUED AND NO ONE AT THE DEALERSHIP WOULD ADDRESS THIS PROBLEM. I THEN TOLD THEM THEY HAD TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT AND THEY THEN TOLD ME THAT THERE WAS NOT A FIX FOR THIS THAT CHRYSLER COULD NOT FIX THIS PROBLEM. AND THAT THEY THE DEALERSHIP DENNIS DILLON AND CHRYSLER HAD NO IDEA WHAT TO DO. I CONTINUED TO DRIVE MY CAR AND IN SEPTEMBER OF 2013 MY CAR'S CHECK ENGINE LIGHT CAME ON AND I TOOK INTO THE DEALER DENNIS DILLON AND WAS ADVISED THAT MY CYLANDER HEAD WAS GONE AND WOULD NEED REPAIRED. I WAS TOLD TO GO AHEAD AND DIVE MY CAR WHILE THE PARTS CAME IN. MY CAR WAS FIXED AND PICKED UP FROM DEALER THEN 1 DAY LATER MY CAR OVERHEATED ON INTERSTATE AND BROKE DOWN WAS THEN TOLD A CLAMP CAME OFF AND WAS THEN FIXED. SINCE THIS ISSUE MY CAR HAS NOT DRIVEN THE SAME. IT IS SLUGGISH . I ASKED THE DEALER ABOUT THE LEMON LAW AND WAS TOLD TO CONTACT CHRYSLER . I DID SO AND WAS TOLD BY CHRYSLER THAT THERE IS NOTHING ANYONE CAN DO. MY BRAKES STILL SQEAL VERY LOUDLY AND CHRYLSER TOLD ME THAT ITS BECASUE THEY REPLACED THE BRAKE PADS AND NO LONGER HAVE ASBESTOS' IN THEM. I THEN ADVISED THEM THAT I HAVE DRIVEN OTHER MODELS AND MAKES AND DID NOT HAVE THAT PROBLEM. THEY REFUSED TO BE OF ANY ASSISTANCE. MY STEERING IS ALSO AN ISSUE IN WHICH THE DEALERSHIP HAS SAID THAT IT NEEDED AN ALIGNMENT BUT SINCE THE CAR WAS ONLY A COUPLE HUNDRED MILES ON IT. IT HAS PULLED SEVERLY TO THE LEFT. THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE AND THIS CAR NEEDS TO FALL UNDER THE LEMON LAW AND BE DEALT WITH. *TR
2013
POWER TRAIN
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2013 CHRYSLER 200. THE CONTACT STATED THAT REMOVING HIS FOOT FROM THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL, THE VEHICLE WOULD CONTINUE TO ACCELERATE. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE VEHICLE REMAINED AT A MINIMUM OF 20 MPH UNLESS THE BRAKES WERE APPLIED. THE CONTACT TOOK THE VEHICLE TO THE DEALER AND THE DEALER STATED THAT THE VEHICLE WAS FUNCTIONING NORMALLY. THE DEALER EXPLAINED THAT THE OCCURRENCE WAS NORMAL FOR THE NEWER MODEL TRANSMISSIONS THEY ADDED TO THE PARTICULAR YEAR MODEL. THE VIN WAS NOT AVAILABLE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 10 AND THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 1,200. *TR