2015 Chrysler 200

AFTER DRIVING ALL DAY, I WAS ON ROAD AFTER 8 PM. DRIVING 60 ON HIGHWAY. CAR HICCUPED THEN STARTED DECELERATING QUICKLY. TRANSMISSION LIGHT CAME ON. THEN, BEFORE I GOT TO SAFE PLACE TO STOP THE DASHBOARD STARTED BLINKING MESSAGE TO PUT CAR IN PARK AND TURN OFF. HAD SAME PROBLEM LESS THAN 5000 MILES AGO. AFTER A WEEK AND WORKING WITH CORPORATE, THEY SAID IT WAS FAULTY POWER DISTRIBUTION BOX. *TR

COMING DOWN EXPRESSWAY AT ABOUT 65 MPH. SUDDENLY WARNING INDICATED POTENTIAL TRANSMISSION FAILURE AND CAR WAS LOSING POWER. PULLED OFF HIGHWAY AND SHUT ENGINE DOWN. RESTARTED AND WARNING WAS CLEARED EXCEPT FOR CHECK ENGINE LIGHT. TOOK CAR TO DEALER AND WIRING HARNESS WAS REPLACED AND COMPUTER RESET. ON APRIL 7TH, 2015 IN HEAVY TRAFFIC CAR LOST ENGINE POWER AND BEGAN TO STALL I WAS ABLE TO GET CAR (BARELY INTO TURNAROUND LANE BEFORE ENGINE STALLED OUT. MILEAGE ON CAR WAS AROUND 9500 MILES. WARNING AGAIN RELATED TO TRANSMISSION FAILURE AND ALL TRANSMISSION INDICATOR LIGHTS WERE ILLUMINATED. CAR LOCKED UP AND COULD NOT BE MOVED AS WHEELS WOULD NOT TURN. CAR TOWED TO JIM RIEHLS IN WARREN, MI. DANGEROUS SITUATION AS AUTO COMPLETELY LOCKED UP IN HEAVY TRAFFIC. POLICE DEMANDED IMMEDIATE MOVEMENT AND CALLED A TOW TRUCK AND STOOD BY UNTIL TRUCK ARRIVED. *TR

VEHICLE LOST ACCELERATION WHILE DRIVING AT APPROX. 45 MPH (CAR WAS IN DRIVE). CAR WOULD NOT RESPOND TO THROTTLE INPUT, EVEN THOUGH CAR WAS RUNNING. HAD TO COAST TO A STOP, WHERE I ATTEMPTED TO SHIFT THE CAR INTO PARK, NEUTRAL & THE ROTARY DIAL WOULD NOT MOVE. LEFT CAR RUNNING WITH FOOT ON BRAKE FOR SEVERAL MINUTES, WHEN THE CAR SEEMED TO RETURN TO NORMAL, AS I WAS ABLE TO TURN ROTARY DIAL INTO PARK & THEN BACK INTO DRIVE. THIS IS THE SECOND OCCURRENCE OF THIS HAPPENING. PREVIOUS INCIDENT TOOK PLACE ABOUT 30 DAYS PRIOR. IN BOTH CASES CHRYSLER SERVICE DEPT. STATED THE CAR WAS FIXED. ACCORDING TO DEALER REPAIR ORDER. THE CAR LOST COMMUNICATION WITH TCM DIAGNOSTIC CODE WAS U0101-00 PERFORMED STAR CASE [XXX] I FEEL THIS CAR IS NO LONGER SAFE TO DRIVE. HAS BEEN RETURNED TO DEALER 4-6 TIMES SINCE PURCHASED NEW IN JUNE OF 2014. TRANSMISSION WAS REPLACED AT ABOUT 3,000 MILES. CURRENTLY PURSUING LEMON LAW...CURRENT STATUS IS THE CASE IS BEING AUDITED. INFORMATION REDACTED PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6). *TR

I PURCHASED THIS CAR BRAND NEW FROM A CHRYSLER DEALER. SINCE I'VE HAD MY CAR ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS ILL BE DRIVING ALONG AND THE VEHICLE WILL GET STUCK IN A NEUTRAL POSITION. ITS HAPPENED AT A VARIETY OF SPEEDS FROM 10 MPH TO 60 MPH. TWO OR THREE TIMES IT HAS DONE IT WHEN TRYING TO CROSS A BUSY ROAD ALMOST CAUSING ME TO BE HIT ON MY SIDE AT HIGHWAY SPEEDS. ONCE OR TWICE IT HAS EVEN CAUSED THE CAR TO STALL. THIS IS A VERY SERIOUS ISSUE AND GOING TO CAUSE MANY FATALITIES. IT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED. I'VE NEVER HATED A VEHICLE LIKE THIS ONE. *TR

1ST TIME: ON HIGHWAY AT 55MPH GOT AND ERROR ON DASH: SERVICE TRANSMISSION THEN PERFORMANCE SHIFTING NOT AVAILABLE 2ND TIME: AFTER JUST 4-5 MINUTES OF DRIVING THE CAR HAD SAME ERRORS AS ABOVE. AT THE NEXT LIGHT, PRESSED GAS AND THERE WAS NO REVVING OF ENGINE (RPMS DID NOT MOVE). PUT IT INTO PARK AND IT SAID CAR IS NOT IN PARK, USE EMERGENCY BRAKE TO PREVENT MOVEMENT." PUT BRAKE ON, THEN INTO D, THEN BRAKE OFF AND CAR WENT VERY SLOWLY AS IT WAS STUCK IN 4TH GEAR. WENT ONTO HIGHWAY AND STILL STUCK IN 4TH FOR A FEW MILES (REVVING AT 4,000 RPMS AT ABOUT 60MPH). SUDDENLY THE ENGINE BEGAN REVVING ITSELF UP TO 5.5K WITHOUT MY FOOT ON THE PEDAL, BUT THERE WAS NO ACCELERATION (LIKE CAR WAS NOT IN A GEAR). I PRESSED ACCELERATOR AND NOTHING HAPPENED, IT STAYED AT ABOUT 5.5K. I PUT CAR INTO N AND THE RPMS DROPPED TO ABOUT 1.5K, BUT CAR STILL NOT IN A GEAR SO IT WAS LOSING SPEED SO I MOVED TO BREAKDOWN LANE. PUT IT BACK INTO D AND IT AGAIN REVVED TO 5.5K, BUT STILL NO GEAR AND LOST SPEED. 3RD TIME: I WOULD TURN TO D AND IT WOULD TAKE ABOUT 3-5 SECONDS BEFORE IT CLUNKED INTO GEAR. CAR THEN SHUDDERED A BIT AS I PULLED OUT AND THEN IT GAVE THE SAME ERRORS AS BEFORE: SERVICE TRANSMISSION THEN PERFORMANCE SHIFTING NOT AVAILABLE ON THE DASH. IT ALSO GOT STUCK IN 4TH GEAR AGAIN SO I COULD NOT ACCELERATE PROPERLY. IT ALSO REVVED THE ENGINE RANDOMLY. IN FACT, I ALMOST SMASHED INTO MY GARAGE BECAUSE AS I WAS SLOWLY TURNING INTO MY GARAGE THE CAR SUDDENLY SURGED FORWARD (IMAGINE IN A MANUAL CAR, REVVING THE ENGINE AND THEN RAPIDLY LETTING OUT ON THE CLUTCH) AND I HAD TO SLAM ON THE BRAKES TO PREVENT IT FROM GOING INTO THE SIDE OF MY HOUSE. IF THERE WERE PEOPLE WALKING IN FRONT OF THE CAR AT A CROSSWALK, THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN HIT. THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE AND NOT SAFE. JUST AS MUCH I COULD EASILY GET INTO AN ACCIDENT WITH ANOTHER CAR, THE WAY THIS CAR IS BEHAVING. *TR

AFTER ONLY OWNING MY VEHICLE FOR LESS THAN 72 HOURS, AND DRIVING ABOUT 380 MILES, MY TRANSMISSION APPEARS TO HAVE HAD A COMPLETE FAILURE. I NOTICED IT DOWNSHIFTING VERY HARD AT A STOP LIGHT, THEN AGAIN A MILE OR SO DOWN THE ROAD. BY THE TIME I GOT TO ANOTHER STOP LIGHT, MY CAR DOWNSHIFTED SO VIOLENTLY IT SLAMMED ME INTO MY SEAT BELT AND SCARED ME BADLY. IT FELT AS IF THE CAR HAD SHIFTED IN PARK WHILE IT WAS STILL ROLLING FORWARD AT ABOUT 10 MILES AN HOUR. WHEN I ATTEMPTED TO ACCELERATE AWAY FORM THE LIGHT, THE CAR WOULD NOT UP SHIFT, SO I HAD TO LIMP IT INTO THE NEXT PARKING LOT AT 4K RPMS AT ABOUT 7 MPH. WHEN I PULLED INTO THE PARKING SPACE, THE VEHICLE WOULD NOT SHIFT INTO PARK. AFTER SEVERAL ATTEMPTS, THE CAR FINALLY SHIFTED OUT OF DRIVE INTO REVERSE, AND AFTER SEVERAL MORE ATTEMPTS, IT FINALLY SHIFTED INTO PARK ALLOWING ME TO TURN OFF THE ENGINE. WHILE I WAS NOT REALLY INJURED BEHIND A SLIGHT SORENESS FROM THE SEAT BELT, HAD I BEEN TRAVELING AT HIGHWAY SPEEDS WHEN THE VEHICLE DOWN SHIFTED INTO PARK, THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A SERIOUS ACCIDENT. *TR

I WAS ON A SLIGHT HILL (APPROX 10-15 DEGREES) STOPPED THE CAR AND PUT IT INTO PARK, PRESSED THE ENGINE START BUTTON TO SHUT OFF THE ENGINE AND OPENED THE DOOR TO EXIT. AS I LIFTED MY WEIGHT OUT OF THE CAR, IT BEGAN TO ROLL BACKWARDS, MY FOOT SLIPPED UNDER THE CAR BUT I WAS ABLE TO HIT THE BREAKS WITH MY OTHER FOOT. THINKING IT WAS SOMETHING I DID WRONG, I PULLED THE CAR BACK UP AND REPEATED THE SAME STEPS AND IT DID THE SAME THING AGAIN (THIS TIME WITH OUT MY FOOT). I WAS THEN THINKING, THIS IS A BRAND NEW 31K+ CAR - IT CANT BE DOING THIS SO I REPEATED A THIRD TIME AND IT HAPPENED AGAIN. I CALLED MY DEALER WHO INSTRUCTED ME TO SET THE EMERGENCY BRAKE ON PARK SELECTION ON MY RADIO AND TO BRING THE CAR IN IMMEDIATELY! ITS NOW IN THE DEALERS SHOP AS THEY ARE GETTING THE HEM AND HAW FROM CHRYSLER ON WHAT TO DO. I WANT THIS FIXED ASAP AS I AM LUCKY THE CAR DID NOT RUN OVER ME AND CRASH INTO THE CARS BEHIND ME. *TR

THE DAY I BOUGHT MY CAR I HAD PROBLEMS WITH BURNING SMELLS. I TOOK MY CAR BACK NUMEROUS OF TIMES AND THEY SAID MY BRAKES WERE BRAKING IN BUT ALL THIS TIME MY TRANSMISSION WAS LEAKING. IT TOOK 8000 MILES FOR THE DEALERSHIP TO FIND OUT I NEED A NEW TRANSMISSION. I GET MY CAR BACK WITH A NEW TRANSMISSION IN IT AND TWO DAYS LATER I HAVE ANOTHER LEAK IN MY NEW TRANSMISSION. *TR

TRANSMISSION SHIFTED TO NEUTRAL, SOUNDING LIKE GOING TO "LOW GEAR", AND SLOWING FAST. PRESSING THE GAS PEDAL DID NOT HELP AND AFTER A WHILE WENT INTO GEAR AGAIN BY ITSELF WITH A BANG. REALLY BAD SITUATION IF DRIVING ON A HIGHWAY. I TOOK THE CAR TO THE DEALER ON 19NOV14, THEY SAID THAT IT NEVER FAILED FOR THEM. SINCE THEN, THE CAR FAILED 6 TIMES, THE LAST ONE TODAY. THERE WERE TIMES THAT THE ONLY SOLUTION WAS TO STOP ON SHOULDER AND SHUT THE ENGINE OFF. I TOOK THE CAR TO THE DEALER ON 06FEB15, THEY DID A SOFTWARE FLASH FOR PCM (FLASH SOFTWARE 1), UPDATED CAR COMPUTER. ON 04MAR15 THE TRANSMISSION FAILED AGAIN WITH THE SAME PROBLEM. THIS TIME HAPPEN AGAIN ON A HIGHWAY, LUCKILY, NO CAR WAS CLOSE BEHIND. IT COULD BE DANGEROUS IF THIS HAPPENS AT FASTER SPEED IN A BUSY HIGHWAY. *TR

WHEN DECELERATING GOING DOWN A SLIGHT INCLINE MY FOOT WAS OFF THE GAS PEDAL. AS I APPLIED THE BRAKE PEDAL THE CAR SHIFTED BUT HAD ACCELERATED AS THOUGH I HAD PUSHED ON THE GAS PEDAL. I HAD TO FORCEFULLY APPLY THE BRAKES EVEN HARDER TO KEEP FROM HITTING THE CAR IN FROM OF ME. I HAVE NOTICED THIS ON OTHER OCCASIONS AS WELL BUT THIS TIME WAS DIFFERENT AS THERE WAS SOMEONE IN FRONT OF ME. IT IS AS THOUGH WHEN THE CAR SHIFTS FROM 7TH TO 5TH AND ALSO FROM 5TH TO 3RD THE CAR LUNGES FORWARDS. I HAVE ALSO NOTICES THE CAR WILL PULL ITSELF UP A HILL WITHOUT APPLYING THE GAS PEDAL WHEN APPROACHING A STOP SIGN AT THE TOP OF THE HILL. I AM CONCERNED I MAY INADVERTENTLY REAR END ANOTHER VEHICLE WITH THIS ISSUE. *JS