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Vehicle stalls without notice in the middle of the road. Can't display hazard lights. Must return the car to park and wait a few minutes before restarting. Stalled in the middle of a turn on my wife when taking my toddler O preschool. This is a huge safety concern! this vehicle is going to get someone killed.
The car began shifting hard and had been taken to the dealership twice for that issue. They completed a software update which did not correct the issue. Today, 09-20-2018, the car was shaking violently when taking off and stopped moving. It was the shifted to park and would not go back to drive. It was then shut off and restarted and then shifted in to drive. It now shakes violently every time when taking off. It is scheduled for service again for the third time. There is about 42,000 miles on the car. The other issues occurred within the last month.
As I was in motion going about 20 mph with the car in drive (D), the car displayed a message as seen in the photo that states shift to park (P) to start. As, that message is displayed the steering wheel and the brakes lock up while the car is slowing down so you cannot shift the car to park until the car has come to a complete stop. Once the car comes to a complete stop, I shifted my car back to park and tried to restart the car. The car wouldn't restart right away. The engine and transmission would make a noise as if it were trying to start with the RPM's fluctuating to about 3 (3000 rpms) then go back to 0 then jump to 1 (1000 rpms) then back to 0 rpms where the engine would give out. I would have to wait a minute, while in the middle of traffic, then it would restart and run normally again. I called Chrysler corporate, due to the fact of having the whole transmission replaced while under warranty due to a transmission problem that grew after purchasing the car. Leslie from Chrysler gave me case id #: 34798487. I scheduled an appointment with darcars Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram of silver spring located on 12511 prosperity dr, silver spring, md 20904 to bring the car to get serviced and the issue looked at on August 7th 2018 at 10:45 am. I am currently waiting for a diagnosis of the issue to be addressed by the dealership. Please see pictures attached for more information.
Transmission is rough and unpredictable. Each shift and downshift is felt in the throttle(feels like engine braking). Transmission often causes the vehicle to accelerate or decelerate unintentionally. Shifting gears seems to take longer than it should. Transmission won't downshift sometimes when appropriate throttle is given. Braking is jerky due to the transmission rough down shifting. City driving in this car is uncomfortable and dangerous due to all the issues listed above.
The transmission is switching gears hard like it is skipping a gear. Seems like it is doing it between 1 & 3 or decelerating 3 to 1. it is worse during winter months. The jerk can be so hard sometimes.
- Silsbee, TX, USA
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I was coming to a stop at a stop sign, I was at about 15mph when the dash lights came on. The parking brake activated and the transmission dropped out of gear as I came to a skidding halt. Service transmission and service parking brake messages came up on the dash. Then wouldn't shift into any other gears even with the transmission override pulled. Luckily I was on a quieter road in my town.
The vehicle will stall while driving causing you to stop, place in park and restart. Upon trying to restart it struggles to turn over. Seems to be happening with the car has sat for awhile and is cold. The temp gauge shows nothing on it. I know the car will stall. If there is a line or more on the temp gauge on the dashboard it doesn't seem to have any issues. The vehicle is also not shifting from gear to gear properly. It seems to not catch when it should go to the next gear. The car will jerk.
2016 Chrysler 200. Consumer writes in regards to vehicle starting hard and rough, electrical issues and front passenger door shutting hard. The consumer stated the vehicle had multiple failures including the parking brake engaging on it's own, the accelerator pedal sticking, wiring systems, the air conditioner and transmission ruptured. The powertrain, control module, compressor, etc condenser was locked. The vehicle starts hard. There was a knocking noise on start up. The tire came off the vehicle while driving. While depressing the brake pedal the vehicle began to lurch forward. The lower ball joint failed. There was body a rim damage to the vehicle. The repair shop failed to repair the vehicle properly.
Vehicle has a hard time changing gears. When speeding up vehicle jerks hard and makes loud noice in tranmission area. Passengers have noticed how it struggles to change gears. Have taken into to dealer but they say they can not replicate problem. It also seems to surge randomly when coming to a stop. Afraid I'll hit car in front of me. Also dealer not able to repair.
A few times pulling out into the traffic the car would fail to accelerate properly almost causing an accident. Also, some times while driving the car seems as if its dying or loosing power. It is also rattling when I crank it up. The other thing is that the transmission while accelerating seems to take a while to switch gears and then the car jerks really hard when it finally shift gears. I've taken it in to the dealership and they just said that they checked it and cant find anything wrong but that they have had similar complaints but that "its just the fact that the car is a 4 cylinder." It's very scary pulling out into traffic.
Transmission is slipping and can't seem to get into gear while driving and getting to freeway speeds can't reach a max of 55mph. Have had the car completely stall out on the freeway and put itself into "neautral" while at freeway speeds. Maintenance airbag lights frequently coming on. Chrysler can't seem to find a fix to the issue on why this car is doing what it has been. They keep saying ithe issue is fixed when publicly there is no real fix to the issue and they don't know how to fix the re accruing problem. Little to say, I am deathly afraid of driving this vehicle even down the street to my local grocery store. I work too hard and pay to much for my first brand new car to be having issues like these. I really wish Chrysler would recall all of these vehicles already before someone ends up loosing a life over a faulty lemon of a vehicle.
As I travel down the highway going about 50 to 60 mile an hour sometime the car jake's real hard into gear and also when I come to a complete stop and take off again going about 5 to 10 mph it shifts hard again.
Bought new still under bumper to bumper warranty at about 24000 miles while driving the car entering the highway from the access road at approximately 37mph my vehicle just shut off almost as if had rebooted like a computer the wheel did not lock up first warning light read "airbag failure" then right after my parking/emergency brake light came on then tire pressure all while my shift knob flashed "P" if it wasn't a backup on the highway I would have been hit and caused a major pile up luckily I was able to engage the hazards and drift one lane over to the break down lane with no power to the brakes I had to press harder as I made it over to the side all of those lights went off, I was able to restart the car and then the engine light came on before I made it to my appointment at the dealer the engine light had gone off too. They could not recreate nor can tell me for sure what caused the failure
Went to a store with a heavily sloped parking lot. Approximately 15 to 20 degrees. Parked car and went in side, returned to the car, started, and placed car in reverse, looked behind me for pedestrians and notice some people down a little ways.. proceeded to carefully pull out of the slopping parking space in reverse. Applied slight pressure to brake pedal to shifted car into drive. Removed foot from brake to apply foot to gas pedal with a little more pressure than usual due to the slop, to keep car from rolling backwards.. the car keep rolling in reverse due to the declining slop of the parking lot. Car did not engage into drive and the engine revved up to high rpms and if not for a fast reaction from me returning my foot to brake after realizing what was going on, I could of easily ran into the people that I noticed earlier. Not good! when I put my foot on the gas peddle to stop the car, the car went into gear and the car shook violently due to the high rpms. The people in the parking lot were also startled. This is the primary car for my wife and I asked her if the car has not gone into gear before. To my astonishment she said once. This car now sits in the garage awaiting the Chrysler dealer to pick it up 27,997 miles. This kind of problem could easily do harmful bodily injury to a pedestrians or my wife..
Vehicle lost power while pulling into traffic. 2016 Chrysler 200 S with 2614 miles...engine was warm. I stepped on the gas and lost all power (electrical), followed by engine stall behavior, power loss, stall behavior, then transmission knob light flashes "D" and instrument cluster says to select gear again. Was nearly rear ended and/or T-boned by oncoming traffic. Dealer performed 4 flash updates today.
Bought this 2016 Chrysler 200 S 4 cyclinder in July 2016 with only 4900 miles on it. Car was a dealer program car still under factory warranty. Today, 8/22/2016 at 6157 miles the car stalled while my teenage sons (3 of them) were driving on city streets to school (this is the car they drive everyday). The car stalled while driving three separate times losing all power with a message in the dash reading "shift to P". once shifted to park the car did start but only after making an odd noise while pushing in the ignition button. Needless to say this is extremely dangerous to have a car lose power while on the road especially with new teenage drivers. Bought this car in large part because of its safety ratings but this clearly is the exact opposite of safe. I will take to dealer in the morning to see what they say. Lots of other complaints about same issue although most seem to be with the 2015 not 2016. Nonetheless, how can one feel safe again putting their children behind the wheel? no idea what caused this issue. The drivetrain does not shift smoothly either particularly when transitioning from reverse to drive when coming to complete stop.
The gear shift can be easily and accidentally knocked into reverse park or neutral while driving and wjrhout needing to apply brake. I was driving and my cellphone slid out of the cellphone mount and hit the knob and threw my into park while driving on the freeway at high 60 mph I was fast enough to move it back over to drive but it could have caused an accident or damage to the vehicle. This type of thing has happened on more than one occasion I accidentally put it in reverse while driving thinking I was moving the fan knob down at night while driving. Also my friends son put my car into park while adjusting the temperature as well. You should never be able to move the gears so easily or in reverse or park without brake or pushing the knob down or something terribly unsafe!! all of the times this has occurred I was driving also there gave been times I thought my car was in park but was not was actually in reverse very dangerous
I was stopped at a red light, when the light turned green I stepped on the accelerator to go and could not move!! the car refused to shift! I looked down to check and make sure it was in drive and it was! I was nearly rear ended, people had to drive around me. It took around 20 to 30 seconds for my vehicle to shift into gear and move forward. While trying to move forward it revved to around 5,000 RPM. I have a child with me. What would happen if someone rear ended us? I know Chrysler has numerous issues with the transmissions to these vehicles and I am sorry but they should not be allowed on the road with problems like this!!
Thereally is a problem with the transmission and electrical system with this car. My car jerks everyday when shifting from park to drive and it hesitates. I took to the dealership for service and was told it is supposed to drive like that until the car is adjusted to my driving style. Also, onew day I was driving and out of nowhere in lose total power in the car. Took it to the dealer and they found nothing wrong. I have a 7 year old who rides with me everyday. This car is not safe.
I just bought this car in March of 2016 and has been in dealership over 9 times already for the alignment, tires already going bald and the transmission. I was driving one day down a street that has a 55mph speed limit and the car just died and lost all power it wouldnt go at all so I had to pull over and restart the vehicle finally it went then ever since then the car shifts very rough and jerks you and the dealerships keep telling me that its the way the car is supposed to drive but I know its not also the service transmission light came but the dealer says that codes were there to show which was odd to me also another issue with this car is sometimes when I put it in drive, reverse etc the electronic ebrake just comes which almost had me hit a few times now I have had this car 3 months now and its in the shop more than I can drive. I would say this car is unsafe and highly advise not to buy
- Hartville, OH, USA
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