CarComplaints.com Notes: This is a classic example of why you should avoid the first model year of a new car. Sure, it's new and shiny but there's going to be some growing pains.
Radio has had a problem from day 1. I feel the dealer brushed me off. It come and goes and has gotten progressively worse. I even ask for a new radio I WOULD PAY FOR and they ignored me. Told me to get Sirus Radio!
I bought the car at Smithhaven Dodge and had them install a remote start system. Not long after, the instrument panel began sporadically failing and then coming back on minutes later. Imagine driving at 55 mph when your gauges suddenly say you're doing zero, you have no gas, and your rpms are zero. Freaky! I researched this online and learned that the inaccurate gauges problem existed in other 2005 Magnums but I was told my car was not among the ones affected. The dealer's service department could never fix the problem. Well, now that the warranty on the remote start has run out, the dealer finally admitted it was improperly installed. They disconnected my remote start system to solve the problem of the failing instrument cluster panel. If I want a new remote start system, apparently I have to go buy a new one. This is not good business practice, especially since my spouse just bought another vehicle from them. I will not buy there again.
After filling up my tank I was resetting the trip odometer and started my car at the same time. It shorted out the cluster that has the odometer, trip odometer, and temp gauge. This cost $1200 ($950 part and $250 labor) to fix if you are outside the standard warranty, which of course we were. Just wondering if anyone else had this problem.
- ldp,
Long Beach, CA, US
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Radio has had a problem from day 1. I feel the dealer brushed me off. It come and goes and has gotten progressively worse. I even ask for a new radio I WOULD PAY FOR and they ignored me. Told me to get Sirus Radio!
- Gayle S., Lakeland, FL, US