9.0
really awfulTypical Repair Cost:
no data
Average Mileage:
26,000 miles
Total Complaints:
2 complaints
Most common solutions:
- not sure (1 reports)
- turn car off, then back on (1 reports)
transmission problem
This problem may be covered under warranty. Ask your Dodge dealer.
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2008Apr 09
Avenger R/T 3.7L V6
- Automatic transmission
- 8,000 miles
On 3 separate occasions, my transmission would get stuck in 1st gear. The gear shifter would be in Drive. It would happen when I stopped at a red light and when I went to drive again, it wouldn't shift out of 1st gear. I found that if I pulled over, turned the car completely off, then turned it back on again, it would shift just fine. I took it to the dealer several times and they said nothing was wrong. They even test drove it when it was stuck in 1st gear and experienced it for themselves, but had no explanation. But they did "reset" the "computer" in my car and it seems to have solved the problem! Has anyone else experienced this?
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2009Jun 05
Avenger
I have a 2008 Dodge Avenger that I bought used about 6 months ago. It does have a good bit of miles on it because it was used as an Enterprise Rental Car before I bought it. Yesterday I went to leave work, cranked the car and it would not come out of park. I have heard the put your foot on the brake and try again, ok well I am not stupid I know how to take a vehicle out of park. Today I have been searching online and notice that a lot of people are having this same problem and I don't believe that it is something that we should have to be paying for if its happening with multiple vehicles. I had to have it rigged up so that I could drive for the weekend and when we called Dodge they said there was no recall on it so that we would have to pay for it to be fixed. This is completely ridiculous to be going on with a car that is a year or 2 old and it just happens randomly and people are getting stuck out in public with no way to move their vehicles unless they know somebody that can rig it up for them. Somebody said to call Chrysler Customer Service and talk to them to see if they could get it covered since its happening to so many vehicles but that doesn't do me any good when they are only open for 8-5 Monday through Friday and this happened on the weekend!
Sabrina C.
Ladson, SC, USA
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