9.3
really awfulTypical Repair Cost:
$350.00
Average Mileage:
67,667 miles
Total Complaints:
3 complaints
Most common solutions:
- replace radiator (3 reports)
cooling system problem
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2007May 16
Neon 2.4L
- Automatic transmission
- 60,000 miles
I was driving down a main street coming home from work when my transmission disengaged, and then came back, and it did it several more times before I came to a stop at the light. When the light turned green, I put my foot on the gas and nothing happened, I shifted to neutral and back to drive, nothing, three more times before the tranny engaged. It did this at EVERY stop I made until I got home. when I got home and opened the hood, I was very depressed to find the ENTIRE transmission Covered in tranny fluid. I called a few transmission places and got pricing for tranny replacement as when I described the problem and my findings under the hood, the consensus was that the pin that goes through the middle of the gears had been sheared and launched through the case thus destroying my transmission. Turns out that the guy couldn't find a hole. filled my tranny up and drove it, duplicating my problem. upon inspection again, he couldn't find where that pin could have come through the case... next they inspected the radiator to find that the Transmission cooler in the radiator has broken and leaked all my tranny fluid into the radiator, over to the overflow basin, and out on top of the tranny... a $500 fix instead of $1300-$2300 for a used or new tranny... still a massive pain in my ass.
2008Jul 08
Neon SXT
- Automatic transmission
- 76,000 miles
a month after I fixed the breaks, the damn radiator apparently broke. the neon was leaking really bad and I guess if i had driven it any further it would of cost problems in the transmission. It has been three days and I cannot go anywhere and its our only family car. I am starting to not trust this car.
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2009Jun 05
Neon ES 2.0L
Another Neon Radiator Failure, My 2002 went Last year at 69000 and now my 2003
at 67000 went, Transmission fluid on the driveway, milky looking trans fluid on the trans dipstick. How Chrysler gets away with this I'll never know. Why the internal trans cooler
consistantly fails is something I'd like to know.
ryoung6179
Lyndhurst, OH, USA
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