On Valentine's Day, 02/14/2009, while driving on a freeway in St Louis Missouri, heading towards a nice restaurant to celebrate the day, the car engine light came on, the car started to sputter and it was impossible to go faster than 15 miles an hour. The sudden drop in speed while in heavy fast moving traffic, was extremely dangerous trying to get out of traffic. It was extremely difficult to get the car to a safe place and try to get some help. After dying out in a church parking lot, called the Chrysler Dodge (800) number and they sent out a tow truck. The local Dodge dealerships were closed for the weekend, being after 4:30pm on a Saturday. We had to get a ride to the local airport, find a car rental place, then drive the 100 miles back home.

Bought this car used after my previous neon was stolen. I went with the same car cuz I loved my old neon and never had any problems in the 2 years that I owned it. When I got the car in 2008 it had 20,000 miles on it and was like new. Never had any problems with it until August of last year. It would only happen when I first started driving, once I got up to 2,000 rpm the check engine light would come on and it felt like it was going to stall out. I pulled over and turn car off, when I started it again it ran fine (light was still on). I took it in and mechanic wasnt able to find anything wrong with it (light goes off after 3 starts). It continued to happen and when I took it in w/ light on I was told it was the cam sensor. replaced that ($20). Car drove great for couple months and then it started again. Mechanic had car for a month and put a magnet on the cam sensor ($120). He said that if it doesn't work, the only other option is to replace the computer ($600+). I got the car back a week ago and it ran perfect until yesterday, on the freeway, going 65+ mph and the check engine light comes and it started stalling out!! Has anyone experienced this? I do not want to spend the 600+ for the computer if this is not the problem. The only code the car throws is for the stupid cam sensor. I am taking it in Thursday to replace the computer. If someone knows anything about this problem, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!! thanks.

When we first noticed the problem, I called my brother and told him what was going on, he said since it had been so cold latley, we live in Maryland maybe some of the brushes had gotten stuck in the starter, he said to kind of bang on it and I did, and with a few minutes it started up, so I was like ok seem so solve the problem, about a half n hour later my husband goes to drive the car to work, he gets to the end of the main street and with no warning, no lights or sounds, and the car cuts off. So he got out banged on the starter again and brought it home. We finally called our insurance company so we could have it towed to the dealer ship because it wouldn't start anymore, after running a diagnostics on it we found out that the computer in the car had died, and had to pay a little bit more then a $1,000 to fix it, and so far we havent had anymore problems I hope this helps with anyone going through the same problem.