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The contact owns a 1999 Chrysler Sebring. While driving in reverse, the vehicle suddenly accelerated to an extremely high speed. The contact crashed the vehicle into the passenger side of another vehicle. A police report was not filed and there were no injuries. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The speed was unknown. The failure mileage was 155,000.
The contact owns a 1999 Chrysler Sebring. The contact was driving approximately 5 mph when the vehicle abnormally accelerated until he turned off the ignition. The vehicle was not taken to have the failure diagnosed. The contact stated that the failure occurred once a few months prior to the most recent incident, but the vehicle was never taken to have the failure diagnosed. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure and current mileage was 111,000.
When the vehicle was in reverse, and the brake pedal applied, the vehicle accelerated at a high speed. The vehicle had gone out of control approximately 55 feet and hit the garage and two parked vehicles. The brakes did not respond because the vehicle did not shift into any other gear.
After shifing gear out of park into drive vehicle suddenly took off and hit another vehicle. Dealer and manufactrer were not notified at this time. The vehicle was totalled.
- Folkston, GA, USA
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The car is started and acceleration begins without any problems. Then within a fairly short time the car begins to decelerate and sometime completely stops. There were times when it jerked forward as the accelerator was pressed. It is currently at its 4th location which is also the 2nd dealership in trying to diagnose the problem. Last week the dealership said they were 100% sure they knew the problem and how to fix it. After they did the repair the problem was still there. I am waiting for them to contact Chrysler engineers. I am afraid to drive the car becasuse you never know when it will cut out and this could put me and my children in a very dangerous situation that could result in an accident. I have taken very good care of the car and expected it to last me another 1-2 years. This has been very upsetting as I do not have any other transportation and am a single parent.
While driving 60-70 mph the vehicle suddenly shifted to second gear, rpms went to red, and vehicle slowed down to 25-30 mph. Dealer replaced O2 sensor. This happened 2 more times, at this time vehicle is being repaired at dealership. Mechanic found metal flakes in transmission fluid, transmisson needed to be replaced.
Front air bags didn't deploy upon impact. Throttle got stuck while going in reverse at 5mph. Vehicle went to full throttle/going into drive and backing over a curve, jumping a 2 feet retainer wall & into a building. Dealer seemed to be concerned, but not aware of the problem.
Car was started and put in reverse to back up when the car lundged and accelatrated out of control in reverse striking another vehicle. When put into drive to pull away from vehicle, the car did the same out of control acceleration forward jumping a curb and striking a grocery store foundation and the vehicle proceeding partially into the store. We have witnesses that discribed the car totally out of control leaving the injured driver helpless. Suspect fuel system and automatic transmission failure. The incident occured in an approx 20-30 distance. The vehicle was a total. The dealer and Chrysler was contacted by both myself and state farm insurance Agency. No return call from chryler at present date for diagonositic check.
Consumer went to back out of parking space, put vehicle into reverse with foot on brake, and vehicle accelerated rapidly, hitting a parked vehicle. Consumer then put gear into drive, and vehicle accelerated forward, running into a grocery store. Brakes did not override the acceleration.
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- Des Moines, WA, USA