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Transmission: Metal shavings was found in the transmission gear. This made it difficult to shift transmission into a gear. Also, engine lifters went out & had to be reinstalled; and carbon had built up in the engine. Causing it to stall whenever vehicle accelerated from a stopped position.
Hood supports do not hold hood open and it drops down on your head when your working on the engine. Torque converter shutter while travelling at highway speeds. They have replaced the torque converter 3 times and the whole transmission once. This is a design defect in the torque converter and has never been corrected or improved by Dodge.
- Douglasville, GA, USA
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Over several weeks I noticed an intermittent problem with my automatic transmission. It would "lunge forward" and then default to the "limp home" mode (3rd gear). The problem became more serious a few days ago, when it reset into 1st gear or neutral while driving. Given the more urgent and possibly dangerous situation I took it to my Dodge dealer. The transmission must be overhauled. Chyrsler is willing to pay for the parts ($950), however I am stuck with the labor ($1000). Investigation at another internet site suggests that many owners of '94 and '95 Intrepids have experienced a similar problem. I believe that this defect may warrant a recall. It is interesting that chysler is willing to pay for the parts, this suggests to me some admission of a system defect. If it is a known and widespread defect, why am I still required to pay the labor costs to correct it?
Automatic transmission needs overhauling/replacement. Transmission slips out of gear when downshifting and often does not come out of gear when attempting to stop, nearly causing rear end collision with car in front. Dealer reports that they have repair "hundreds" of identical failures, and that Dodge has changed parts to assure good repair. However, Dodge offers no assistance toward $1700 repair nor has issued a recall. Help!!!
When driving the reverse gear is gone, hard to shift. Vehicle is at dealershiip at this time for diagnosis of the transmission.---please add VIN.#---please.
When coming to a complete stop and before vehicle was warmed up in reverse gear, transmission jumped out of gear, causing the vehicle to move forward unexpectedly, which could have resulted in a collision.
Transmission has broken twice in my 1 1/2 years owning a Dodge Intrepid. On the first occasion, in the summer of 1998, car began to idle very high but moved extremely slowly when pushing the accelerator. On the second occasion, Jan. 1999, the car would begin to move extremely slow when pushing the accelerator. However, it did not idle high. After a few seconds, there would be a forceful kick from the back. The car would then accelerate normally. Also, the car would sometimes slip out from the drive gear into the reverse gear without notice. Furthermore, headlight switch became stuck and unable to turn into the on position.
The transmissions in these cars are crap. The seals being used are undersized causing the transmissions to fail. At first you dont even notice the problem but at about 50,000 miles the transmissions start to have trouble shifting into gear, up shifting and down shifting when cold. Chrysler is aware of this problem proven by the well written tech. Bullitens. Cars shouldn't have transmission problems at such low miles. If it was an isolated inccident I could accept it but its not and I'm having troublr believing that I'm expected to pay for shoddy work.
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- Detroit, MI, USA