2012 DODGE AVENGER Complaints

HEAT ONLY WORKS ON DRIVERS SIDE PART OF THE TIME. HAVE FOUND OUT THIS IS A MANUFACTURER DEFECT WITH THE HEATER CORE. WITH NO HEAT ON PASSENGER SIDE I CAN NOT DRIVE MY CAR IN THE WINTER. I CAN NOT DEFROST MY WINDSHIELD DUE TO NO HEAT AND IF I AM DRIVING IN SNOW OR FREEZING WET TEMPERATURES MY WINDSHIELD W FREEZES UP. THIS HAS BEEN A PROBLEM I HAVE HAD SINCE I BOUGHT THE CAR IN 2018. TOOK IT TO THE DEALERSHIP I BOUGHT IT FROM AND FOUND OUT IT WAS A MANUFACTURER DEFECT. FILED A COMPLAINT WITH DODGE AND WAS TOLD I WOULD HAVE TO BRING THE CAR IN FOR DIAGNOSTIC WHICH WOULD BE CHARGED TO SEE WHAT IS WRONG WITH IT. HAVE READ THAT MANY AVENGER OWNERS ARE HAVING THE SAME PROBLEMS WITH NO REAL FIX BY DODGE. IT IS A HEATER CORE DEFECT. WHICH IS OVER A $1,000 FIX THAT I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO PAY FOR DUE TO IT BEING A DEFECT FROM THE MANUFACTURER.

WHEN WE TURN ON THE HEATER IN THE CAR AND DOESN'T MATTER WHICH SETTING WE GET WARM AIR ON THE DRIVER SIDE AND COLD ON THE PASSENGER SIDE.

HEATER CORE ISSUE. REPLACED SEVERAL TIMES YET STILL GETTING BUILD UP CAUSING HOT AIR TO BLOW ON DRIVER SIDE BUT COLD AIR TO BLOW ON PASSENGER SIDE.

PASSENGER SIDE HEATER/DEFROSTER INOPERATIVE (BLOWS COLD AIR) CAUSING POOR VISIBILTY IN INCLEMENT AND COLD WEATHER. BEGAN SHORTLY AFTER PURCHASE IN SEPT 2017 AND HAS CONTINUED SINCE

NO HEAT ON PASSENGER SIDE. DOESNT MATTER IF THE CAR IS MOVING OR NOT. DOESNT ALLOW DEFROSTING VERY WELL.

MY CAR JUST STARTED DOING THIS. WITH THE HEAT ON, THE DRIVER SIDE BLOWS HOT AIR, PASSENGER SIDE IS COOL AIR. TOOK IT TO DODGE TODAY, THEY ARE SAYING MY COOLANT IS SLUDGY AND THEY NEED TO REPLACE THE RADIATOR, HEATING CORE, OIL FILTER HOUSING, AND FLUSH. FOR ALMOST $2900.

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2012 DODGE AVENGER. WHILE DRIVING 65 MPH, THE DEFROST WAS NOT FUNCTIONING PROPERLY FOR THE CENTER AND PASSENGER VENTS. THERE WERE NO WARNING INDICATORS ILLUMINATED. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO MADDOX MOTOR COMPANY (LOCATED AT 564 GLOVER RD, SIDNEY, NE 69162, (308) 254-5577) WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT THE HEATER CORE NEEDED TO BE FLUSHED. THE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED; BUT CONTINUED TO EXPERIENCE THE FAILURE. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT NOTIFIED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 68,000.

ACTIVE HEAD REST DEPLOYED WITHOUT BEING IN AN ACCIDENT. THE PLASTIC THAT HOLDS THE RETAINING PIN BROKE CAUSING THE HEAD REST TO DEPLOY

DODGE LEFT RESIDUAL MACHINING DEBRIS IN THE AVENGER ENGINE BLOCKS THAT FLOWS WITH COOLANT INTO THE HEATER CORE AND RADIATOR CAUSING THE HEATER CORE TO CLOG UP AND BLOCKS HEAT TO PASSENGER SIDE IN THE WINTER CAUSING UNSAFE OR UNFIT TO OPERATE IN COLD WEATHER.

MY HEATER IS NOT WORKING PROPERLY BLOWN COLD AIR ON PASSENGER SIDE ALREADY REPLACED BLEND DOORS THERE IS WATER IN MY DASHBOARD BUT THERE IS NO WATER LEAKING INSIDE CAR NO WATER COMES OUT FROM THE EVAPORATOR HOSE WHEN AC IS RUNNING EVERYTIME I TURN ON MY CAR U HEAR THE WATER GUSHING THROUGH OUT THE DASH HAVENT HAD A HEATER FOR A COUPLE YEARS ALREADY