2012 DODGE AVENGER Complaints

THE PASSENGER SIDE ONLY BLOWS COLD AIR WHEN THE HEAT/DEFROST IS ON. THIS CAUSES MY PASSENGER WINDOW TO NOT DEFROST. THIS HAPPENS NO MATTER IF THE CAR IS AT IDLE OR WHILE DRIVING. THE PASSENGER SIDE WILL ONLY BLOW COLD AIR. THE DRIVER SIDE HEAT/DEFROST WORKS FINE. I HAVE BEEN TOLD IT'S ANYTHING FROM AN ACTUATOR TO THE HEATER CORE. I LIVE IN A STATE WHERE WE HAVE COLD WINTERS AND FREQUENT SNOW. THIS IS A SAFETY ISSUE AS IT IMPAIRS MY ABILITY TO SEE MY PASSENGER SIDE MIRROR, ETC.

AC STARTS TO ONLY BLOW COLD AIR ON ONE SIDE OF THE CAR, THEN NO HEAT AT ALL. DEFROST STOPS WORKING AT THIS POINT. VERY DANGEROUS WITH SNOW/ICY CONDITIONS WHERE WINDSHIELD FROSTS OVER. MAY BE THE DOOR ACTUATOR OR HEATER CORE.

RECURRING HEATER PROBLEM WHERE THERE IS SOME HEAT ON DRIVER'S SIDE AND NONE ON PASSENGER SIDE. HAD CAR IN 3 TIMES TO FLUSH HEATER CORE TO TEMPORARILY FIX PROBLEM. THIS IS AN APPARENT MANUFACTURER DEFECT THAT CANNOT BE RESOLVED WITH REGULAR MAINTENANCE OR REPAIRS. A NEW HEATER CORE IS THE ONLY SOLUTION AND THIS SHOULD BE COVERED BY DODGE SINCE IT IS A KNOWN MANUFACTURER DEFECT WITH THE PLATING IN THE SYSTEM COMING LOOSE AND PLUGGING THE HEATER CORE.

HEATER CORE PLUGGED DESPITE FOLLOWING COOLANT SERVICE IN THE OWNERS MANUAL. SYMPTOM WAS BARELY WARM AIR FROM DRIVERS SIDE AND COLD AIR FROM PASSENGER SIDE VENTS. REPAIRED AT A COST OF $1800 IN JAN 2018. IN FEB 2019 THE SYMPTOMS HAVE RETURNED. NO HEAT IN THE CAR CAN BE A HAZARDOUS SITUATION IN THE NORTHERN STATES WHERE TEMPERATURES HAVE REACH LIFE THREATENING LOWS IN RECENT WEEKS.

THROTTLE CONTROL LIGHT COMES ON AND VEHICLE LOSES POWER...COULD CAUSE AN ACCIDENT.

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2012 DODGE AVENGER. WHILE DRIVING AT UNKNOWN SPEEDS, COLD AIR EMERGED FROM THE PASSENGER SIDE VENT INSIDE THE VEHICLE. ALSO, THERE WAS NO HEAT COMING FROM THE FLOOR VENTS. THERE WERE NO WARNING INDICATORS ILLUMINATED. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO FREEDOM CHRYSLER DODGE JEEP RAM BY ED MORSE (815 E CAMP WISDOM RD, DUNCANVILLE, TX 75116, (972) 427-4019) WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT THE OIL COOLER NEEDED TO BE REPLACED AND THE RADIATOR WAS CLOGGED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT CONTACTED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 126,135.

TOLD HEATER CORE WAS BAD AT 57,000 MILES BY DEALERSHIP DUE TO NO HEAT ON PASSENGER SIDE BUT HEAT ON DRIVER'S SIDE AND IS A KNOWN MANUFACTURE DEFECT IN THIS CAR. CAR IS VERY WELL MAINTAINED.

MY CAR ONE DAY JUST STARTED BLOWING COLD AIR WHEN MY HEATER IS ON. I TALKED TO THE DEALER SHIP AND SAID IT WAS A ACTUATOR THAT HAD GONE OUT. I MENTIONED TO THEM ABOUT SEEING ONLINE THAT A SOME OTHER AVENGER OWNERS WHERE HAVING THE SAME ISSUE AND THAT IT WAS CAUSED BUT SAND AND METAL FLAKES LEFT OVER FROM CASTING FILLING UP THE HEATER CORE AND RADIATOR. AFTER MY SECOND TRIP BACK TO THE DEALER FOR THEM TO LOOK AT IT THEY TOLD ME THAT MY HEATER CORE WAS BURNT UP AND NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. I TOOK IT TO A RADIATOR SHOP AND ASKED FOR A SECOND OPINION AND WAS TOLD THAT AFTER LOOKING INTO THE PROBLEM AND LOOKING AT THE HEATER CORE THAT IT WAS NOT BURNT UP AND THO IT COULD USE A GOOD FLUSHING WAS NOT THE ISSUE.

HEATER CORE IS BLOCKED WITH CASTING SAND FROM ENGINE MANUFACTURING PROCESS MAKING IT UNSAFE TO DRIVE DUE TO INOPERABLE DEFROST OR HEAT. WINDSHIELD ICED OVER WHILE DRIVING VEHICLE.

I WAS ON A HILL ABOUT TO TURN ONTO THE FREEWAY WHEN MY VEHICLE TURNED OFF/STALLED. I WAS MOVING ABOUT 10 MILES PER HOUR AND WHEN I WENT TO TURN RIGHT I FOUND IT DIFFICULT TO MOVE THE STEERING WHEEL, AT WHICH POINT I REALIZED MY VEHICLE HAD STALLED. THIS IS THE THIRD TIME I HAVE HAD THIS ISSUE WITH MY VEHICLE WITHIN THE LAST YEAR.