1997 PLYMOUTH BREEZE Complaints

NOISE IN THE FRONT WAS REPORTED TO DEALER ON APRIL 27, 2000. CAR WAS PUT UP ON RACK, BUT NO DEFECT WAS FOUND BY MECHANIC AT THAT TIME. WHILE TURNING ONTO MAIN ROAD FROM SIDE ROAD, TIE ROD BROKE. REPAIRING MECHANIC ( NOT DEALER) NOTED EXCESSIVE WEAR OF TIE RODS, FOR MILEAGE ON VEHICLE, AND REPLACED BOTH SIDES. HAD I BEEN UP TO SPEED I COULD HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN A SERIOUS ACCIDENT. DEALER OF VEHICLE SUPPOSEDLY DID A SAFETY CHECK BEFORE WE TOOK DELIVERY. *AK

ON GOING PROBLEM WITH STALLING. VEHICLE WOULD STALL WHILE DRIVING OR WOULD NOT START OR RESTART INTERMITTENTLY. DEALER NOTIFIED, AND SOME REPAIRS WERE MADE ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, BUT PROBLEM STILL REOCCURRING. *AK

WHEN DRIVING AT 40-45-MPH ON WET PAVEMENT AND UPON COMING TO A GRAUDAL STOP WITH FOOT DEPRESSED ON THE BRAKE PEDAL, PEDAL TRAVELED TO THE FLOORBOARD, CAUSING EXTENDED STOPPING DISTANCE. CONSUMER HAS CONTACTED DEALER. DEALER STATED ENTIRE ABS BRAKE SYSTEM NEEDED REPLACING. PLEASE PROVIDE ANY FURTHER DETAILS. *AK

RECALL 97V201000/LOWER CONTROL ARM. CONSUMER HAS CONTACTED DEALER ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, AND WAS UNBALE TO GET AN APPOINTMENT TO REPAIR VEHICLE. SEEKING NHTSA HELP IN THIS MATTER. *AK

VEHICLE EXPERIENCING PROBLEM WITH OIL LEAKAGES; TOWED VEHICLE TO AN INDEPENDENT REPAIR SHOP. CONSUMER WAS INFORMED OF A BLOWN HEAD GASKET. HEAD GASKET WAS REPLACED BY DEALER ON 26 AUG 199898 AT 32,000 MILES. CURRENTLY, PROBLEM REOCCURRED, AND DEALER REFUSED TO REPAIR UNLESS CONSUMER PICKS UP THE CHARGES. *AK *ML

DURING WARM WEATHER, FRONT END NOISE AS YOU GO OVER ANY BUMP IN ROAD SIMILAR TO A SPRING NEEDING OIL. WAS TOLD SWAY BAR PROBLEM WITH NATIONAL BACKORDER AND UNAVAILABLE. DURING COLD WEATHER, GRINDING NOISE WHEN NEGOTIATING LEFT TURN- NOISE AT FRONT END. *AK

ON 1/5/00 I ARRIVED HOME AND AFTER GETTING OUT OF CAR HEARD HISSING NOISE AND POPPED THE HOOD AND THEN RELIZED THAT THE CAR WAS LEAKING OIL ALL OVER THE DRIVEWAY. TOOK CAR TO A TEXACO STATION AND THEY STATED THAT I HAD A CRACKED GASKET AND WOULD FIX FOR AN ESTIMATED COST OF $534.80 (FRONTIER CHEVY DEALER ESTIMATED 600.00, WAS NOT BOING TO BOTHER WITH THE PEOPLE I BOUGHT THE CAR FROM SINCE THEY ARE 1 HOUR AWAY AND AM VERY DISSATISFIED WITH THERE SERVIE). ACCORDING TO LEMON-AID UPDATES ON WEBSITE HTTP://LEMONAIDCARS.COM/HOME.HTM UNDER THE NOVEMER 1999 SECTION SECTION 2 STATES THAT SERVICE BULLITON NUMBER 09-05-98, THEY HAVE KNOW ABOUT THIS PROBLEM FOR PAST 16 MONTHS. ADDITIONALLY PER ODI ID 704054 SOMEONE ELSE HAS HAD THE EXACT SAME PROBLEM. HOW CAN I GO ABOUT TRYING TO HAVE THEM PAY FOR THE NEW GASKETS AND MANHOURS THAT I HAD TO PAY FOR BECUASE OF THERE POOR PRODUCT. COULD I SUE THEM IN SMALL CLAIMS COURT? *AK

ENGINE HEAD GASKETS HAVE BLOWN OUT, CAUSING OIL AND COOLANT TO LEAK FROM THE VEHICLE . DEALER HAS REPAIRED THE VEHICLE, AND THE MANUFACTURER HAS BEEN NOTIFIED.*AK

WHILE CONSUMER WAS DRIVING 35 TO 45MPHS THE CAR IN FRONT OF HER SLAMMED ON BRAKES. HOWEVER, WHEN CONSUMER APPLIED HER BRAKES, PEDAL WENT DOWN TO THE FLOOR, VEHICLE SKIDDED TO THE END OF THE LAND ON THE SHOULDER OF THE HIGHWAY. *AK

ENGINE CHECK LIGHT HAD CAME ON ,AND VEHICLE KEPT LOSING POWER DUE TO A BLOWN HEAD GASKET LEAKING OIL. DEALER REPLACED HEAD GASKET TWICE BEFORE. HOWEVER, ENGINE IS LOSING POWER AGAIN. *AK