2015 Chrysler 200
Complaints about this year name transmission far more often than the model's other years — 21% of them, about 5× the usual rate of 4.3%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 1,983 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 335 |
| Involving a crash | 99 |
| Involving a fire | 24 |
| Recalls | 8 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 23 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- transmission — 21.4% of this year's complaints, against 4.6% across the model's other years (4.7×).
- neutral — 11.4% of this year's complaints, against 1.7% across the model's other years (6.6×). Owners wrote it as: neutral, shifted, shifted neutral.
- shift — 11.5% of this year's complaints, against 2.7% across the model's other years (4.2×).
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
Also unusual this year
- shift — 11% of complaints, 6× usual
- neutral — 10% of complaints, 6× usual
- electrical — 14% of complaints, 3× usual
What owners wrote
SINCE I PURCHASED MY CAR IN 2017, I HAVE HAD CONSISTENT ISSUES WITH THE TRANSMISSION SHIFTING ABRUPTLY INTO NEUTRAL AND SURGING, AS WELL AS THE DASH BOARD ELECTRICAL FLASHING AND GOING VERY DIM. I DO NOT FEEL SAFE IN THIS CAR! I NEED YOUR HELP AS I CANNOT AFFO…
Emergency break on an off working parking pawl becomes dislodged and transmission to where it is shifting into neutral unexpectedly or shifting into park, which could be a potential rollaway which it has. Also back shocks and struts in the rear. Detaching Etc.…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 18V332000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 16V529000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 15V470000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 15V461000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 16V114000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 15V090000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 14V480000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 14V392000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Chrysler 200 was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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