Model years Chrysler Crossfire
2005 Chrysler Crossfire
Complaints about this year name ignition far more often than the model's other years — 8% of them, about 19× the usual rate of 0.4%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 434 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 52 |
| Involving a crash | 4 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| EPA combined | 18 mpg |
Also unusual this year
- fell out — 15% of complaints, 3× usual
- unglued — 11% of complaints, 3× usual
- window fell — 9% of complaints, 3× usual
What owners wrote
THE REAR WINDOW FELL OUT OF THE CONVERTIBLE TOP DUE TO POOR INSTALLATION AND ADHESIVE USED.
VEHICLE WAS STATIONARY AND THE REAR WINDOW FELL OUT. IT IS A CONVERTIBLE WITH APPROXIMATELY 33,000 MI. PARKED IN GARAGE YEAR ROUND.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Chrysler Crossfire 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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